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

Thou deservest very great commendation for a number of excellent causes (O almighty God) and divers ways to be extolled with most noble praises: first and foremost thou art good, & thy name is marvellous pleasant and wonderful amiable. Moreover thou hast chosen us to be thy peculiar people, that is, & true Israel, who art of such an invincible force, as there is only not any creature, but also none other God at all that may be compared to thee in power. For thou only doest wondrous things in heaven, in earth, in the sea, and in ⟨image 235⟩the deeps and bottomless pit: thou also stirrest up and bridlest at thy will and pleasure, the flaming lightnings, boisterous winds, rainy showers, raging waters, and stormy tempests. Whose mighty puissance, the Egyptians, Amorites, and Canaanites have felt, when thou didst defend the children of Israel with thy accustomable clemency, and governedst them through an unspeakable loving kindness and wonderful mercy that thou didst extend towards them. Judge thou therefore thy faithful people, who hast been accustomed to rule the course of nature by such a wonderful means, and finally comfort thy beloved servants, have an especial regard, behold, and see (we humbly pray thee) the grievous calamities of thy sacred Church, neither deal with us according to our wicked & lewd deserts. We acknowledge verily (even from the heart) that we have led a life to much unbeseeming thy glorious name and our vocation, who do not now return unto dumb Idols (when we are thus grievously afflicted) being the works of mens hands, having as it were a mouth, eyes, and ears, and yet do they not speak,