PRAYERS OF HOLI Father's, patriarchs, Prophets, judges, Kings, and renowned men and women of either testament.  

¶ The prayer of Moses to the Lord, for the sins of the people. Exod. 32.  
LORD, why waxeth thy wrath hot against thy people, which thou haste brought forth of the land of Egypt with a great power, and with a mighty hand? wherefore should the egyptians speak and say, he worketh craftily with them, even to rid them out of the world? Turn away thy fierce wrath, and have compassion over the wickedness of the people. Amen.   

¶ An other prayer of Moses unto the same. Exodi. 32.  
OH, this people hath sinned an heinous sin, & have made them golden gods, Either forgive them this offence, or else wipe me out of this book, which thou hast written. .   

¶ For the sin of the people what time they murmured, a prayer of Moses. Nume. 14.  
THe Lord is long ere he be angry and is full of mercy, suffering sin and trespass, and leaving no man innocent, which visitest the unrighteousness of the fathers upon the children, even upon the third & fourth generation. Be merciful I beseech the therefore unto the sin of this thy people, according unto thy great mercy, & according as thou hast forgiven this people, coming from Egipte even unto this place.   

¶ An other of Moses and Aaron for the people. Nume. 16.  
O Most mighty God of the spirits of all flesh, one man hath sinned, & wilt thou be wroth with all the multitude?   

¶ For the stubbornness of the people: the true preacher on this wise as Moses did, may make his prayer unto God. Deute. 9  
O Lord God, destroy not the people and thine inheritance which thou hast delivered through thy greatness and which thou hast brought out of the Egypte of this world. Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and jacob, and look not unto the stubbornness of this people, neither consider yet their wickedness and grievous offence, for it is thine own people & thine inheritance which thou hast challenged for thine own in thy great might & in thy stretched out arm. Am̄   

¶ The prayer of Solomon in the dedication of the temple of Jerusalem. 3. King. 8.  
BLessed be the Lord God of Israel, which hath fulfilled with his hand that he spoke with his mouth unto David my father, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like that in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, that keepest appointment & mercy with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts, which also hast kept covenant with thy ser●aunt david my father that thou promisedest him. Now then O Lord God of Israel, let thy word be stable, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father But in deed can God dwell on the earth Behold neither heaven, nor heaven above all the heavens are able to contain thee, how much less than this house that I have built: but look to the prayer of thy servant & his supplication. O Lord my God, give an ear unto the voice and prayer, which thy servant prayeth afore the this day And when thy people shall have sinned against thee (for there is no man that sinneth not) thou shalt be angry with them, yet if they turn again with all their heart, and do repent in their heart, making their prayer unto thee, saying, we have sinned, we have dealt unjustly, we have done wickedly, and so return again unto the with all their heart and all their soul, & make supplication unto thee: then thou shalt hear from Heaven, even from the firmament of thy seat their prayers and petitions, and shalt be merciful unto the sins of thy people, which have offended thee, and shalt show them justice and mercy for they be thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out of Egypte from the fournesse of yern and let thine eyes be opened to the prayer of thy servant, and unto the prayer of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them in all that they call unto thee for. Amen.   

¶ A prayer of Esdras for the sins of the people. 1. Esd. 9  
MI God I am ashamed, and dare not lift up mine eyes unto the my God for our wickedness is grown over our head, and our trespasses are waxen great unto the Heaven even from the time of our fathers, yea: and ourselves also have grievously sinned unto this day, and because of our wickedness, have we, and both our kings, and our priests be delivered into the hand of the Kings of the nations, into the sword, into captivity, into spoil, and into confusion of face, as it is come to pass this day. But now is there a little and so deign graciousness, come from the Lord our God, so that some of us are escaped, that he may give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may light our eyes, and give us a little life in our bondage. For we are bond men, and our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath inclined mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of the persians, that he should give us life, and promote the house of our God, and to set up the desolation thereof, and to give us an hedge in juda and jerusalem. And now o our God, what shall we say after this, for we have forsaken thy commandments, which thou haste commanded by thy servants & prophets, and said. The land whereunto ye go to possess it, is an unclean land, through the filthiness of the people of the lands, in their abominations, wherewith they have made it full of uncleanness on every side. Therefore shall ye not give your daughters unto their sons, and their daughters shall ye not take unto your sons, and seek not their peace & wealth for ever that ye may be strong, and enjoy the good in the land, and that ye and your children may have the inheritance of it for evermore. And after all this that is come upon us, because of our most naughty deeds and our great trespass: thou our God haste spared our wickedness & haste given us a deliverance as it is come to pass this day, to the intent we should not turn back, and let go thy commandments: neither be joined in matrimony with the people of these abominations, wilt thou then be wroth at us, till we be utterly consumed, so that nothing remain and till there be no deliverance? O Lord of Israel thou art righteous, for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day. Behold in thy presence are we in our trespass, for hereupon is there no standing before the.   

¶ The prayer of Nehemias for the sins of the people before the Lord. Nehem. 1.  
O Lord God of Heaven, thou great and terrible God, thou that keepest covenant and mercy with them that love thee, and observe thy commandments: let thine ears hearken, and thine eyes be open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray now before thee day and night for the children of Israel thy servants and knowledge the sins of the children of Israel, which we have committed against the. And I and my fathers have sinned also, we have been corrupt unto thee, in that we have not kept thy commandments, statutes: and laws, which thou commandest thy servant Moses. And they are thy servants and thy people whom thou hast delivered through thy great power and mighty hand. I beseech the Lord let thine ears bow down to the prayer of thy servant: and the prayer of thy servants: whose desire is to fear thy name. Amen.   

¶ A confession and solemn prayer of the Levites and of the church for sins with a rehearsal of the benefits of God. 2. Esd. 9  
Lord, thou alone haste made Heaven, and the Heaven of all heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is thereupon, the sea and all that is contained therein: thou givest life unto all, and the host of Heaven bow themselves unto the. Thou art the Lord God that hast chosen Abram & broughtest him out of Vr in chaldea and called'st him Abraham, and foundest his heart faithful before thee, & madest a covenant with him: to give unto him and his seed the land of the Canaanites, Hethytes, Amorites, Pheresites, jebusites, and Gergesites. Thou haste made good thy words, for thou art righteous, and haste considered the misery of our fathers in Egypte, and heard their complaint by the red sea: and showedst tokens and wonders upon Pharaoh: and on all his servants: & on all the people of his land For thou knowest that they were presumptuous and cruel against them: & so madest thou the a name: as it is this day. And the red sea diddest thou divide before them: so that they went thorough the mids of the sea dry shod. As touching their persecutors thou threwest them into the deep as a stone: in the mighty waters, and leddest thy people on the day time in a cloudy pillar: & on the night season in a pillar of fire: to show them light in the way that they went. Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai: and spakest unto them from heaven: and gavest them right judgements: true laws: good commandments and statutes: & declaredst unto them thy holy Sabbath and commaundedst them precepts: ordinances and laws: by Moses thy servant: & gavest them bread from heaven when they were hungry: & broughtest forth water for them out of the rock when they were thirty and promisedst them, that they should go in, and take possession of the land over which thou hadst lift up thine hand, for to give them. But they and our fathers were proud & hardnecked, so that they followed not thy commandments, and refused to hear, and did not remember the wonders that thou didst for them, but became obstinate and heady: insomuch that they turned back to their bondage in their disobedience. But thou my God forgavest, and wall gracious, merciful, patient, and of great goodness & forsookest them not. And though they made a molten calf and said: this is thy god, that brought the out of the land of Egypte, and did great blasphemies, yet forsookest thou them not in the wilderness, according to thy great mercy. And the cloudy pillar departed not from them, on the day time: to lead them the way, neither the pillar of fire in the night season, to show them light in the way that they went And thou gavest them thy good spirit to inform them, and with helpest not thy Manna from their mouth, & gavest them water when they were thirsty. Forty years long madest thou provision for them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing, their clothes warred not old, and their feet swelled not, and thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and thou divydest them according to their portions, so that they possessed the land of Sehon king of Esebon, and the land of Og the king of Basan. And their children multiplyedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land: whereof thou hadst spoken unto their fathers, that they should go into it, and have it in possession. And the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, even the Cananytes, and gavest them into their hand, and their kings and the people of the land, that they might do with them what they would. So they wan their strong cities: and the fat land, and took possession of houses that were full of all manner of goods, weiles digged out, vineyards, oylegardens, and many fructfull trees, and they did eat and were filled, and became fat, and lived in wealth through thy great goodness nevertheless they were disobedyente and rebelled against thee, and did cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets (which exhorted them so earnestly that they should convert unto thee) and did great blasphemies, therefore thou gavest them over, into the hand of their enemies that vexed them. And in the time of their trouble they cried unto thee, and thou heardest them from heaven, and through thy great mercy thou gavest them saviours, which helped them out of the hand of their enemies. But when they came to rest, they turned back agayde to do evil before the. Therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them. So they converted and cried unto thee, and thou heardest th●im from heaven, and many times haste thou delivered them according to thy great mercy, & testytiedst unto them, that they should turn again unto thy law. notwithstanding they were proud & hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned in thy laws (which a man should do and live in them) and turned the shoulder a way, and were stiffnecked and would not hear. And many years didst thou forbear them: and testifiedst unto them through thy spirit, even by the office of the Prophets, and yet would they not hear. Therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the nations in the lands. But for thy great mercy's sake thou hast not utterly consumed them, neither forsaken them for thou art a gracious and a merciful God. Now our God, thou great God, mighty and terrible, thou that keepest covenant and mercy, regard not a little all the travail that hath happened unto us, and our kings, princes, priests, prophets, fathers and all thy people sithence the time of the Kings of Assur unto this day. Thou art righteous in all that thou haste brought upon us, for thou haste done right. And we on our behalf have been ungodly, our kings, princes priests and fathers have not done after thy law: nor regarded thy commandments and thy earnest exhortations, wherewith thou hacte exhorted them, & have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and plenteous land which thou gavest them & they have not converted from their wicked works. Behold, therefore are we in bondage this day yea even in the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to enjoy the fruits and goods thereof, behold there are we bond men. And great is the increase of it unto the kings, whom thou hast set over us because of our sins & they have dominion over our bodies and cattle and we are in great trouble. And in all this make we a sure covenant, and write it, and let our princes, Levites and priests seal it.   

¶ A prayer of the church for sins Sapi. 15.  
THou (O our God) art sweet long suffering and true, & with mercy orderest thou all things Though we sin, yet are we thine for we know thy greatness. If we sin not, them are we sure that with thee we be allowed. For to know thee is perfect righteousness, yea to now thy righteousness and power, is the rote of immortality.   

¶ An other for sins. Hiere. 3.  
LO we are thine, for thou art the Lord our God, the hills fall, & all the high pride of the mountains, but the health of Israel standeth upon God our Lord. Confusion hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth up, yea their sheep and bullocks their sons & daughters. So do we also sleep in our confusion, and shame covereth us, for we and our fathers even from our youth unto this day have sinned against the Lord our God, and have not obeyed the voice the lord of our GOD.   

¶ The lamentation of Hieremie for the sins of the people. Hiere. 13.  
PIteously let me weep, and let the tears gusshe out of mine eyes. For the lords flock is taken, tell therefore the king and the rulers, humble yourselves, set you down on the earth, for the crown of your glory shall fall from your head The cities of the south be shut up, and there is no man to open them All juda is carried away captive, so that none remaineth, lift up your eyes, and behold them that come from the North, where is the flock that was given thee, thy noble cattles, to whom wilt thou make thy moan, when he cometh upon thee for thou hast taught them thyself against thyself and made them masters over thee. Shall not sorrow come upon thee, as on a woman travaling with child? And if thou wouldst say in thine heart, wherefore come these things upon me? Surely even for the multitude of thy wickedness thy hinder parts and thy fe●e be discovered. If the man of Ind can change his skin, and the cat of the mountain her spots, then may ye that be exercised in evil do good. Therefore will I scatter you like as the stouble that is taken a way with the south wind. This shall be your lot and the portion of your measure, where with ye shall be rewarded of me, saeith the Lord, because ye have forgotten me, and put your trust in discritfull things. Therefore have I turned thy clothes over thy head & discovered thy thighs that thy privities might be seen, thy adveutry, thy deddely malice, thy beastliness, & thy shameful whoredom For upon fields and hills I have seen thy abominations, woe be to thee O Jerusalem, wilt thou not be clensen sith thou art yet unclean?   

¶ The prayer that Baruch prescribed unto the captives in Babylon for their sins. Batuch. 23.  
THE Lord our God is righteous and we with our fathers are brought to open shame, as it is to see this day. And as for these plagues that are come upon us already the Lord had devised them for us yet would we not pray unto the Lord our God, that we might every man turn from his naughty ways. So the Lord hath caused such plagues to come upon us, for he is righteous in all his works, that he hath commanded us, which we also have not done nor hearkened unto his voice, for to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he had given unto us. And now O Lord God of Israel thou that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypte with a mighty hand, with tokens & wonders with thy great power & out stretched arm and hast gotten thyself a name, as it is come to pass this day. O lord our God we have sinned, we have done wickedly, we have behaved our selves ungodly in all thy righteousness. Turn thy wrath from us (we beseech thee) for we are but a few left among the Heathen, where thou hast scattered us. Hear our prayers (O Lord) & our petitions, bring us out of captivity for thine own sake, get us favour in the sight of them which have led us a way, that all lands may know, thou art the Lord our God, and that Israel and his generation calleth upon thy name, O Lord look down from thy holy house upon us, incline thine ear and hear us. For the dead that be gone down to their graves, and whose souls are out of their bodies, give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteous making, but the soul that is vexed for the multitude of her sins, which walketh heavenly and weakly, whose eyes begin to fail, such a soul giveth the praise and righteousness unto the Lord. O Lord we power out our prayers before thee, and require mercy in thy sight, O Lord our God, not for any godliness of our forefathers, but because thou hast sent out thy warthe and indignation upon us according as thou didst threaten us by thy servants the Prophets saying. Thus saith the Lord, bow down your shoulders and necks, and serve the king of Babylon, and so shall ye remain still in the land that I gave your fathers, if ye will not do this, nor hear the voice of the Lord your God, to serve the king of Babylon. I shall destroy you in the cities of juda within Jerusalem and without, I shall also take from you the voice of mirth and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, and there shall no man dwell any more in the land, but they would not hearken unto the voice to do the king of Babylon service, & therefore hast thou performed thy words, that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets namely that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers should be translated forth of their place. And lo now are they laid out in the heat of the soon, and in the cold of the night, and they be dead in great misery, with hunger, with sword with pestilence, and are clean cast forth. As for the temple, wherein thy name was called upon, thou hast laid it waste, as it is to see this day, and that for the wickedness of the house of Israel & the house of juda, O Lord our God thou hast entreated us after all thy goodness & according to all thy great loving mercy, like as thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write thy law before the children of Israel saying. If ye will not hearken unto my voice, them shall this great multitude be turned into a very small people for I will scatter them abroad, notwithstanding I am sure that this flock will not hear me, for it is an hardenecked people but in the land of their captivity they shall remember themselves & learn to know, that I am the lord their God. When I shall give them an heart to understand, and ears to hear: then shall they praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name. Then shall they turn them from their hard backs, and from their ungodliness. There shall they remember the things that happened unto their fathers, which sinned against me. So will I bring them again into the land, which I promised with an oath unto their father's Abraham Isaac and jacob, and they shallbe lords of it, yea I will increase them, and not minish them. And I will make an other covenant with than: such one as shall endure, namely that I will be their God, and they shallbe my people, and I will no more drive my people the children of Israel out of the land that I have given them. And now O Lord almighty: thou God of Israel, our soul that is in trouble and our spirit that is vexed cry unto thee. Hear us (O Lord) & have pit upon us, for thou art a merciful God, God be gracious unto us for we have sinned before thee. Thou endurest for ever, should we then utterly perish? O Lord almighty thou God of Israel hear now the prayer of the dead Israelites and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and have not hearkened unto the voice of the Lord their God, for which cause these plagues hang now upon us Oh Lord remember not the wickedness of our forefathers, but think upon thy power and name now at this time, for thou art the Lord our God, and thee (O Lord) will we praise. For thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent we should call upon thy name and praise thee in our captivity and that we might turn from the wickedness of our forefathers that sinned before thee. Behold we are yet this day in our captivity, where as thou hast scattered us to be an abomination, curse, and sin, like as it hath happened unto our forefathers because of all their wickedness and departing from thee, even from thee that art the Lord our GOD. Amen.   

