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

An other prayer out of the same Psalm.

An other prayer out of the same Psalme.

Make hast to be present with us (O most mighty God) according to thy accustomed goodness, when we heartily invocate and call upon thee, least we be enticed by any means from thy sacred word and pure religion. Let the unfeigned prayers (which we pour forth) ascend into thy sight like a pleasant perfume, and a most acceptable sacrifice, although our sins do not deserve the fame. For we earnestly confess, even from the heart root, that we have very often inclined to most hurtful things, and not obeyed thee hitherto in word and with mouth, but have offended thee in that behalf also, and been more ready and hasty then needeth, to commit deadly wickedness, ⟨image 243⟩which is the only cause why thou doest now thus grievously rebuke and chastise us. But grant this (O good God) for thy exceeding great goodness and infinite mercies sake, that we may assuredly know these thy favourable chastisements to be the m•ere benefits of thy most fatherly good affection towards us, so that (when as they proceed from thy divine providence) we may both account and also esteem them more profitable, then if we enjoyed marvellous abundantly the love of the world and pleasure of ungodly persons: for our assured affiance is such in thee, as we know most certainly that it is thy accustomed use to help them (so that they crave the same at thy favourable hands) whose bones are both broken a sunder and also dispersed in such wise, as though they should go down out of hand into hell. Forsake not therefore the Church (according to thy wonted manner) in these perilous days, at what time she is in most misery, but deliver her from the traps, snares, and nets of the ungodly, and let the wicked fall into their own wiles & pits, which they have made and digged, and not thy faithful people,