Most godly prayers compiled out of Davids PsalmsMost godly prayers compiled out of Dauids Psalmes

Thou art wont very often (O almighty God) to punish thy faithful servants grievously,¹ to the ⟨image 226⟩intent they might thereby return unto thee with earnest and perfect repentance, which now experience teacheth us to feel in thy sacred Church by reason of these most troublesome times: for we that have been hitherto innumerable ways very ungrateful towards thee, and every where transgressed thy holy law and blessed commandments, are so oftentimes vexed with the fierceness of the cursed devil and his bondslaves, that we be enforced to cry unto thee out of the bottomless pit, and from the unmeasurable deepness of our adversities, requiring thee not to mark our heinous sins so severely. For if thou (O good god) wilt duly consider and justly punish the iniquities that we have committed (according to their just deserts) which of us shall be so blameless and holy, as he may be able to stand before thy justice? But, forsomuch as we right well know that thou art endued with exceeding great gentleness, we do both early and late look and wait for thy ready help. Although therefore our iniquities are very many in number, vouch thou safe (for thy most abundant goodness and infinite mercies sake) to redeem us ⟨image 226⟩from them all, so that we, being delivered from imminent perils and present calamities, may as well believe in thee only, as publish to the whole world that there is true and perfect redemption, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.