¶ The prayer of Daniel the prophet for his own sins and for the sins of the hole nation. Daniel. 9  
O Lord thou great and fearful GOD, thou that keepest covenant and mercy with them which love thee and keep thy commandments, we have sinned we have offended, we have been disobedient and have gone back, yea we have departed from the precepts and judgements, would never foloe thy servants the prophets, that spoke in thy name to our kings and princes, to our forefathers and to all the people of the land. O lord righteousness belongeth unto thee, and to us pertaineth nothing but open shame as it is come to pass this day unto every man of juda & to them that dwell at Jerusalem, yea unto all Israel whether they be far or nigh, through out all lands, wherein thou hast scatttered them because of the offences they did against thee. O lord unto us to our kings and princes, to our forefathers even unto us all that have offended thee, belongeth open shame. But unto thee (O Lord God) pertaineth mercy & forgiveness where as we on our behalf are gone back from thee, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he laid before us his servants the prophets, yea all Israel have transgressed & gone back from thy law, so that they have not hearkened unto thy voice, wherefore the curse & the oath, that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, against whom ●e have offended, is poured upon us. And he hath performed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, to bring upon us such a plague as never was under heaven, like as it is now come to pass in jerusalem, yea all this plague, as it is written in the law of Moses, is come upon us, yet we never made any supplication before thee, O lord, that we might turn again from our wickedness, & think upon thy troth. Therefore hath the lord made haste to bring this plague upon us, for the lord our God is righteous & all his works which he doth, and the cause hereof was that we would not hearken to his voice. And now O lord our God thou that with a mighty hand hast brought thy people out of Egypte to get thyself a name (as thou hast at this day) we have sinned O Lord and done wickedly against all thy righteousness. Let thy wrathful displeasure be turned away I beseech thee from the city Jerusalem thy holy hill, for through the heinous offence of us & our forefathers, is Jerusalem and thy people abhorred of all them that are about us. Now therefore O our God hear the prayer of thy servant, and let thy face shine over thy Sanctuary that lieth waste O my God incline thine ear and hearken, at least for thine own sake, open thine eyes and see, how we be spoiled, and the city desolate, which is called after thy name, for we do not cast our prayers before thee in our own righteousness, but only in thy great mercies, O lord hear, O lord forgive, O Lord considre, tarry not over long but for thine own sake do it O my God, for thy city and thy people is called after thy name.    

❧ PRAYERS IN time of adversity and for a man's own sins.  

¶ The prayer of jacob to be delivered from his brother Esau. Genesis ●●, 32  
O GOD of my father Abraham, and God of myfather Isaac, Lord which sayde●te unto me, return unto thy country & thy kindred, and I will do all well with thee, I am worthy of the least of all the mercies and truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant, for with my staff came I over this jordane, & now have I gotten two droves. Deliver me from the hands of my brother Esau, for I fear him lest he will come and smite the mother with the children. Thou saidst that thou wouldst surely do me good, and wouldst make my seed as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude.   

¶ The prayer of josua what time the people fled in the battle. josua. 7.  
AH Lord almighty wherefore hast thou brought this people over jordane, to deliver us in to the hands of the Amoretes, to destroy us. Would God we had adventured▪ & dwelt on the other side jordan, O Lord what shall I say when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies. Moreover the Canaanites and all the inhabitaunces of the land shall hear of it and shall come about us to destroy the name of us out of the world and then what wile thou do unto thy mighty name?   

¶ A prayer & an open confession of the people of Israel to be delivered from their enemies. judic. 10  
WE have sinned against thee, for we have forsaken our own God and have served Baalim: Lord we have sinned: do thou unto us, what soever please thee, and deliver us only at this time. Amen.   

¶ The prayer of Samson unto God, that he might revenge him against the Hhilistines. judic. 16.  
MI Lord almighty think upon me: and strengthen me at this time one●y O God that I may be avenged of my enemies, and for the loss of my two eyes: that I may revenge me once. Amen.   

¶ In wars against Turks and invaders, the prayer of king Asa. 2. Paral. 14.  
Lord, it is all one with thee to help them that have no power with few or with many. Help us O Lord our God, for we trust to thee, & in thy name be come against this multitude. Thou art the Lord our God: let no man prevail against thee. Amen.   

¶ An other of king josaphat. 2. Paral. 22.  
Lord God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven, & design'st not thou on all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is power and might, that no man can stand before thee. Art not thou our God which didst cast out that inhabitants of this land, before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy lover for ever? and they dwelled therein & have built the a temple therein unto thy name, & said: when evil cometh upon us, as the sword of judgement, pestilence or hunger: then if we stand before this house and before thee (for thy name is in this hous● and shall cry unto thee in our tribulation thou shalt hear & help. See therefore how proudly our adversaries now assault us. O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this company, that cometh against us, neither wot we what to do, but our eyes be unto thee.   

¶ The prayer of Nehemias what time the heathen defied him. Nehem. 4.  
Hear O thou our God, how we are despised, turn their shame upon their own head, that thou mayst give them over unto despising in the land of captivity. Cover not their wickedness, & put not their sin from thy presence, for they have laughed to sconrne the builders.   

¶ If God send thee trouble either for a punishment of thy sins, or to prove thy patience therewith. Pray thus. Tobia. 3.  
O Lord thou art righteous, and all thy judgements are true, yea all thy ways are mercy, faithfulness & judgement. And now O Lord be mindful of me: and take no vengeance of my sins: neither remember my misdeeds, neither the misdeeds of my elders: for we have not been obedient unto thy commandments therefore are we spoilt brought into captivity: into death, into derision and shame unto all nations: among whom thou haste scattered us. And now O Lord thy judgements are great: for we have not done according to thy commandments: neither have we walked innocently before thee. And now O Lord: deal with me according to thy will, and command my spirit to be received in peace: for more expedient were it for me to die: then to live.   

¶ The prayer of Manasses king of juda, when he was in prison, for remission of sins, and for God's favour, and deliverance. 2. Paral. 36  
O Lord almighty, God of our father's Abraham, Isaac, & jacob: and of the righteous seed of them: which haste made heaven & earth with all the ornament thereof: which haste ordained the sea by the word of thy commandment, which hast shut up the deep, and hast sealed it for thy fearful and laudable name: dread of all men and honourable before the face of thy virtue, the fierce anger of thy threatening is importunate heavy to sinners. But the mercy of thy promise is great and unsearchable: for thou art the Lord God most high above all the earth: long suffering and exceeding merciful, and repentant for the malice of men. Thou Lord after thy goodness hast promised repentance of the remission of sins: and thou that art the God of the righteous: haste not put repentance to the righteous Abraham, Isaac, and jacob, unto them that have not sinned against thee, but because I have sinned above the number of the sands of the sea, & that mine iniquities are multiplied. I am humblied with many bands of yern. And there is in me no breathing. I have provoked thine anger & have done evil before thee in committing abominations & multiplying offences, & now I bow the knees of my heart requiring goodness of the Lord. I have sinned Lord I have sinned and know mine iniquity, I desire thee by prayer O Lord, forgive me, & destry me not with mine iniquities neither do thou always remember my evils to punish them, but save me which am unworthy after thy great mercy and I will praise thee everlastingly, all the days of my life, for all the virtue of heaven praiseth thee, and unto thee belongeth glory world without end. Amen.   

¶ The prayer of judith for the deliverance of her country from the tyrant judith. 9  
O Lord God of my father Simeon, which gavest him a sword for a defence against the enemies, that used violence & wilfulness and that ravished thy virgin and put her to dishonesty. Thou that gavest their wives into a prey, & their daughters into captivity, and all their prey for a spoil unto thy servants, which bore a zeal unto thee, help me a poor widow. O Lord my God, I beseech thee, for thou hast done all things even from the beginning. And look what thou hast taken in hand and devised, it evermore came to pass: for all thy ways are prepared, & thy judgements are done in thy everlasting foreknowlage. O look now upon the armies of the Assyrians, like as it was thy pleasure sometime to look upon the host of the Egyptians, when they being weaponed, persecuted thy servants: and put their trust in their charets, horsemen, and in the multitude of their men of war. But thou lookedst upon their host casting a thick darkness before them: and when they came into the deep, the waters overwhelmed them, Even so Lord let it go with these that trust in the power and multitude of their men of war: in their charettes, arrows, and spears, and know not that thou only art our God: which destroyest wars from the beginning and that thou art the Lord, O lift up thine arm now: like as ever from the beginning, & in thy power bring their power to nought: cause their might to fall in thy wrath. They make their boast that they will defile and unhallow thy Sanctuary: waste the tabernacle of thy name and cast down the horn of thine altar with their sword. Bring to pass O Lord: that the pride of the enemy may be cut down with his own sword that he may be taken with the snare of his eyes in me, and that thou mayst smite him with the lips of my love: O give me a steadfast mind: that I may despise him and his strength, & that I may destroy him. This shall get the an everlasting memorial: if the hand of a woman overthrow him, for thy power (O Lord) standeth not in the powir of men: neither haste thou any pleasure in the strength of horses There was never proud person that pleased thee, but in the prayer of the humble and meek hath thy pleasure been evermore. O thou God of heavens: thou maker of waters: and Lord of all creatures: hear me poor woman calling upon thee: and putting my trust in thy mercy. Remember thy covenant, O Lord: and minister words in my mouth, and stablish this device in my heart, that thy house may continue still in holiness, and that all the heathen may know & understand that thou art God, and that there is none other but thou.   

¶ An other prayer of judith whiles she went about to slay the enemy Holofernes judith. 13.  
STrengthen me (God of Israel) and have respect unto the works of my hands in this hour like as thou haste promised, & granted that by thee I may perform the thing which I have devised thorough the belief that I have in thee, Oh strengthen me I beseech thee at this hour.   

¶ The prayer of Mardocheus in the pursure of Haman for all the jews nation. Aester. 13.  
O Lord, thou valiant and mighty king (for all things are in thy power) if thou wilt help and deliver Israel, there is no man can withstand thee: for thou haste made both heaven and earth: thou art Lord of all and there is none can resist thee O Lord. Thou knowest all, thou wottest Lord it was neither of malice nor of presumption, neither for any desire of glori that I would not how down myself, and worship the most proud Ha name, for I would gladly if it might have turned Israel to good, have kissed even his footsteps, but I feared lest I should have given God'S glori unto a man, & because I would worship none but only thee. And therefore O Lord, thou God and king have mercy upon thy people, for they ymagen how to bring us to nought, ye their desire is full set to destroy and overthrow the people that hath ever been thine. Oh despise not thine own good which thou haste delivered and brought forth of Egypte: even for thine own cause. Hear my prayer, be merciful to thy people, whom thou hast chosen for an heritage to thyself. Turn our complaint & sorrow into joy, so as we may line. O Lord, and praise thy name, O Lord, suffer not the mouths of them that praise thee to be destroyed.   

¶ The prayer of queen Hester for herself and all her country men. Hester. 13.  
O My Lord: thou only art our King, help me a desolate woman: which have no helper but thee, for my misery and destruction is hard at mine hand: of a child. I learned of my father, that thou tookest up Israel out of all peoples and our fathers out of all their progenitors: that they should be thy perpetual inheritance: and look what thou didst promise them, thou hast made it good unto them. Now Lord we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies, because we worshipped their gods: Lord thou are righteous, nevertheless, they are not satisfied that they oppress us with most heavy thraldom, but also imputing the strength of their hands unto the power of their idols, they will change thy promises: and destroy thine inheritance and stop the mouths of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thine house: and thine altar, to open the mouths of the heathen: that they may praise the power of idols, & magnify the fleshly king for ever. Lord give not thy sceptre unto them that be nothing worthy: lest they laugh at our fall, but turn their device upon themselves, and punish him that hath begun to rage upon us. Think upon us O Lord: and show thyself in the time of our distress. Strengthen me O thou king of gods, thou Lord of all power give me pleasant speech in my mouth before the Lyon. Turn his heart to hate our enemy: to destroy him & all such as consent to him. But deliver us with thy hand and help the forsaken woman which have no help nor defence but only the Lord, thou knowest all: thou wottest I love not the glori of the unrighteous and hate the bed of the uncircumcised and of all heathen. Thou knowest my necessity that I abhor the token of my pre-eminence and worship, which I bear upon my head what time I must show myself & be seen and that I abhor it as an unclean cloth. Thou knowest also that I thy hand maiden have not eaten at Hamans' table, and that I have had no pleasure in the Kings feast, that I have not drunk the drink offerings and that I thy handmaid have had no joy sithence the day I was brought hither, unto this day but only in thee. O Lord, O thou God of Abraham, O thou mighty God above all, hear the voice of them which have none other hope, and deliver us out of the hand of the wicked, and rid me out of my fear. Amen.   

¶ The oration and blessing of job in his most grievous adversity and loss of his goods. job. 1.  
IOb shaved his head, fell down upon the ground, worshipped God and said. Naked came I out of my mother's womb, & naked shall I return again. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, as it hath pleased the Lord: so it is done. Now blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen.   

¶ A prayer that we may be delivered from our adversaries. Esai. 37.  
O Lord of hosts, thou God of Israel which sittest upon Cherubin, Thou art the God alone of all the kingdoms of the world, thou only haste created Heaven and earth. Incline thine ear Lord: and consider, open thine eyes and see, deliver us from the hand of our adversaries, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know, that thou only art the Lord. Amen.   

