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

¶ A prayer out of the .Cxxxix. Psalm.

¶ A prayer out of the .Cxxxix. Psalme.

¹Thy knowledge and wisdom (O most mighty God) is of such force, as thou perfectly knowest all mens words, deeds, and thoughts, who also understandest the imaginations of our minds before we utter them. For no man is able to conceive and evidently discern the great wisdom thou showest in making and forming of our bodies: if we were comparable to the swift course of the Sun, or did excel the quickness of the Morning, or might clime up to heaven, or go down to hell, there is no place but thou wouldst meet with us, who hast seen and most evidently perceived even from the first creation, the unshapen mass of our bodies with all the members thereof, when as yet there was none of them. Forsomuch therefore as thou seemest to be on all sides so wonderful, our earnest request is that thou wouldest (for thy famous honours sake) be at length highly reverenced and duly worshipped in thy blessed Church. Let the wicked and such as have thy glorious name in great contempt, depart thence: but try thy faithful servants, we humbly beseech thee, and search them thoroughly out, to the ⟨image 241⟩intent they may know themselves: that if perhaps they swerve from the true & right way (as it often so happeneth by human infirmity) bring thou them again of thy great goodness, into the straight path of perpetual felicity, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

¹THy knowledge and wisdome (O most mightie God) is of such force, as thou perfectly knowest all mens wordes, déedes, and thoughts, who also vnderstandest the ymaginations of our mindes before we vtter them. For no man is able to conceyue and euidently discerne the great wisdome thou shewest in making and fourming of our bodies: if wée were comparable to the swift course of ye Sunne, or did excell the quickenesse of the Morning, or might clime vp to heauen, or go downe to hell, there is no place but thou wouldst méete with vs, who hast seene and moste euidently perceyued euen from the first creation, the vnshapen masse of our bodies with all the members thereof, when as yet there was none of them. Forsomuch therefore as thou séemest to bée on all sides so wonderfull, our earnest request is that thou wouldest (for thy famous honors sake) be at length highlye reuerenced and dulye worshipped in thy blessed Church. Let the wicked and such as haue thy glorious name in great contempt, depart thence: but trie thy faythfull seruaunts, we humbly beseech thée, and search them thorowly out, to the