¶ The prayer of Isaiah when the people were fore plagued. Isaiah. 63.64.  
Look down from heaven, & behold the dwelling place of thy sanctuari and thy glory, how is it that thy jealousy: thy strength the multitude of thy mercies and thy loving kindness will not be entreated of us? yet art thou our father. Abraham knoweth us not neither was Israel acquainted with us. But thou Lord art our father and redeemer: & thy name is everlasting. O lord wherefore haste thou led us out of thy way? wherefore hast thou hardened our hearts that we fear thee not? Be at one with us again for thy servants sake that are of the generation of thine heritage. Thy people hath had but little of thy sanctuary in possession for our enemies have taken it in. And we are become even as we were in the beginning what time we were not under thy dominion nor called not upon thy name. O that thou wouldst cleave the heaven insunder and come down: that the mountains might melt a way at thy precens, like as an hot fire, and that the malicious might boil as the water doth upon the fire, whereby thy name might be known amongs thine enemies and that the Gentiles might tremble before thee. That thou mightest come down with thy wondrous strange works, than should thilles melt at thy precens, for sithence the beginning of the world, was none (except thou O God) that heard or perceived, neither hath any eye seen what thou doest for them that put their trust in thee Thou helpest him that doth right with cheerfulness, and them that think upon thy ways. But lo thou art angry, for we offend and have been ever in sin, & there is not one hole, we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as clothes stained with the flowers of a woman, we fall everichone as the leaf, for our sins tarry us a way as the wind. There is no man that calleth upon thy name, that standeth up to take hold by thee. Therefore hidest thou thy face from us, and consumeste us because of our sins. But now O Lord thou that are our father, we are the clay and thou art our potter, and we are all the work of thine hand. Be not to sore displeased (O Lord) and keep not our offences to long in thy remembrance, but consider that we all are thy people. The cities of the sanctuary lie waste. Zion is a wilderness and Jerusalem a desert. Our holy house which is our beauty, where our fathers praised thee, is brent up: yea all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away, wilt thou not be entreated (LORD) for all this? wilt thou hold thy peace, and scourge us so sore?   

¶ An other prayer of Hieremye. Hieremie. 7.  
heal me (O Lord) and I shall be hole, save me and I shall be saved, for thou art my praise. Be not thou terreble unto me, O Lord, for thou art he in whom I hope when I am in apparel, let my persecutors be confounded, but not me, let them be afraid and not me, Thou shalt bring upon them the time of their plague, and shall destroy them right sore. Amen.   

¶ An other prayer of Hieremie. Hieremie. 31.  
O LORD thou hast chastised me, & thy chastening have I received as an untamed calf Convert thou me and I shall be converted, for thou art my Lord GOD for as soon as thou tournedst me I repented myself. And when I understood I smote upon my thigh, I confessed and was, ashamed, because I suffered reproach of my youth.   

¶ A prayer of Hieremie under the person of Christ, which every Christian may say in time of adversity. Lamenta. 5,  
THou hast heard my voice O Lord and hast not turned away thine ears from my singing and crying. Thou hast approached unto me, when I called upon thee and hast said, fear not. Thou (O Lord) haste maintained the quarrel of my soul, and hast redeemed my life. O Lord thou hast seen my blasphemers take thou my quarrel upon thee. Thou hast well considered how they go about to do me harm, and that all their counsels are against me. Thou hast heard their despiteful words (O Lord) yea and all their imaginations against me, the lips of mine enemies and other devices that they take against me, all the day long. Thou seest also their sitting down and their rising up: they make their songs of nothing but of me. Reward them O Lord according to the works of their hands. give them the thing, that their own heart is afraid of: even the curse. Persecute them, O Lord: with thine indignation, and rote them out from under the heaven. AMEN.   

¶ A prayer of Hieremie in the day of trouble, and in the destruction of Jerusalem. Lament. 5.  
CAll to remembrance O Lord what we have suffered, consider and see our confusion. Our inheritance is turned to the strangers: and our houses to foreigners we are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows. Our neck is under persecution, we are weary and have no rest Our fathers which now are gone have sinned, and we must bear their wickedness. Servants have the rule of us, and no man delivereth us out of their hands. The wives are ravished in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of juda. The princes are hanged up with the hand of enemies, they have not spared the old sage men They have committed abominable lechery with young men and the bodies are hanged up upon trees. The elders sit no more to determine right and equity, and the young men use no more playing of music. The joy of our heart is gone, our merry quere is turned to mourning. The garland of our head is fallen, alas that ever we sinned so sore. Therefore our heart is full of heaviness, and our eyes dim, because the hill Zion is destroyed, so that now the foxes run upon it. But thou O LORD that remainest for ever more and thy seat world without end. Wherefore wilt thou still for get us and forsake us so long? O Lord turn thou us unto thee, and so shall we be turned. Renew our hearts as in old times, nay thou hast banished us utterly, thou art sore displeased with us.   

¶ The prayer of Susanna when she was in danger to be ravished of the two elders. Daniel. 13.  
SVsanna sighed and said Alas I am in distress on every side, if I do this thing it will be my death and if I do it not I cannot escape your hands, well: it is better for me to fall into your hands without the deed doing, then to sin in the sight of the Lord.   

¶ An other prayer that she made, which should have been led to death, Daniel: 15,  
O Everlasting God, thou searcher of secrets, thou that knowest all things before they come to pass, thou wottest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold I must die where as I never did any such things, as these men have maliciously invented against me.   

¶ The prayer of jonas when he was as yet in the fishes belly,  
IN my trouble called I unto the Lord and he heard me, out of the belie of hell I cried and thou heardest my voice. Thou hast cast me down into the deep, even unto the mids of the sea and the flood compassed me about, yea all the waves and streams of water went over me I thought I had been a cast away out of thy sight: but I will yet again look toward thy holy temple. The waters compassed me, even to the very soul, the deep lay about me and the surges covered my head: I went down to the bottom of the hills, & was barred in with earth for ever, but thou O Lord my God hast brought up my life again out of corruption. When my soul fainted within me, I thought upon the Lord and my prayer came unto thee: even unto thy holy temple. They that hold of vain vanites will forsake his mercy But I will do sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving and will pay that I have vooed for my save guard unto the Lord.   

¶ The prayer of judas Machabeus when he should encovetre with his enemies, 2. Macha: 4:  
BLessed art thou O saviour of Israel: which didst destroy the violente power of the giant in the hand of thy servant David and gavest the host of the Heathen into the hand of jonathan the son of saul, his weapon bearer. Put this host now into the hand of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their multitude and horse men. Make them afraid and discomfit the boldness of their strength that they may be moved through their destruction. Cast them down through the sword of thy lovers, then shall all they that know thy name praise thee for ever with thanksgiving Amen.   

¶ The prayer of the priests against the tyrant that he might not prosper against the holiness of God. 1. Macha. 7.  
Forasmuch as thou lord God hast choose this house that thy name might be called upon therein, & that it should be an house of prayer and petition to thy people be avenged of this man and of his host, and let them be slain with the sword. Remember the blasphemies of them, and suffer them not to continue any longer.   

¶ The prayer of Nehemias and the priests for the people oppressed of the Heathen. 2. Machabe. 1.  
O Lord God maker of all things, thou fearful and strong thou righteous and merciful, thou that art only a gracious king only liberal, only just, almighty and everlasting, thou that deliverest Israel from all trouble, thou that hast chosen the fathers and hallowed them: receiving the offering for the hole people of Israel, preserve thine own portion and hallow it. Gather those together that are scattered abroad from us.  
Deliver them that are under the heathens bondage, look upon them which are despised and abhorred, that the Heathen may know and see, how that thou art our GOD. Punish them that oppress and proudly put us to dishonour. Set thy people again in thy holy places like as Moses hath spoken. Amen.   

¶ The prayer of Eleazar when he was drawn to execution and ready to die, 2. Machab. 6.  
Lord God which hast the holy acknowledge, thou knowest full well that where as I might have been delivered from death, I suffer these sore pains of my body, but in my mind I am well content to suffer them be cause I fear thee.    

¶ THANKESGYVYNges and praises unto GOD, of the Fathers.  

¶ The song of Moses and the children of Israel for their diliveraunce from Pharaoh. Exodi. 15.  
LET US SING unto the Lord, for he is become glorious, the horse and the horseman. The Lord is my strength and my song, and is become my salvation, he is my God and I will glorify him, he is my father's God and I will extol him up on high. The Lord is as a strong man of war, almighty is his name. Pharaos' charettes & his host, hath he cast in the sea. His piked captains are drowned in the red sea. the deep waters have covered them they sounke to the bottom as a stone. Thy hand Lord is glorious in power, thine hand hath all to dashed thine enemies and with thy great glory thou hast destroyed thine adversaries. Thou sentest forth thy wrath and it consumed them even as stubble with the breathe of thine anger. The water gathered together and the fludes stood still as a rock, and the deep water congealed together in the midst of the sea. The enemy said I will foloe and over take them and will divide the spoil, I will satisfy my lust upon thiem, I will draw my sword, and my hand shall destroy them. Thou bluest with thy brethe, and the sea covered them, and they sounke as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like unto thee O Lord amongs the gods? Who is like thee so glorious in holiness, fearful, laudable and that showest wonders?  
Thou stretchedest thy righthand and the earth swallowed them, with mercy thou cariedest this people which thou deliveredst, and broughtest they with thy strength unto thine holy habitation. The nations heard, and were afraid, pangs came upon the Philistines. Then the Dukes the Edomites were amazed, and trembling came upon the mightiest of the Moabites, all the inhabitants of Canaan warred faint hearted. Let fear and dread fall upon them, through thy greatness of thine arm, and let them be as still as a stone, while thy people pass through. O Lord, while thy people pass through, which thou haste gotten. Bring them in and plant them in the mountains of thine inheritance, the place Lord which thou hast made to dwell in, the sanctuary Lord which thy hands have prepared. The Lord reigneth ever and alway. For Pharaoh went on horseback with his charettes and horsemen into the sea, & the lord brought the waters of the sea upon them. And the children of Israel went on dry land through the sea.   

¶ The form of blessing the children of Israel. Numeri. 6  
ON this wise shall ye bless the children of Israel and say unto them. The Lord bless thee & keep thee. The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be merciful unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee: and give thee peace The priests shall make invocation to my name over Israel: that I may bless them.   

¶ Anna thanking the Lord of his benefit, on this manner singeth to God: 1. Kings. 2.  
MY heart rejoiceth in the Lord mine horn is high in the Lord and my mouth is wide open over mine enemies for I rejoice in thy saving. There is none so holy as the Lord, no there is none save thou. Neither is there any strength like unto our God Talk not so much proudly, let old things depart out of your mouths, for the Lord is God of knowledge, and judgeth the thoughts. The bows of the strong are broken and the weak endued with strength They that of late were full, have let forth themselves for bread, and the hungry be satisfied, in so much that the barren hath borne seven, and she that had many children is waxed feeble. The Lord killeth and quickeneth again, he bringeth down to hell, and fetteth up again. The Lord maketh poor and maketh eych, bringeth low and heaveth up on high, he raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dung hill, to set him amongst Princes, and make him hold the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lords, and he hath set the round world upon them. He will keep the feet of his saints, but the wicked shall keep silence in darkness. For in his own might shall no man be strong The lords adversaries shall be made to fear him and out of heaven he shall thunder upon them. The lord shall judge the coasts of the world, and shall give might unto his king, and exalt the horn of his Christ. Am̄   

¶ For benefits received at God's hand, the prayer of David. 2. Reg. 7.  
WHat am I Lord almighty and what is my house: that thou shouldest thus advance me? And is this a small thing, in thy sight? Lord almighty? but that thou wouldst speak also of thy servants house for a great while to come? Is this a law among men. Lord almighty? And what can david say more unto thee, saying thou knowe●● thy servant Lord almighty. Even for thy words sake, and a 'cording to thine own heart, hast thou done all these great things to make them known unto thy servant, wherefore thou art great: O Lord God, and there is none like thee, neither is there any God save thou, according to all that we have heard with our ears. And what one people in the earth is like thy people Israel, which God went to deliver to be his people, and too make him a name, and to show them great and terrible things in the earth, before thy people: which thou redemedest to thee out of Egypt even for the people and for their gods. And thou hast ordained thy people Israel to be thy people for ever. And thou Lord art their God, and now Lord God, the thing that thou hast said of thy servant and of his house make it good for ever, and do as thou haste said. And let thy name be great for ever, that men may say, the Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, and let the house of thy servant David be stablished before thee. For thou Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast told in the ear of thy servant saying, I will build thee an house. And therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee: ●nowe Lord almighty, thou art the God and thy words must be true for thou hast told this goodness unto thy servant, and now go to: and bless the household of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee. For thou Lord almighty haste said that with thy blessing the house of thy servant shall be blessed for ever.   

¶ A song that David saunge unto the Lord in the day that the Lord delivered him our of the hand of his enemies. 2. Reg. 22.  
THe Lord is my rock, my castle and my deliverer, God is my strength and in him will I trust my shield, and the horn that defendeth me, mine high held and refuge O my saviour save me from wrong I will praise and call on the Lord, and so shall I be saved from my enemies, for the waves of death have closed me about, and the floods of Belial have feared me, the corde● of hell have compassed me about, and the snares of death have overtaken me in my tribulation. I called to the Lord, and cried to my God, and he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry entered into his ears. And the earth trymbled and quoke, and the foundations of Heaven moved and shook: because he was angry. Smoke went out of his nostrils, and consuming fire out of his mouth, that coals were kindled of him, and he bowed the heaven and came down, and darkness underneath his feet And he code upon Cherub and flew, and appeared upon the wings of the wind and he made darkness a tabernacle round about him with water gathered together in thick clouds. Of the brightness that was before him, coals were set on fire. The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most high put out his voice, & he shot arrows and scattered them, and hurled lightening and turmoiled them. The bottom of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were seen, by reason of the rebuking of the Lord, and through blasting of the breathe of his nostrils, he sent from above and fet me, and plucked me out of mighty waters. He delivered me from my mighty enemy & from them that hated me and were to strong for me, when they had compassed me in the day of my tribulation, the Lord stayed me up, and brought me out into roomth: and delivered me because he delighted in me. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, and a 'cording to the pureness of my hands he dealt with me. For I kept the ways of the Lord, & did no wickedness forsaking my God. But I had all his laws in my sight, and turned my face from none of his ordinances. I was pure unto hymwarde, and kept myself from wickedness. And the Lord did to me again a 'cording to my righteousness and after my pureness that I had in his sight, with the holy thou shalt be holy, and with the man that is uncorrupt, thou shalt be uncorrupt, with the pure, thou shalt be pure, & with the froward thou shalt be froward also. Certainly the people that are in adversity thou shalt help, and on the proud shalt thou cast thine eyes. Thou art my light, o Lord: & the Lord shall light my darkness, with thine help. I will run through an host of men and by the aid of my God, I will spring over a wall. The way of God is undefiled, and the word of the Lord fined as gold, & he a shield to all that trust in him. Who is a God save the Lord, and who mighty save our God? God is my strength in war and rideth the way clear before me. He maketh my feet as swift as an hinds, and setteth my feet fast upon my high hold. He teacheth my hands to fight, that a bow of brass is to weak for mine arms. And thou hast saved me with thy shield, and keepest me ever in meekness. Thou madest me space to walk in, that my feet should not stumble. I followed mine enemies and destroyed them: & turned not again until I had consumed them. I wasted them and so clouted them, that they could not arise, but fell under my feet, and thou comparedest me about with might to battle, and madest them that rose against me: to stoop under me. Thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them: they looked for help, but none came to save them, unto the Lord they cried, but he heard them not. And I will beat them as small as the dust of the earth and will stamp them as the dirt in the street, and will spread them abroad, Thou deliverdest me from the dissension of my people, and kepst me to be an head over nations, for the people which I knew not, became my servants, and the alientes crouched unto me and obeyed me at a word and the alientes that shrink away shall tremble for fear in their defensed places. The Lord liveth, and blessed be● he my strength, and exalted be God the strength that saveth me. It is GOD that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me, and delivereth me from my enemies, thou liftest me up on high from them that rise against me, and deliverest me from the wicked men. Therefore I will praise thee, O Lord among the heathen, and will sing unto thy name. For thy great and manifold saving of thy king, showing mercy unto thine anointed, even unto David and his seed for ever.   

¶ A blessing of Tobias the elder, wherewith he blessed the Lord in the end of his life. Tobi. 13.  
Great art thou, O Lord, for evermore, and thy kingdom world without end. For thou scourgest and healest, thou leadest unto hell and bringest out again. And there is none that may escape thine hand. O ye children of Israel: give thanks unto the Lord, and praise him in the sight of the heathen. For among the heathen which know him not, hath he scattered you, that ye should show forth his marvelous works, & cause them to know, there is none other GOD almighty, but he. He hath chastened us for our misdeeds: and for his own mercies sake shall he save us. Consider then how he hath dealt with you, and praise him with fear and dread, and magnify the everlasting king in your words. Certes I will praise him even in the place of my captivity, for he hath showed his majesty, unto a sinful people. Turn you therefore, O ye sinners, & do ye righteousness before God, trusting verily he will show his mercy upon you Certes I and my soul will rejoice in God, praise the Lord all ye his chosen, hold the days of gladness, and be thankful unto him. Oh my soul bless thou the Lord. Amen.   

¶ The thanksgiving and song of judith for the victory & for the delivery of the country from their enemies. judith. 16.  
Begin unto the Lord upon the tabrets, sing unto the Lord upon the cymbals, sing unto him a new song of thanksgiving be joyful and call upon his name. It is the Lord that destroyeth wars, even the Lord is his name, which hath pitched his tents in the midst of his people, that he might deliver us from the hand of all our enemies Assur came out of the mountains in the multitutde of his strength, his people stopped the water brooks, & their horses covered the valleys. He purposed to have brent up my land, and to slay my young men with the sword He would have carried away my children and virgins into captivity, but the almighty Lord anneyed him, and delivered him into the hands of a woman, which brought him to confusion. For their mighty was not destroyed of the young men It was not the sons of Tiran that slew him, neither have the great giants set themselves against him, but judith the daughter of Merari: with her fair beauty discomfited him and brought him to naught. She laid down her widows apparel, and decked herself with the tire of mirth in the rejoicing of the children of Israel. She anointed her face, she bound up her hear to beguile him, her slippers ravished his eyes, her beauty raptivated his mind, with the sword smote she of his neck. The persians were astonied at her steadfastness, and the Medes at her boldness. Let us sing a song of thanksgiving unto the Lord A new song of praise will we sing unto our God, Lord Lord: thou art a great God, mighty in power, whom no man may overcome. All thy creatures should serve thee, for thou speakest but a word, and they were made: thou sentest thy spirit, and they were created, and no man can withstand thy voice. The mountains shall move from the foundations with the waters, the stony rock shall melt before thee: like wax. But they that fear thee shall be great with thee in all things, woe unto the people that rise up against my generation. For the almighty Lord will avenge himself of them, and in the day of judgement will he visit them.   

¶ The blessing of Seraphin. Esay. 9  
HOly art thou, holy art thou, holy art thou, thou art the Lord God of hosts: all the earth is full of thy glory.   

¶ thankings. Esay. 25.  
O Lord, thou art my God: I will praise thee: & magnify thy name for thou bringest marvelous things to pass, a 'cording to thine old counsels truly and steadfastly.   

¶ An other of the same. Esay. 26.  
O Lord give us peace, for thou workest in us all our works. O Lord our God, though such lords have domination upon us: as know not thee, yet grant: that we may hope only in thee: and keep thy name in remembrance.   

¶ A blessing with an admiration of the marvelous counsels of God. jere. 32.  
O Lord God, it is thou that hast made heaven & earth with thy great power and high arm: and there is nothing to hard for thee. Thou showest mercy upon thousands: thou doest recompense the wickedness of the fathers: into the bosom of the children that come after them. Thou art the great & mighty God: whose name is the Lord of hosts great in council, and infinite in thought. Thine eyes look upon all the ways of men's children to reward every one after his way, and according to the fruits of his inventions. Thou hast done great tokens and wonders in the land of Egypt upon the people of Israel: to make thy name great, as it is come to pass this day: Thou hast brought thy people of Israel out of the land of Egypt with tokens, with wonders, with a mighty hand, with a stretched out arm, and with great terribleness, and haste given them this land: like as thou hadst promised unto their fathers. Namely, that thou wouldst give them a land, that floweth with milk and honey. Now when they came therein and possessed it, they followed not thy voice, and walked not in thy law, but all that thou commandest them to do, that have not they done. And therefore come all these plag●s upon them. Behold there are bulwarks now against the city to take it and it is won of the Caldes, that besiege it with sword with hunger and death, and what soever thou hast spoken that same is come upon them.   

¶ The song and thanksgiving of Mary the virgin. Luke. 1.  
MI soul magnifieth the Lord, & my spirit rejoiceth in God my saviour For he hath looked upon the poor degree of his handmaid. Behold now from henceforth shall all generations call me blessed, for he that is mighty hath done to me great things, and holy in his name And his mercy is on them that fear him throughout all generations He showeth strength with his arm he scattereth them that are proud in the imagination of their hearts. He putteth down the mighty from their seats, he exalteth them of low degree. He fillith the hungry with good things, and sendeth a way the rich empty. He remembreth mercy: and helpeth his servant Israel. Even as he promised to our fathers: Abraham and to his seed for ever.   

¶ The prophesy and giving of thanks of Zachary. Luke. 1.  
BLessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited & redeemed his people. And hath raised up an horn of salvation unto us in the house of his servant David. Even as he promised by the mouth of his holy prophets, which were sithence the world begun that we should be saved from our enemies and from the hands of all that hate us. To fulfil the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant. And to perform the oath which he swore to our father Abraham to give us, that we delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might serve him without fear, all the days of our life, in such holiness and righteousness as is accept before him. And thou child shalt be called the prophet of the highest and thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways. And to give acknowledge of salvation unto his people for the forgiveness of sins. Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day springeth from an high hath visited us. To give light to them that sat in darkness and in shadow of death, and to guide our feet into the way of peace.   

¶ The praises of the angels at the birth of Christ. Luke. 2.  
GLORI unto God on high and peace on the earth, unto men rejoicing.   

¶ giving of thanks of simeon. Luke. 1.  
LORD, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy promise, for mine eyes have seen the saviour sent from thee, which thou hast prepared before the race of all people. A light to lighten the gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.   

¶ Thanks of Paul for his conversion unto Christ. 1. Timothi. 1.  
Unto GOD king everlasting immortal, invisible, and wise only but honour and praise for ever and ever. Amen.   

¶ A song of the triumphers over the beast Apoca. 15.  
Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God almighty, just and true are thy ways king of saints. Who shall not fear O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art holy, and all Gentiles shall come and worship before thee for thy judgements are made manifest   

¶ A blessing of the people by king Solomon. 3. Kings. 8.  
BLessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that he promised, so that there is not one word escaped of all the good promises which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant. And the Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers and forsake us not, neither leave us, but he may bow our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways & to keep his commandments, ordinances, and customs which he commanded our fathers. And these my words which I have prayed before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he defend the quarrel of his servant and of his people Israel evermore, that all nations of the earth may know that the Lord he is God, and none other but he, and I pray God that your hearts may be found with the Lord our God, to walk in his ordinances and to keep his laws as we do this day.   

¶ The blessing and praises of saint Ambrose and Augustyne. Te Deum laudamus.  
WE praise thee (Oh Lord) we acknowledge thee to be the Lord All the earth mought worship thee which art the father everlasting To thee crieth forth all angels, the heavens and all the powers therein. To thee thus crieth Cherubin and Seraphin continually, holy art thou, holy art thou, holy art thou. Thou art the Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are fulfilled with the glory of thy maiesti. The glorious compaigne of the Apostles praise thee. The goodly fellowship of the propheys praise thee. The fair fellowship of Matters praise thee. The holy congregation of the faithful throughout all the world magnify thee. They knowledge thy honourable and very only son. The acknowledge the holy ghost to be a comforter. Thou art the king of glory O Christ. Thou art the everlasting son of the father. Thou (when thou shouldest take upon thee our nature, to deliver man) didst not abhor the virgin's womb, when thou hadst over come the sharpness of death, thou openeddest the kingdom of heavens to them that believed in thee. Thou sittest on the right hand of God in the glory of the father. We believe thou shalt come to be our judge, wherefore we pray thee help thy servants whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood. Make them to be numbered with thy saints in joy everlasting O Lord save thy people, & bless thine heritage. Govern and also lift them up into bless everlasting, we praise thee every day, and we worship thy name ever world without end. O Lord let it be thy pleasure to keep us this day without sin. O Lord have mercy upon us, even as me trust in thee In thee O lord do I trust let me not be confounded for ever Amen    

❧ PRAYERS FOR SVCcours and reliefs of life, for wisdom, for humility and for other natural gifts.  

¶ The request of jacob for sustentation and relief of this present life. Genesis. 28.  
IF THE LORD will be with me and will keep me in the way that I shall walk in, & will give me bread to eat and cloth to wear and that I may return again unto my father's house in savoury: them shall the Lord be my God, and this stone which I have set up an end, shallbe gods house, and of all that thou shalt give me, will I give the tenth unto thee.   

¶ Thus prayed Anna unto the Lord that she might obtain a child. 1. Kings. 1.  
LORD of hosts, if thou wilt look on the wretchedness of thine handmaid, and shalt remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, and shall give thine hand maid a man child: I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life.   

¶ The prayer of Solomon for wisdom well to govern his people, daily to be prayed of all princes & other rulers. 3. Kings. 3.  
THou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in troth, in righteousness and in plainness of heart with thee, And thou hast kept for him this great mercy, that thou haste given him a son to sit on his seat. And now Lord my God, it is thou that hast made thy servant king in the rou●e of David my father, and I am a young lad and wot not how to order myself. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a people that are so many, that they cannot be numbered for multitude, give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people & to deserve between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thine so great a people?   

¶ A prayer of Solomon for a competency of life. proverbs. 30.  
TWo things I require of thee that thou wilt not deny me before I die. Remove from me unnitie and lies, give me neither poverty nor rich, only grant me a necessary living, least if I be to full, I mought happily deny thee, and say what fellow is the Lord, or constrained through poverty, I mought fall unto stealing, & forswear the name of my God. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for obtaining of Wisdom Sapiense. 9  
GOD of my fathers, and Lord of mercies, thou hast made all things with thy word, and ordained man through thy wisdom, that he should have dominion over the creature which thou haste made, that he should order the world according to equity and righteousness, and execute judgement with a true heart, give me wisdom, which is ever about thy seat, and put me not out from among thy children. For I thy servant and son of thy handmaid am a feeble person, of a short time, and to young to the understanding of judgement and of thy laws. And though a man he never so perfect among the children of men, yet if thy wisdom be not with him, he shallbe nothing worth Oh send her out of thy holy heavens and from the throne of thy majesty, that she may be with me & labour with me that I may know what is acceptable in thy sight. For she knoweth and understandeth all things, and she shall conduct me soberly in my works, and preserve me in her power. So shall my works be acceptable. AMEN.   

¶ A prayer for meekness and the obtaining of chastity. Eccle. 23.  
O LORD thou father and God of my life, let me not have a proud look. But turn a way all voluptuousness from me. Take from me the lusts of the body let not the desires of uncleanness take hold upon me, and give me not over into an unshamefast and obstinate mind. Amen.   

¶ The prayer of jesus the son of Syrache, in necessity & for wisdom. Eccle. the last.  
I Thank thee O Lord & king and praise thee O God my saviour I will yield praises unto thy name, for thou art my defender and helper from the snare of traitors tongues, and from them that are occupied in lies. Thou haste been my helper from such as stood up against me, and haste delivered me according to the multitude of thy mercy, & for thy holy names sake. Thou haste delivered me from the roaring of them that prepared themselves to devour me, out of thy hands of such as sought after my life from the multitude of them that troubled me and went about to set fire upon me on every side, so that I was not brent in the mids of the fire. From the deep of hell, from an unclean tongue, from lying words from the wicked king, and from unrighteous tongue. My soul shall praise the Lord unto death, for my life drewenie unto hell. They compassed me round about on every side, and there was no man to help me. I looked about me if there were any man that would succour me, but there was none. Then thought I upon thy mercy O Lord and upon thy acts that thou haste done ever of old, namely that thou deliverest such as put their trust in thee, & riddest them out of the hands of the Heathen Thus lifted I up my prayer from the earth, and prayed for deliverance from death, I called upon the Lord my father, that he would not leave me without help in the day of my trouble, and in the time of the proud. I praised thy name continually yielding honour and thanks unto it, and so my prayer was hard. Thou savedst me from destruction and deliverest me from the unrighteous time. Therefore will I acknowledge, and praise thee, and magnify the name of the LORD When I was yet but young, or cun I went astray, I desired wisdom openly in my prayer. I came therefore before the temple and I sought her very busily. The● flourished she unto me, as a grape that is soon ripe. My heart rejoiced in her, than went my foot the right way, yea from my youth sought I after her, I bowed down mine ear & received her. I tounde in myself much wisdom and prospered greatly in her. Therefore will I ascribe the glory unto him that giveth me wisdom, for I am advised to do thereafter, I will be jealous to cleave unto the thing that is good so shall I not be confounded. My soul hath wresstled with her, and I have been di●igent to be occupied in her I lift up mine hands on high then was my soul lightened through wisdom, that I knowelaged my foolishness. I ordered my soul after her, she and I were one heart from the beginning, and I found her in cleanness: and therefore shall I not be forsaken. My heart longed after her and I got a good treasure. Thorough her the Lord hath given me a new tongue: wherewith I will praise him Oh come unto me ye unlearned, and dwell in the house of wisdom, withdraw not yourselves from her, but talk and comen of these things: for your souls are very thurstye. I opened my mouth and spoke. Oh come and buy wisdom without money, bow down your neck under her yoke: and your soul shall receive wisdom: she is hard at hand and is content to be found. Behold with your eyes, how I have had but little labour: and yet have found much rest. Oh receive wisdom, and ye shall have plenty of silver and gold in possession. Let your mind rejoice in his mercy: and be not ashamed of his praise: work his work by times and he shall give you your reward in due time.   

¶ The prayer of Abacuc Prophet for ignorancy. Abacuc. 3.  
O Lord when I heard speak of thee, than I was afraid. The work that thou hast taken in hand, shalt thou perform in his time. Oh Lord when thy time cometh: thou shalt declare it. In thy very wrath thou thinkest upon mercy. The Lord God is my strength: he shall make my feat as the feet of hearts, and he which giveth the victory shall bring me to my high places singing upon my psalms. Amen.   

¶ The prayer of our Lord jesus which he taught his disciples, Math. 6.  
Our father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And let us not be led into temptation. But deliver us from evil: for thine is the kingdom, and the power: and the glory for ever. Amen.   

¶ A prayer of the faithful congregation that they may speak the word of God boldly. Acts. 4.  
LOrd thou art God, which hast made heaven & earth, the sea & all that in them is, which by the mouth of thy servant David haste said: why did the heathen rage, & the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up & the rulers came together against the Lord and against Christ. For of a truth against this holy child jesus, whom thou hast anointed: both Herode and also Pontius pilate with the gentiles & the people of Israel gathered themselves together, to do even what soever thine hands and thy counsel determined before to be done. And now Lord behold their threatenings, and grant unto thy servants with all confidence to speak thy word, and that thou stretch forth thine hand to the intent that healing: signs & wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child jesus. Amen.   

¶ A prayer of Christ unto his father for his little ones which trust and repose themselves upon him. johan. 17.  
FAther the hour is come, glorify thy son: that thy son may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give everlasting life, to as many as thou haste given him. This is life everlasting: that they might know thee that only very God and whom thou haste sent jesus Christ. I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished the work, which thou gavest me to do. And now glorify me, thou father: with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee ear the world was. I have declared thy name unto the men which thou gavest me of the world. Thine they were, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept my sayings. Now they know that all things what soever thou gavest me, are of thee, for I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, & they have received them, and know surely, that I came out from thee, & they believed that thou didst send me. I pray for them. I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me, for they are thine and all mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them. And now am I no more in the world but they are in the world: and come unto thee. Holy father keep in thine own name them which thou haste given me, that they may be one: as we are, while I was with them in the world. I kept them in thy name Those that thou gavest me have I kept, and none of them is lost: but that lost child, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. Now come I to thee: and these words spoke I in the world, that they might have my joy full in them. I have given them thy words, and the world hath hated them, even as I am not of the world. I desire not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou keep them from evil. They are not of the world: as I am not of the world. Sanctify them with thy truth. Thy saying is true As thou sentest me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world. And for their sakes sanctify I myself, that they also might be sanctified: thorough the truth.  
I pray not for them alone, but for them also which shall believe on me, through their preaching, that they all may be one: as thou father art in me, and I in thee: that they may be also one in us, that the world may believe that thou haste sent me. And that glory that thou gavest me, I have given them, that they may be one: as we are one. I in them and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and the world may know that thou haste sent me, and haste loved them: as thou haste loved me. Father, I will that they which thou haste given me, be with me where I am, that they may see my glory: which thou haste given me. For thou lovedest me, before the making of the world. Oh righteous father, the very world hath not known thee, but I have known thee, and these have known that thou haste sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it that the love wherewith thou haste loved me: be in them, and I in them.    

CERTAIN Psalms picked forth very meet for daily prayers unto God.  
¶ To be delivered from the ungodly that we perish not with them, that endeavour themselves by all means; to withdraw us from the way of truth and that all good men, may continually be enuironued with God's protection.  

The prayer of David. Psal. 5.  
HEAR my words (O Lord) consider my calling oh mark the voice of my petition: my king and my God. For unto thee, will I make my prayer. Hear my voice by times (oh Lord), for early in the morning, will I get me unto thee: yea and that with diligence, for thou art not the GOD that hast pleasure in wickedness, there may no ungodly person dwell with thee. Such as be cruel may not stand in thy sight thou art an enemy unto all wicked doers. Thou destroyest the liars, the Lord abhorreth the bloudthurstye: and the deceitful. But I O Lord will come into thy house, trusting upon the multitude of thy mercy. And reverently will make my supplication in thy holy temple. Conduyse me, Oh Lord) in thy righteousness, because of mine enemies and make thy way plain before me. For there is no faithfulness in their mouths: they dissemble in their hearts their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they practise deceits. Punish them (Oh God) that they may perish in their own imaginations, cast them out because of the multitude of their ungodliness: for they rebel against thee. Again, let all them that put their trust in thee: rejoice, yea, let them ever be giving of thanks, because thou defendest them, that they which love thy name, may be joyful in thee. For thou Lord givest thy blessing unto the righteous, and with thy favourable kindness thou defendest him as with a shield.   

¶ To escape God's wrath and to obtain his mercy, thus shalt thou pray with David. Psal. 6.  
O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, chasten me not in thy heavy displeasure, have mercy upon me, Oh Lord: for I am weak. Oh Lord heal me: for my bones are all to shaken. My soul also is in great trouble, but Lord how long wilt thou tarry? Turn thee (Oh Lord) and deliver my soul. Oh save me for thy mercies sake, for in death no man remebreth thee. Oh, who will give thee thanks in the hell. I am weary of groaning, every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my tears. My countenance is changed for very inward grief. I consume away. I have so many enemies. Away from me all ye wicked doers, for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping, the Lord hath heard mine humble petition, the Lord hath received my prayer. All mine enemies shall be confounded and sore vexed, yea they shall be turned back and put to shame, and that right soon.   

¶ If thou be falsely belied, and maligned of thine adversary, accustom thyself unto this prayer of David, which he song unto the Lord, upon the words of the son of jemini. Psal. 7.  
O Lord my God: in thee do I trust, save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me least he catcheth up my soul like a lion: and tear it in pieces, while there is none to help. Oh Lord my God, if I have done any such thing if there be any unrighteousness in my hands: if I have rewarded evil unto them that hath dealt friendly with me, or hurt them that without any cause are mine enemies: then let mine enemy persecute my soul and take me, yea let him tread my life down in the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Stand up (O Lord) in thy wrath: lift up thyself over the furious indignation of mine enemies, arise up for me in the vengeance that thou hast promised, that the assembly of the people may come about thee: for their sakes therefore lift up thyself again. The Lord is judge over the people: avenge me then (Oh Lord) a 'cording to my righteousness and innocency. Oh let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end, but maintain the just: thou righteous God that triest the very hearts and reins: my help cometh of God: which preserve them that are true of heart. God is a righteous judge, and God is ever threatening, if men will not turn: he hath whet his sword: he hath bend his bow, and made it ready. He hath prepared him the weapons of death and ordained his arrows to destroy. Behold: this fellow travaileth with mischief, he hath conceived unhappenes, and brought forth a lie. He hath graven and digged up a pit, but he shall fall himself into the hole that he hath made. For his unhappiness shall come upon his own head, and his wickedness shall fall upon his own pate. As for me I will give thanks unto the Lord, for his righteousness sake, And will praise the name of the Lord the most high.   

¶ A sanctifying for the mercy of God showed us in temptations and adversities and for the marvelous subversion and destruction of our adversaries. Psal. 9  
Will give thanks unto thee, I (O Lord) with my hole heart. I will speak of all thy marvelous works, I will be glad and rejoice in thee, yea my songs will I make of thy name. Oh thou most highest. Because thou haste driven mine enemies a bake, they were discomfited, & perished at thy presence For thou hast maintained my right and my quarrel, thou sittest in the throne and art the true judge. Thou rebukeste the Heathen and destroyest the ungodly: thou puttest out their name for ever. The enemies swords are come to an end, thou haste overthrown their cities, their name is perished with them. But the Lord endureth for ever, he hath prepared his seat unto judgement. He governeth the world with righteousness, and ministereth true judgement unto the people. The Lord is a defence, he is for the poor a defence in the time of trouble. Therefore they that know thy name, put their trust in thee. For thou (oh Lord) never failest them that seeketh thee. Oh praise ye the Lord which dwelleth in zion: show the people of his doings: and why, he maketh inquisition for their blood, and remembreth them. He forgetteth not the complaint of the poor. Have mercy upon me (Oh Lord) consider the trouble, that I am in among mine enemies, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death that I may show thy praises within the ports of the doughghter of Zion & rejoice in thy saving health. As for the heathen: they are sunken down in the pit that they made yea in the same net which they spread out privily is their own feet taken Thus the Lord is known to execute true judgement, when the ungodly is trapped in the works of his own hands. So he is. The wicked Bee turned unto hell, and all the heathen that forget God. But the poor shall never be out of remembrance, neither shall the patient abiding of such as be in trouble, perish for ever. Arise Lord, let no man have the upper hand, let the heathen be condemned before thee. Oh Lord set a schoolmaster over them, that the heathen may know themselves to be but men   

¶ A lamentation and wailing unto God, while Antichrist triumpheth and sleeth the holy ones of God, persecuteth the Gospel. Pfal. 10.  
WHy art thou go so far of, O Lord, wilt thou hide thyself their heart is sure, that thine ear harkeneth thereto, help the fatherless & poor unto their right that the ungodly be no more exalted upon earth.   

¶ That we be not wrapped in the blindness of the wicked, and that we perish not for ever. Psal. 13.  
HOW long wilt thou forget me. Oh Lord, wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face fro me, O how long shall I toss counsailles in my mind? how long shall I be thus vexed in my heart? How long shall mine enemy triumph over me? consider and hear me Oh lord my God lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death, lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him, for if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it. But my trust is in thy mercy and my heart is joyful in thy saving health. I will sing praises of thee O Lord, that dealest so lovingly with me   

¶ That the heavenly father will not suffer us to shrink at so mighty adversaries and so cruelly pursuing which flove full of pleasures of the world thus we may pray with the Prophet praying in the person of Christ. Psalm. 17.  
HEAR mine innocency (Oh Lord) consider my complain hearken unto my prayer, that gooth not out of a feigned mouth, let my doom come forth from thy presence and look upon the thing that is egail Thou hast proved & visited my heart in the night season, thou hast tried me in the fire, and hast found no wickedness in me, for I utterly purposed that my mouth should not offend. Because of the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the works of men, from the ways of perverse persons Direct my goings into thy paths that my fotsteppes slip not, for unto thee I cry. Hear me oh God, incline thine ears unto me, and hearken unto my words. Show thy marvelous loving kindness, thou that savest such as put their trust in thee From such as resist thy righthand keep me as the apple of an eye. Defend me under the shadow of thy wings, from the ungodly that trouble me, from mine enemies which compass my soul round about which maintain their own wealthiness with oppression, and their mouth speaketh proud things. They lie waiting in our way on every side, turning their eyes down to the ground like as a lion that is greedy of his pray, & as it were a lion's whelp, lurking in his den. Arise Lord disappoint him, and cast him down deliver my soul with thy sword from the ungodly with thy hand O Lord receive me from the men of this world, which have their portion in this life whose bellies thou fillest with thy treasure. They have children at their desire & leave the rest of their substance for their babes, well I will behold thy presence in righteousness, & when thy glory appeareth, I shallbe satisfied   

¶ With much affiance of heart upon God, a prayer for sins and for the granting of his holy spirit, for it is not possible but GOD will hear us a 'cording to Christ's promise in the Gospel. Psal. 25.  
Unto to thee (Oh Lord) I lift up my soul. My God I trust in thee, let me not be confounded, least mine enemies brag over me. For no doubt all they that hope in thee, shall not be ashamed, but such as be scornful despisers without a cause, they shall be put to shame. Show me thy ways, Lord and teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy troth and teach me, for thou art the God of my health, and in thee is my hope all the day long. Call to remembrance, oh Lord, thy tender mercies & thy loving kindness, which have been ever sithence the beginning Remember not the sins & offences of my youth but a 'cording to thy mercy think upon me, oh lord, for thy goodness. Oh how friendly & righteous is the Lord, therefore will he bring again sinners into the way, he leadeth the simple a right & such as be meek them he instructeth his ways. All the ways of the Lord, are very mercy and faithfulness, unto such as keep his testament and covenant. For thy name's sake, oh lord, be merciful unto my sin, for it is great. What soever he be that feareth the Lord he shall show him the way, that he hath chosen. His soul shall dwell at ease, & his seed shall possess the land. The secret of the Lord is among them that fear him, and he showeth them his covenant. Mine eyes are ever looking unto the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. Turn thee unto me and have mercy upon me, for I am desolate and in misery. The sorrows of my heart are great wherefore bring me out of my troubles, look upon mine adversity and misery and forgive me all my sins Considre how mine enemies are many, and bear malicious hate against me. O keep my soul and deliver me, let me not be confounded for I have put my trust in thee. Let innocency and righteous dealing wait upon me, for my hope is in thee. Deliver Israel, O God out of all his distress.   

¶ In the affliction or passion both of the spirit and of the flesh, thus may we pray with Christ & with the godly Psalm. 31:  
IN thee, O Lord is my trust, let me never be put to shame, but deliver me in thy righteousness. Bowdoune thine ear to me, make haste to deliver me, be thou my strong rock, and a walled house, that thou mayest save me For thou art my strong hold and my castle, wherefore be thou my God, and conduct me for thy name's sake. Draw me out of the net, that they have laid privily for me, for thou art my strength. Into thine hands I commend my spirit thou hast delivered me oh Lord thou God of truth I hate them that hold of vanities, & my trust is in the Lord I will be glad & rejoice in thy mercy, for thou hast considered my trouble, thou hast known my soul in adversity. Thou hast not cast me over, into the hands of the enemies, but haste set my feet in a large room. Have mercy upon me Oh Lord for I am in trouble, mine eyes is censumed for very heaviness, yea my soul & my body. My life is consumed with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength faileth me because of mine adversity, and my bones are dried up, I am become a very reproach among all mine enemies my neighbours & they of mine own acquaintance are afraid of me, they that seem in the street, convey themselves from me, I am cleave forgotten and out of mind even as a dead man. Lo I am become like a broken vessel For I have heard the sklenderous reports of the multitude, every man abhorreth me, they have gathered a counsel together against me, and are purposed to take away my life. But my hope is in the Lord, and I say thou art my God. My days are in thy hand, deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me. Show thy servant the light of thy countenance help me for thy mercy's sake, let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I call upon thee, but let the ungodly rather be put to confusion, and brought unto the pit, let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous. O how great and manifold be the good things which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee? How great things bringest thou to pass for them that put their trust in thee, in the sight of the sons of men? Thou hidest them in the secrets of thy countenance from the proud men, thou keepest them secretly in thy tabernacle from the strife of tongues. Thanks be given to the lord who hath showed me marvelous great kindness out of the strong city. For when the soudain fear came upon me, I said I am cast out of thy sight. Nevertheless thou hardest mine humble prayer, when I cried unto thee. Wherefore love the Lord (all ye his saints) for the Lord preserveth the faithful & plenteously acquitteth the proud doers. Be strong therefore & take a good heart unto you all ye that put your affiance in the LORD.   

¶ A sanctifying of GOD, for that the earth is full of his mercy, and that by his mighty word he wrought all thing. Psalm. 33.  
Rejoice in the Lord O ye righteous, for it becometh well the just to be thankful. Praise the Lord with harp. Sing Psalms unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings. Sing him a new song, yea sing to him with good courage. For the word of the Lord is true, and all his works are sure. He loveth mercy and judgement the earth is full of the lords goodness. By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the furniture of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathereth the waters together as it were in a bottle and laid up the deep in secret. Let all the earth fear the Lord, and let all them that dwell in the world, stand in awe of him. For what he saith, is done & what he commandeth standeth fast. The Lord disperseth the counsel of the Heathen, and maketh frustrate the devices of the people. But his own counsel endureth for ever, & the thoughts of his heart from generation to generation. Blessed are the people that hold the Lord for their God, and blessed are the folk whom he hath chosen to be his heritage. The Lord looketh down from heaven, and beholdeth all the children of men. From his strong seat he considereth all them that dwell in the world. He only hath fashioned all the hearts of them & knoweth all their works. A king is not helped by his own great host neither is a giant saved through the might of his own strength. A horse is but a vain thing to save a man, it is not the power of his strength that that can deliver him. Behold the eyes of the Lord be fixed upon them that fear him, and repose themselves in his mercy That he may deliver their souls from death, and feed them in the dear time. Let our soul patiently abide the Lord, for he is our help & shield. So shall our heart rejoice in him, because we have hoped in his holy name Let thy merciful kindness, O Lord, be upon us like as we have reposed our trust in thee.   

¶ A stablishement of the mind against such as slander us that we again upbraid not them which thing is the great gift of God. Psal. 39  
I Was determined to keep my ways that I offend not in my tongue, & so I shut my mouth While the ungodly lay in a wait for me, I held my tongue, I was doom, I kept silence, for a good purpose, but it was pain and grief unto me. My heart was hot within me, myes, and in his truth shall he destroy them. Wherefore I will offer unto thee, and praise thy name. Oh Lord, because it is so comfortable, for thou hast delivered me out of all my trouble, so that mine eye seeth his desire upon mine enemies.   

¶ That being lightened with God's grace we may know here in earth the way that leadeth to God whithe is a sure confidence upon God and charity towards the neighbour. Psal. 67.  
GOD be merciful unto us, bless us, and show the light of his countenance upon us. That we may know thy way upon earth, thy saving health among all heathen. Let the people praise thee O God, yea let all people praise thee. Let the people rejoice and be glad, for that thou judgest the folk righteously, and governest the nations upon earth. Let the people praise thee, Oh God, let all people praise thee. God, even our own god, giveth us his blessing, that the earth m●●e bring forth her increase. God blesseth us, and let all the ends of the world fear him.   

¶ Against Antichrist pursuing and killing the holy ones of God and defiling the mysteries of God's word. Psal. 79.  
OH God the heathen have invaded thine heritage, the holy temple have they defiled, and made jerusalem an heap of stones. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given unto the fowls of the air to be devoured, and the flesh of thy holy ones unto the beasts of the land Their blood have they shed like water on every side of jerusalem, and there was no man to bury them, we are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and verision unto them that are round about us Lord: how long wilt thou be angry, shall thy jealousy burn like fire for ever? power out thy indignation upon the Heathen that know thee not, and upon the kingdoms: that call not upon thy name, For they have devoured jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place. Oh, remember not our old sins, but have mercy upon us, and that soon: for we are come to great misery Help us, Oh God, our saviour for the glory of thy name. Deliver us and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake. Wherefore shall the Heathen say, where is now their God? Let the vengeance of thy servants blood that is shed, be openly showed upon the Heathen in our sight. Let the sorrowful sighing of the prisoners come before thee, & according to the strength of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die. And for the blasphemy wherewith our neighbours have blasphemed thee, reward them Oh Lord: seven fold into their bosom. So we that be the people and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks for ever, and will alway be showing forth thy praise more and more.   

¶ A prayer and yielding of thanks for that we be redeemed by Christ from eternal death. Psal. 86.  
Bow down thine ear, Oh Lord, and hear me: For I am comfortless and poor. Keep my soul, for I am guiltless. Oh my God help thy servant that putteth his trust in thee. Be merciful unto me, Oh Lord: for I call daily upon thee. Comfort the soul of thy servant, for unto thee Oh Lord, do I lift up my soul. For thou Lord art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee. give eare Lord unto my prayer, and ponder my humble desire. In the time of my trouble I call upon thee, for thou hearest me. Among the gods there is none like unto thee. Oh Lord, there is not one that can do as thou doest All nations whom thou haste made, shall come and worship before thee, Oh Lord, and shall glorify thy name For thou art great, thou doest wondrous things: thou art God alone Lead me in thy way, oh Lord that I may walk in thy truth. Oh let my heart be light in fearing thy name. I thank thee, oh Lord my god and will praise thy name for ever. For great is thy mercy toward me, thou haste delivered my soul from the nethermost hell. O God the proud are risen against me, and the congregation of the mighty seeketh after my soul, and set not thee before their eyes But thou, oh Lord God, art full of compassion, and mercy, long suffering, great in goodness and truth. Turn thee O Lord: unto me, have mercy upon me, give thy strength unto thy servant, and help the son of thine handmaid, Show some token upon me for good, that they which hate me may see it: and be ashamed because thou Lord haste helped me, and comforted me.   

¶ When we be clean put out of all comfort, we may pray with the prophet in the person of Christ. Psal. 88  
OH Lord God my saviour, I cry day and night before thee Let my prayer entre into thy presence: incline thine ear unto my calling. For my soul is full of trouble, and my life draweth nigh unto hell I am counted as one of them, that go down unto the pit. I am even as a man that hath no strength. I am found among the dead, like unto them that lie in the grave. Which be out of remembrance and are cut away by thy hand. Thou haste driven me into the low pit, into darkness out of which can no man wade Thy displeasure lieth hard upon me and thou vexest me with all thy floods. Thou haste put away mine acquaintance far fro me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison, that I can not get forth. My sight faileth for very trouble, Lord I call daily upon thee, and stretch out my hands unto thee Dost thou show wonders amongst the dead? Can the physicians raise them up again: that they may praise thee? May thy loving kindness be showed in the grave, or thy faithfulness in destruction? May thy wondrous works be known in the dark, or thy righteousness: in the land where all things are forgotten Unto thee I cry, Oh Lord, and early cometh my prayer before the Lord why puttest thou away my soul? Wherefore hidest thou thy face from me? My strength is go for very misery, with fearfulness do I bear thy burdens. Thy wrathful displeasure goeth over me: the fear of thee oppresseth me. They come round about me daily like water, and compass me together on every side. My lovers and friends haste thou put away from me, and turned away mine acquaintance.   

¶ A bewailing of our corrupt nature and of the misery of this life, by reason of sin. Psal. 93.  
LORD, thou art our refuge from one generation to an other Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God everlasting and world without end. Thou iournest men to destruction again, thou sayest come again: ye children of men. For a thousand year in thy sight are but as yester day that is paste, & like as it were a night watch. Assoon as thou scatrest them they are even as a sleep, and fade away suddenly like grass. In the morning it is green and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down and withered. For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation. Thou settest our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the sight of thy countenance. For when thou art angry, all our days are gone. We bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told. The days of our age are about iii score years and ten, & though men be so strong that they come to four score years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow: so soon passeth it away, and we are gone. But who regardeth the power of thy wrath? thy fearful and terrible displeasure? O teach us too number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. Turn thee again (O Lord) at the last, and be gracious unto thy servants. Oh satisfy us with thy mercy: and that soon: so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life. Comfort us again, now after the time that thou haste plagued us, and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity. Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory And the glorious majesty of the Lord our God be upon us. Prosper thou the work of our hands upon us, prosper thou our handy work.   

¶ A sanctification of the lords name for that he made all things, and all be in his hand. Psal. 95.  
OH come let us praise the Lord let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and show ourselves glad in him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great king above all gods. In his hand are all the corners of the earth & the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, for he made it and his hands prepared the dry land. Oh come let us worship and bow down ourselves let us kneel before the Lord our maker. For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as when ye provoked me in time of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tempted me: proved me, & saw ray works. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, they ever erred in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways. Therefore I said unto them in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.   

¶ Whiles we seem to be in the mids of tribulation and forsaken of men yea and of God also. Psal. 102.  
Hear my prayer (O Lord) and let my crying come unto thee Hide not thy face from me in the time of my trouble. incline thine ears unto me, when I call, hear me, and that right soon. For my days are consumed away, like as it were a fire brand. My heart is smitten down and withered like grass, so that I forget to eat my bread. For the voice of my groaning my bones will scarce cleave to my flesh. I am become like a pelican in the wilderness, and like an hole in the broken wall. I wake, and am even as it were a sparrow, sitting alone upon the house top Mine enemies revile me all the day long. they laugh me to scorn and are sworn together against me. I eat ashes with my bread: and mingle my drink with weeping. And that because The children of thy servants shall cotinue, and their seed shall prosper in thy sight.   

¶ A merry thanksgiving for all the benefits conferred unto us by Christ Psal. 103.  
Praise the Lord, oh my soul & all that is within me, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord oh my soul, and forget not all his benefits which forgevethe all thy sins, and healeth all thine infirmeties. Which saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy and with loving kindness. Which satisfieth thy desire with good things, making thee, young and lusty as an eagle. The Lord executeth righteousness and judgement for all them that suffer wrong. He showed his ways unto Moses, and his works unto the children of Israel. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, long suffering and of great goodness. He will not alway be chiding, neither will he keep his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our wickedness. For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth: so great is his mercy also towards them that fear him, look how wide the east is from the west: so far hath he set our sins from us. Yea like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him. For he knoweth whereof we be made, he remembreth that we are but dust. That a man in his time is but as grass, and flourisheth as a flower in the field. For as soon as the wind goeth over it: it is gone and the place thereof knoweth it no more But the merciful goodness of the Lord endureth for ever, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness upon their children's children. Namely to such as keep his covenant and think upon his commandments to do them. The LORD hath prepared his seat in heaven, and his kingdom ruleth over all. Praise the Lord ye his angels, ye that be mighty in strength, fulfilling his commandment that men may have the voice of his words. Praise the Lord all ye his hosts ye servants of his that do his pleasure. Oh speak good of the Lord all ye his work: in every place of his dominion: Praise thou the Lord o my soul.   

¶ An other giving of thanks and praise. Psal. 104.  
Praise the Lord o my soul, O lord my God thou art become exceeding glorious, thou art clothed with majesty & honour. Thou deckest thyself with light as it were with a garment: thou spredest out the heaven like a curtain. Thou voltest it above with waters, thou makest the clouds the chariots, and gooeste upon the wings of the wind. Thou makest thy angels spirits, and thy ministers flames of fire. Thou hast laid the earth upon her foundation, that it never moveth at any time. Thou coverest it with the deep like as with a garment: so that the waters stand above the hills. But at thy rebuke they fly, at the voice of thy thoundre they are a frayed. Then are the hills seen aloft, and the valleys beneath in their place, which thou hast appointed for them Thou hast set them their bounds which they may not pass, that they turn not again to cover the earth. Thou causest the wells to spring up among the valies, & the waters to run among the hills that all beasts of the field may have drink, and that the wild asses may quench their thirst. Above upon the hills, have the fowls of the air their inhabitation, & sing among the branches. Thou watrest the hills from above, the earth is filled with the fruits of thy works. Thou bryngeste forth grass for the cattle, and green herbs for the service of men. Thou bringest food out of the earth, wine to make glad the heart of man, oil to make him a cheerful countenance and breed to strength man's heart. The trees of the Lord are full of sap even the trees of Libanus, which he hath planted. There make the birds their nests, and the fir trees are a dwelling for the stork. The hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and so are the stony rocks, for the conies. Thou hast appointed the moon for certain seasons. The son knoweth his going down. Thou makest darkness that it may be night, where in all the beasts of the forest do move, yea and the young lions, which roar after their pray, and seek their meat at GOD. But when the sun doth arise, they get them away together, and lie them down in their dens. Then goeth man forth to his work, and to till his land unto the evening. Oh Lord how manifold are thy works, right wisely hast thou made them all. yea the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea also, where in are things creaping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships over, & there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to take his pastime therein They wait all upon thee that thou mayest give them meat in due season. When thou givest it them they gather it, when thou openest thy hand, they are filled with good. But when thou hidest thy face, they are sorrowful. If thou takest away their breath, they die, and are turned again to their dust. Again when thou lettest thy breath go forth, they are made, and so thou renewest the face of the earth. The glorious majesty of the Lord endureth for ever, and the Lord rejoiceth in his works. The earth trembleth at the look of him, he doth but touch the hills, and they smoke, I will sing unto the Lord, as long as I live, I will praise my God, while I have my being. Oh that my words might please him, for my joy is in the Lord. As for sinners they shall be consumed out of the earth, and the ungodly shall come to an end, but praise thou the Lord, oh my soul.   

¶ A hallowing and praising of the Lord that he marvelously anaunseth his, as well in heaven as in earth. Psal. 113.  
PRaise the lord (o ye servants of the Lord) praise the name of the LORD. Bless the name of the Lord, from this time forth, for ever more. The lords name is worthy to be praised, from the rising of the sun until the going down of the same. The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory is above the heavens. Who is like unto the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling so high, which humbleth himself, to behold that is done in heaven and in earth. Which taketh up the simple out of the dust, and lifteth the poor out of the mire. That he may set him among the princes even among the princes of his people Which maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children.   

¶ A commendation of the lords mercy that he hath vouchsafe to call us Gentiles and Heathen persons unto his faith. Psal. 117.  
Praise the Lord all ye Gentiles laud him all ye people. For his merciful kindness is ever more and more toward us, and the troth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise the everlasting.   

¶ A prayer that God himself may lead rule, teach, and direct us in his way in his precepts and in his Gospel, and that he may keep us from the doctrine and traditions of men. Psalm. 119.  
BLessed are those that be undefiled in the way, which walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and seek him with their hole heart. Which walk in his ways & do no wickedness. Thou haste given straight charge, to keep thy commandments. Oh that my ways were established to keep thy statutes, so should I not be confounded. while I have respect unto all thy commandments, I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart. Because I am learned in thy judgements of thy righteousness I will keep thy statutes, oh forsake me not utterly. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way even by ruling himself after thy word. Wherefore with my whole heart do I seek thee. Let me not go astray out of thy commandments, thy words have I hid in my heart that I should not sin against thee. Praised be thou o Lord Oh teach me thy statutes. With my lips will I be telling out all the judgements of thy mouth. I have as great delight in the way of thy testimonies as in all manner of riches. I will excercise myself in thy commandments, and have respect unto thy foot paths. My delight shallbe in thy statutes, I will not forget thy words. Oh do well unto thy servant that I may live and keep thy words. Open thou mine eyes, and so shall I espy out wondrous things in thy law, I am a stranger upon earth. Hid not thy commandments fro me. My soul breaketh out, for the very fervent desire that I have alway unto thy judgements. Thou rebukest the proud cursed are they that departed from thy commandments. Oh turn fro me shame and rebuke, for I keep thy testimonies. Prince's also sit & speak against me, but thy servant is occupied in thy statutes In thy testimonies is my delight, they are my counsellors. My soul cleaveth to the dust, but quicken thou me a 'cording to thy word. I knowlaged my ways, & thou heardest me. Wherefore teach me thy statutes. Make me to understand the way of thy commandments, and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works My soul melteth away for very heavens. Set me up a 'cording to thy word. Take fro me the way of lying, and grant me thy law, I have chosen the way of truth, thy judgements have I laid be for me. I stick unto thy records, Oh Lord confound me not.  
I will run in the way of thy commandments, when thou hast comforted my heart. Teach me oh lord the way of thy ordinances, and I shall keep it unto th'end. give me understanding and I shall keep thy law Yea I shall keep it with my hole heart Lead me in the path of thy commandments, for that is my desire. Incline my heart unto thy testimonies. and not to covetousness. Oh turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity, and quicken me in thy ways. stablish thy word in thy servant, that I may fear thee. Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of. For thy judgements are amiable. Behold my delight is in thy commandments. Oh quicken me in thy righteousness. Let thy loving mercy come unto me Oh Lord, and thy saving health according to thy word. That I may give answer unto my blasphemers, for my trust is in thy word. Take not the word of troth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in thy judgements. So shall I alway keep thy law: yea for ever & ever. And I will walk in thy liberty, for I seek thy commandments. I will speak of thy testimonies even before kings, & will not be ashamed. My delight shall be in thy commandments which I love. My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments which I love and my talking shallbe of thy statutes. Think upon thy servant, as concerning thy word, wherein thou hast caused me to put my trust. For it is my comfort in my trouble, yea thy word quickeneth me. The proud hath me greatly in derision, yet shrink not I from thy law, I remember thine everlasting judgements, oh Lord, and am comforted. I am horribly affride for the ungodly, that forsake thy law. Thy statutes are my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. I rhynke upon thy name, Oh Lord, in the right season and keep thy law. And I pray thee let this chance unto me that I may keep thy commandments. Thou art my portion Oh LORD, I am purposed to keep thy law I make my humble petition in thy presence, with my whole heart, Oh be merciful a 'cording unto thy word. I call mine own ways to remembrance and turn my feet into thy records. I make haste and prolong not the time, to keep thy commandments The congregations of the ungodly have rob me, but I forget not thy law. At midnight stand I up to give thanks unto thee, for the judgements of thy righteousness. I am a companion of all that fear thee, and keep thy commandments. The earth, Oh Lord, is full of thy mercy, teach me thy statutes Oh Lord thou hast dealt friendly with thy servant, according unto thy word. Teach me thy kindness, nurture and knowledge, for I believe thy commandments. Before I was troubled, I went wrong, but now I keep thy word. Thou art good and friendly, wherefore of that thy goodness teach me thy statutes. The proud imagine lies upon me, but I keep thy commandments with my whole heart. Their heart is congealed as a loump of fat, but my delight is in thy law. It is good for me that I have been in trouble, that I may learn thy statutes. The law of thy mouth is dearer unto me, than thousands of gold & silver. Thy hands have made me & fashioned me, give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments. They that fear thee, will be glad when they see me, because I put my trust in thy word. I know Oh Lord, that thy judgements are right, and that thou of very faithfulness haste caused me to be troubled. Oh let thy merciful kindness be my comfort, a 'cording to the prom●s that thou hast made unto thy servant. Let thy loving mercy come unto me, that I may live, for thy law is my delight. Let the proud be confounded, which handle me so falsely. But let such as fear thee, and know thy testimonies, be at one with me. Let my heart be undefiled in thy statutes that I be not ashamed. My soul longeth for thy saving health, for my trust is in thy word. My eyes long sore for thy word, saying, Oh when wilt thou comfort me? For I am become like a bottle in the smoke, yet do I not forget thy statutes. How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou be avenged of mine adversaries? The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. All thy commandments are true, they persecute me falsely, but be thou my help. They have almost made an end of me upon earth, but I forsake not thy commandments. Oh quicken me after thy loving kindness, and so shall I keep the records of thy mouth. Oh Lord thy word endureth for ever in Heaven. Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to an other, thou haste laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth. They continue this day a 'cording to thine ordinance, for all things serve thee. If my delight were not in thy awe, I should perish in my trouble. Wherefore I will never forget thy commandments for with them thou quickenest me. I am thine, help me. For I seek thy commandments. The ungodly lay wait for me, to destroy me, but I consider thy testimonies. I see that all things come to an end but thy commandment is exceeding broad. Oh what love have I unto thy law, all the day long is my talking of it. Thou thorough thy commandment, haste made me wiser than mine enemies, for it is ever by me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my study. Yea I am wiser than the aged, for I keep thy commandments. I refrain my feet from every evil way, that I may keep thy words. I shrink not from thy judgements, for thou teachest me. Oh how sweet are thy words unto my throat? Yea: more than honey unto my mouth. thorough thy commandments I get understanding: therefore I hate all false ways. Thy word is a lantern unto my feet, and a light unto my paths. I have sworn and am steadfastly purposed to keep the judgements of thy righteousness. I am troubled above measure: quicken me, oh Lord: a 'cording unto thy word. Let the free sacrifices of my mouth please thee, oh lord and teach me thy judgements. My soul is alway in my hand, yet do not I forget thy law. The ungodly have laid a snare for me, but yet serve not I from thy commandments. Thy testimonies have I claimed as my heritage for ever, and why they are the very joy of my heart. I apply my heart to fulfil thy statutes always, even unto the end, I hate the ungodly, but thy law do I love. Thou art my defence and shield, my trust is in thy word. Away fro me ye wicked. I will keep the commandments of my God. Oh stablish me according unto thy word: that I may live, and let me not be disappointed of my hope. Hold thou me up: and I shall be safe, yea and I shall ever be talking of thine ordinances. Thou treadest down all them that depart from thy statutes, for they imagine but deceit. Thou puttest away all the ungodly of the earth like draff, therefore I love thy testimonies. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgements. I deal with the thing that is lawful and right. give me not over unto mine oppressoures. Be thou surety for thy servant, to do him good: that the proud do him no wrong. Mine eyes are wasted away with looking for thy health, and for the word of his righteousness. Go to, deal with thy servant a 'cording unto thy loving mercy, and teach me thy statutes. I am thy servant. Gh grant me understanding: that I may know thy testimonies. It is time for thee, Oh Lord: lay to thine hand, for they have destroyed thy law. For I love thy commandments, above gold and precious stone. Therefore hold I straight all thy commandments: and all false ways I utterly abhor. Thy testimonies are wonderful, therefore doth my soul keep them. When thy word goeth forth, it giveth light and understanding even unto babes. I open my mouth and draw in my breath, for I desire thy commandments. Oh: look thou upon me, and be merciful, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my goings after thy word, that no wickedness reign in me. deliver me from the slanders of men, so shall I keep thy commandments. Show the light of thy countenance unto thy servant, and teach me thy biddings. Mine eyes gush out with water, because men keep not thy law. righteous art thou: Oh Lord, and true is thy judgement. The testimonies that thou haste commanded: are exceeding righteous and true. My zeal hath even consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Thy word is tried unto the uttermost, and thy servant loveth it. I am small, & of no reputation, yet do I not forget thy commandments. Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is true. Trouble & heaviness have taken hold upon me, yet is my delight in thy commandments. The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting, Oh grant me understanding: and I shall live. I call with my hole heart, hear me: Oh Lord. I will keep thy statutes. Yea: even upon thee, I do call, help me: and I shall keep thy testimonies. Early in the morning do I cry unto thee, for in thy word is my trust. Mine eyes prevent the might watches, that I might be occupied in thy words. Hear my voice, Oh LORD, according unto thy loving kindness, quicken me according as thou art wont. They draw nigh, that of malice persecute me, and are far from thy law Be thou nigh at hand also, oh Lord for thy promises are faithful. As concerning thy testimonies. I have known ever sithence the beginning, that thou haste grounded them for ever. Oh consider mine adversity, and deliver me, for I do not forget thy law maintain thou my cause, and defend me: quicken me, according unto thy word. Health is far from the ungodly, for they regard not thy statutes. Great is thy mercy Oh Lord, quicken me as thou art wont. Many there are that trouble me, and pursue me, yet do not I swarm from thy records. It grieveth me when I see that the transgressors keep not thy law. Consider, Oh Lord, how I love thy commandments, and quicken me with thy loving kindness Thy word is true for ever, all the judgements of thy righteousness, endure for evermore. The tyrants persecute me without cause, but my heart standeth in awe of thy words, I am as glad of thy word, as one that findeth great spoils. I hate and abhor lies, but thy law do I love. Seven times a day do I praise thee, becauce of thy righteous judgements. Great is the peace that they have which love thy law: and they are not offended at it. Lord I look for thy saving health, and do after thy commandments. My soul keepeth thy records, and loveth them exceedingly. I keep thy commandments and testimonies: for all my ways are before thee, Let my complaint come before thee, Oh LORD, give me understanding a 'cording unto thy word. Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me, a 'cording unto thy promise. My lips shall speak of thy praise, seeing thou hast taught me thy ordinances. Yea, my tongue shall sing thy word. For all thy commandments are right, let thine hand help me: for I have chosen thy commandments. I long for thy saving health, Oh Lord: and in thy law is my delight. Oh let my soul live and praise thee, that thy judgements may help me. I go astray, like a sheep that is lost, seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.   

¶ When we are bruised and humbled in heart, and contrariwise the world rejoiceth and triumpheth. Psal. 130.  
OVte of the deep call I unto thee: Oh Lord, LORD hear my voice. Let thine ears consider well, the voice of my complaint If thou Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, oh Lord who may abide it? But there is mercy with thee: that thou mayst be feared. I look for the Lord, my soul doth wait for him, & in his word is my trust. My soul doth patiently abide the Lord, from the one morning to the other. Let Israel trust in the Lord, for with the Lord is mer●ye, and plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his sins.   

¶ To be delivered from blood souppers, that busy themselves to pluck us from the way of God both by force and crafty means, and which labour to abolish God's word. Psal. 140.  
deliver me Oh Lord, from the evil men, preserve me from the wicked men which imagine mischief in their hearts, and stir up strife at all seasons. They sharpen their tongues like a serpent adders poison is under their lips. Keep me, oh Lord, from the hand of the ungodly, preserve me from the wycken men, which are purposed too overthrow my goings. The proud hath laid a snare for me, and spread a net abroad with cords, yea: and set traps in my way. But my saying is unto the Lord, thou art my God, hear the voice of my prayer: oh Lord. Oh Lord God thou strength of my health thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. Let not the ungodly have his desire. Oh Lord, let him not have his purpose, least he be to proud. Let the mischeft of their own lips fall upon the head of them, that compass me about Let hot burning coals fall upon them, let them be cast into the fire, & into the pit, that they never rise up again A man full of words shall not prosper upon the earth, a malicious and wicked person shall be hunted away and destroyed. Sure I am that the Lord will avenge the poor, and maintain the cause of the helpless. The rightutuouse also shall give thanks unto thy name, and the just shall continue in thy sight.   

¶ That GOD may keep us that we sin not with our tongue, neither excuse our sins as hypocrites do. Psal. 141.  
LOrd, I call upon thee: haste thee unto me, and consider my voice When I cry unto thee, let my prayer be set forth in thy sight, as incense, and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice, Set a watch: Oh Lord, before my mouth yea a watch at the door of my lips Oh, let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing, to be minded as the ungodly or wicked men, least I eat of such things as please them Let the righteous rather smite me friendly: and reprove me, so will I take it, as though he had poured oil upon my head, it shall not hurt my head, but I will pray yet for their wickedness. Their judges stumble at the stone, yet hear they my words. that they be joyful. Our bones lie scattered before the pit, like as when one graveth and diggeth up the ground. But mine eyes look unto thee, Oh Lord God: in thee is my trust, cast not out my soul: keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, and from the traps of the wicked doers. Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together, until I be go by them.   

¶ That we may be led forth of the prison of distress, of sins & of death unto the praise and glory of God, that we be no longer pressed upon earth. Psal. 146.  
I Cry unto the Lord with my voice, yea even unto the Lord do I make my supplication. I pour out my complaint before him, and show him of my trouble. When my spirit is in heaviness, for thou knowest my path, in the way wherein I walk, have they privily laid a snare for me. I took up my right hand, and see: there is no man that will know me. I have no place to flee unto no man careth for my soul. Therefore do I cry unto thee: Oh Lord, and say thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living. Consider my complaint, for I am brought very low, oh deliver me from my persecutors: for they are to strong for me. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks unto thy name. Which thing if thou wilt grant me, then shall the righteous resort unto my company   

¶ When we find no merits in us, no righteousness of our own, but all things desperate. And again remember how God from the beginning of the world hath wrought wonders in his saints, and hath never forsaken such as call upon him, thus may we pray. Psal. 143.  
Hear my prayer Oh Lord, consider my desire, answer me for thy troth and r●hteousnes sake, and enter not into judgement with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified. For the enemy persecuteth my soul, he smiteth my life down to the ground, he layeth me in the darkness as the dead men of the world. Therefore is my spirit vexed within me, & my heart within me is desolate. Yet do I remember the times past, I muse upon all thy works. Yea I exercise myself in the works of thy hands. I stretch forth mine hands unto thee, my soul crieth unto thee, out of the thirsty land. Hear me Oh Lord, and that right soon, for my spirit waxeth faint, hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the grave. Oh let me hear thy loving kindness be times in the morning, for in that is my trust, show thou me the way that I should walk in, for I lift up my soul unto three. deliver me (Oh Lord) from mine enemies, for I resort unto thee. Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee, for thou art my God: let thy loving spirit lead me forth unto the land of righteousness. quicken me Oh Lord, for thy name's sake: and for thy righteousness sake, bring my soul out of trouble. And of thy goodness scatter mine enemies abroad, and destroy all them that vex my soul, for I am thy servant.   

¶ A thanksgiving, that albeit we be vile, yet by the virtue of God we be strong against all strange children that is to say, such as be not chosen ●o the inheritance of God. Psal. 144.  
BLessed be the Lord my refuge, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight My hope and my castle, my defence, and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I trust which governeth the people that is under my power. Lord what is man, that thou hast such respect unto him? or the son of man, that thou so regardest him? man is like a thing of nought, his time passeth away like a shadow. Bow thy heavens, oh Lord, & come down, touch the mountains that they may smoke again. Send forth lightning & scatter them, shoot out thine arrows, & consume them. Send down thine hand from above, deliver me, & take me out of the great waters, from the hand of strange children. Whose mouth talkyeth of vanity, and their right hand is all falsehood. That I may sing a new song unto thee, oh God, and sing praises unto thee upon a ten stringed lute. Thou that givest victory unto kings, and hast delivered David thy servant from the peril of the sword. Save me and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth talketh of vanity, and their right hand, is a right hand of falsehood, that our sons may grow up like young plants, a that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple. That our garments may be full and plenteous with all manner of store, that our sheep may bring forth thousands, and hundredth thousa●des, in our villages. That our oxen may be strong to labour, that there be no mischance ne decay, and no complaining in our streets. Happy are the people that be in such a case. Yea blessed are the people, which have the lord for their god   

¶ A praising of God for his marvelous mercy, & the eternal reign of his clemency, which provideth for all his creatures, and in especial for such as fear him. Psal. 145.  
I Will magnify thee, Oh God my king, I will praise thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I give th●nkes unto thee, and praise thy name for ever and ever. Great is the LORD, and marvelous worthy to be praised, there is no end of his greatness. One generation shall praise thy works to another, and declare thy power. As for me I shall be talking of thy worship, thy glory, thy praise, thy wondrous works. So that men shall speak of the might of thy marvelous acts, and tell of thy greatness. The memorial of thine abundant kindness shall be showed, and men shall sing of thy righteousness. The LORD is gracious and merciful, long suffering, and of great goodness. The Lord is loving unto every man, & his mercy is over all his works. All thy works praise thee oh Lord, & thy saints give thanks unto thee. They show the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power. That thy power thy glory & mightiness of thy kingdom, mighty be known unto men. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion endureth through out all ages. The Lord upholdeth all such as should fall, and lifteth up all those that be down. The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest they their meat in due season. Thou openest thy hand, and fillest all things living with plenteousness. The Lord is righteous in all his ways and holy in his works. The Lord is nigh unto they that call upon him so that the call upon him faithfully. He fulfilleth the desire of them that fear him, he heareth their cry and helpeth them. The Lord preserveth all them that love him, but scattereth abroad all the ungodly. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy name, for ever & ever. Praise the everlasting.   

¶ A praise of God, that in only God the everlasting king we ought to trust & not in princes, in power, in wisdom, or in the rsghteousnes of the elements of this world. Psal. 146.  
Praise the Lord, oh my soul, while I leave will I praise the Lord. Yea as long as I have any being, I will sing praises unto my God. Oh put not your trust in princes, nor in any child of man, for there is no help in them. For when the breathe of man goeth forth, he shall turn again unto his earth and so all his thoughts perish. Blessed is he that hath the God of jacob for his help, & whose hope is in the lord his God. Which made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is. Which keepeth his promise for ever Which helpeth them to right that suffer wrong, which feedeth the hungry. The Lord looseth men out of prison, the Lord giveth sight to the blind. The Lord helpeth them up that are fallen, the Lord loveth the righteous. The Lord careth for the strangers, he detendeth the fatherless, and the widow. But the way of the ungodly turneth he upside down The Lord thy God, oh Zion, he is king for evermore, & throughout all generations. Praise the everlasting   

¶ A praising of the lords name. Psal. 147.  
Praise ye the Lord, for it is a good thing to sing praises unto our God. Yea a joyful and a pleasant thing it is, to be thankful. The Lord shall build up Jerusalem, and gather together the outcasts of Israel. He heal the the tontrite heart, and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the numbered of the stars, and calleth them all by their names. Great is our Lord, and great is his power, yea his wisdom is infinite. The Lord setteth up the mieke, and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground. Oh sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving sing prases upon the harp unto our God. Which covereth the heaven with clouds, prepareth rain for the earth, and maketh the grass to grow upon the mountains. Which giveth fodre unto the cattle, and fiedeth the young ravens that call upon him He hath no pleasure in the strength of an horse, neither delighteth he in any man's legs. But the lords delight is in them that fear him, and put their trust in his mercy. Praise the Lord Oh Jerusalem, praise thy God, oh Zion, for he maketh fast the bars of the gates, and blesseth the children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the flower of wheat. He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth, his word runneth swiftly. He giveth snow like wool, and scattereth the door frost like ashes. He casteth forth his ise like morsels, who is able to abide his frost? He sendeth out his word and melteth them He bloweth with his wind, and the waters flow. He showeth his word unto jacob, his statutes & ordinances unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with all the Heathen, neither have they acknowledge of his laws.   

¶ A praising of God from all his creatures, first heavenly and then earthly. Psal. 148.  
OH praise the Lord of heaven, praise him in the heigh. Praise him all his angels, praise him all his host. Praise him sun and moon, praise him all ye stars and light Praise him all ye heavens and ye waters, that be under the heavens Let them praise the name of the Lord for he speak the word & they were made He hath made them fast for ever and ever. He hath given them a law which shall not be broken. Praise the Lord upon earth ye whale fishes, and all deeps. Fire and hail snow and vapours, wind & storm fulfilling his word. Mountains and hills, fruitful tries and all cedars. Beasts and cattle, worms and feathered fowls, kings of the earth and all people. Princes & all judges of the world, young men and maidens, old men and children, let them praise the name of the Lord. For his name only is excellent, & all his praise above heaven and earth. He exalteth the horn of his people, all his saints shall praise him, the children of Israel even the people that serveth him   

¶ A praising of God in himself that he is holy and hallowing, strong and strengthing, great & making great. Psal. 150  
OH praise the Lord in his sanctuary, praise him in the firmament of his power: Praise him in his noble acts, praise him in his excellent greatness. Praise him in the sound of the trumpet, praise him upon the lute and harp. Praise him in the symbales & dance, praise him upon the sitynges and pipe. Praise him upon the well tuned symbales, praise him upon the loud symbales let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.   

¶ Against the enemy of the truth. Psal. 35.  
STirue thou with them, oh lord that strive with me, fight thou against them, that fight against me. Lay hand upon the shield and spear, & stand up to help me. Draw out thy sword and stop the way against them that persecute me, say unto my soul, I am thy help. Let them be confounded & put to shame that seek after my soul. Let them be turned back & brought to confusion that imagine mischief for me. Let them be as the dust before the wind and the angel of the lord scattering them. Let their way be dark & slippery, & the angel of the lore to persecute them. For they have previly laid their net to destroy me without a cause. Yea & made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved. Let a sudden destruction come upon them unwaers, and the net that they have laid previly, catch themselves, that they may fall into their own mischief. But let my soul be joyful in the Lord, and rejoice in his help. Al my bones shall say, lord who is like unto thee? Which delivereste the poor from those that are to strong for him. Yea the poor and needy from his robbers. False witness are risen up, and lay to my charge, things that I know not. They reward me evil for good, to the great discomfort of my soul. Nevertheless when they were sick I put on a seek cloth. I humbled my soul with fasting, & my prayer turned into my bosom. I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I went heavily as one that mo●●neth for his mother. But in myn● ad●●●s●tie they rejoice, and gath●●●heim together. Yea the very ●●me c●me together against me unwaers, making mows at me, and cease not. With the greydie and scornful hypocrites they gnashed upon me with their tech Lord when wilt thou look upon this? Restore my soul from the wicked rumour of them, my darling from the lions. So will I give thee thanks in the great congregation & praise thee among much people. Oh let them not triumph over me, that are mine enemies causeless. Let them not wink with their eyes that hate me with out a cause. And why? their communing is not of peace, but they imagine false words against the out casts of the land. They gape upon me with their mouths, saying there there, we see it with ●ur eyes. This thou seest, Oh Lord, hold not thy tongue then, god not far from me O Lord. A wake Lord and stand ●p, avenge thou my cause my God & my Lord. judge me Oh Lord my God a 'cording to thy righteousness, tha● they triumph not over me. Oh let them not say in their hearts, there there, so would we have it, let them no● say we have overcome him. Let them be put to confusion and shame that repayse at my trouble. Let them be clo●●ed with rebuke & dishonour that host themselves against me. Let 〈◊〉 also be glad and rejoice, which ●●uoure my righteous dealing. Yea let them say alway Blessed be the Lord which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. And as for my tongue, it shallbe talking of thy righteousness, and of thy praise, all the day long.   

¶ This psalm because it is all together evangelical, and teacheth the contempt of this world, we have put it at the end to th'intent that in all our tribulation and in the pride of the wicked we may comfort ourselves. Let no day pass thee, but thou read this. Psal. 37.  
FRet not thyself at the ungodly be not thou envious against the evil doers. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and be withered even as the green berbe Put thou thy trust in the Lord, and be doing good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily it shall feed thee. Delight thou in the Lord, and he shall give thee thy hearts desire, Commit thy way unto the Lord, set thy hope in him, and he shall bring it to pass. He shall make thy righteousness as clear as the light, and thy just dealing as the none day. Hold thee still in the lord, & abide patiently about him. But grieve not thyself at one that hath prosperity, and liveth in abomination, Leave of from wrath let go displeasure, let not thy gelowsye move thee also to do evil. For wicked doers shallbe rooted out, but they that patiently abide the lord shall inherit the land. Suffer yet a little while, and the ungodly shallbe clean gone, thou shalt look after his place and he shall be away. But the meek spirited shall possess the earth, and have pleasure in much rest. The ungodly layeth wait for the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. But the Lord laugheth him to scorn for he seeth that his day is coming. The godly draw out the sword, and bend their bow to cast down the simple and poor, and to slay such as go the right way. Nevertheless their sword shall go through their own heart and their bow shall be broken. A small thing that the righteous hath, is better than great riches of the ungodly. For the arm of the ungodly shallbe broken, but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. The Lord knoweth the days of the godly, and their inheritance endureth for ever. They shall not be confounded in the perilous time, & in the days of dearth they shall have enough. As for the ungodly they shall perish, and when the enemies of the Lord are in their flowers they shall consume. Yea even as the smoke shall they consume a way The ungodly borroweth and payeth not again, but the righteous is merciful and liberal. Such as be blessed of him, shall possess the land, & they whom he curseth shall be rooted out. The Lord ordereth a good man's going, and hath pleasure in his way. Though he fall he shall not be hurt, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. I have been young and now am old, yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed to seek their bread. The righteous is ever merciful, and dareth gently therefore shall his seed be blessed. Flee from evil, and do the thing that is good, so shalt thou dwell for ever, For the Lord loveth the thing that ●s right, he forsaketh not his saints, but they shall be preserved for ever, as for the seed of the ungodly: it shall be rooted out. Yea the righteous shall possess the land, & dwell therein for ever. The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgement. The law of his God is in his heart, therefore shall not his footsteps slide. The ungodly seeth the righteous, and goeth about to flee him. But the Lord will not leave him in his hands, nor condemn him when he is judged. Hope thou in the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall so promote thee, that thou shalt have the land by inheritance, and see: when the ungodly shall perish. I myself have sent the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay tree, but when I went by, lo: he was go. I sought him, but he could no where be found. Keep innocency: and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last. As for the transgressors: they shall perish together, and the ungodly shall be rooted out at the last. The help of the righteous cometh of the LORD, he is their strength in the time of trouble. The Lord shalt stand by them, and save them. He shall deliver them from the ungodly, and help them, because they put their trust in him.    

¶ CERTAIN Prayers short and of divers sorts.  

¶ The prayer of Moses at the removing of the tents. Nume. 10.  
RIse up Lord, let thine enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee: flee before thee. And when the ark rested, he said. Return LORD unto the multitude of the host of Israel.   

¶ The prayer of Aaron and Moses, for their sister Mari: stricken with the leper. Nume. 12.  
OH I beseech thee my LORD put not the sin upon us, which we have foolishly committed, that this woman be not as one that came forth dead out of her mother's womb.   

¶ The prayer of Moses unto the Lord that he mought pass up into the land of behest. Deut. 3.  
OH Lord God, thou haste begun to show unto thy servant thy greatness and thy most mighty hand, for there is none other God either in heaven or in earth, that can do thy works, and be compared to thy strength. Let me go therefore over: and see the good land that is beyond jordane that goodly high country, and Lybanon   

Esay. 33.  
THe Lord shall be our captain the Lord shall be our law giver. The Lord shall be our King, and he himself shall be our saviour.   

Esay. 45.  
I Am he, I am he saith the Lord that for mine ownself's sake do away thine offences, and forget thy sins, so that I will never think upon them. Put me now in remembrance (for we will reason together) and show what thou haste for thee, to make thee quite.   

Esay. 45.  
Turn unto me: all ye coasts of the earth, sayeth the Lord: so shall ye be saved. I am the God, and there is else none. I swear by myself, out of my mouth cometh the word of righteousness, & that may no man turn, but all knees shall bow unto me, and all tongues shall swear unto me saying. Verily in the Lord is my righteousness & strength To him shall men come, but all they that think scorn of him, shall be confounded, And the hole sede of Israel shall be justified, and praised in the Lord   

Esay. 53.  
Seek the Lord while he may be found. And call upon him while he is nigh. Let the ungodly man forsake his ways: and the unrighteous his imaginations, and turn again unto the Lord: so shall he be merciful unto him, and to our God for he is ready to forgive.   

Hie. 10.  
THere is none like unto thee, oh Lord. Great art thou & great is the name of thy power. Who would not fear thee? Or what king of the Gentiles would not obey thee For among all the wise men of the gentiles, & in all their kingdoms there is none that may be likened unto thee.   

Hie. 10.  
Now I know (oh Lord) that it is not in man's power, to order his own ways, or to rule his own steps and goings. Therefore chasten thou us, oh Lord: but with favour & not in thy wrath: bring us not utterly to nought.   

Hie. 14.  
WE knowledge (Oh Lord) all our misdeeds, & the sins of our fathers, for we have offended thee. Be not displeased (oh LORD) for thy name's sake, forget not thy loving kindness. Remember the throne of thy glory: break not thy covenant that thou haste made with us. Are there any among the gods of the Heathen, that sendeth rain: or giveth the showers of heaven? doest not thou it oh Lord God, in whom we trust? Yea Lord, thou doest all these things.   

Hie. 16.  
OH Lord my strength, my power and refuge in time of trouble.   

Hie. 31.  
I Will plant my law, saith the Lord: in the inward parts of them: and writ it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And from thence forth shall no man teach his neighbour or his brother, and say know the Lord. But they shall all know me from the lowest unto the highest, sayeth the Lord. For I will forgive their misdeeds: and will never remember their sins any more. Thus saith the Lord which gave the son to be a light for the day, and the moan & stars to shine in the night Which moveth the sea, so that the floods thereof wax fierce, the Lord almighty is his name.   

Eze. 33.  
AS truly as I live, sayeth the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but much rather that the wicked turn from his way and live.   

Micheas. 7.  
WHere is there O Lord, such a God as thou? that pardonest wickedness, and forgive the offences of the remnant of thine heritage? He keepeth not his wrath for ever. And why? his delight is to have compassion, he shall turn again and be merciful unto us. He shall put down our wickedness, and cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea. Thou shalt keep thy trust with jacob, and thy mercy for Abraham, as thou haste sworn unto our fathers long ago.   

Ecclesi. 36.  
Have mercy upon us, oh Lord, thou God of all, have respect unto us, show us the light of thy mercies, & send thy fear among the Heathen and strangers, which seek not after thee, that they may know there is no God but thou, that they may show thy wondrous works. lift up thine hand over the outlandyshe heathen, that they may learn to know thy might and power. Like as thou art hallowed in us before them: so bring to pass that thou mayst be magnified in them also before us, that they may know thee, like as we know thee. For there is none other God, but thou only, oh Lord renew the tokens, and change the wondrous works. Show thy hand and thy right arm gloriously. Raise up thy indignation, and power out thy wrath. Take away the adversary and the enemy. Make the time short: remember thy covenant, that thy wondrous works may be praised. Let the fire of the wrath consume them, that live so careless: and let them perish that do thy people hurt. Smite in sunder the heads of the Princes, that be our enemies: and say there is none other but we. Gather thy little flock together again, that they may know there is none other God but only thou: that they may show thy wondrous works, and be thy people and heritage, like as from the beginning. Oh Lord, have mercy upon the people that hath thy name, & upon Israel, whom thou hast likened to a first borne son Oh be merciful unto Israel the city of thy sanctification, the city of thy rest. Fill Zion with thy unspeakable virtues, and thy people with thy glory. give witness unto thy creature, whom thou madest from the beginning: and raise up the prophecies that have been showed in thy name. Reward thou them that wait for the that thy Prophets may be found faithful. Oh Lorlde, hear the prayer of thy servants, a 'cording to the blessing of Aaron over thy people, that all they which dwell upon the earth may know, that thou art the Lord the eternal GOD, which is from everlasting.   

Ecclesi. 41.  
OH death: how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that seeketh rest, and comfort in his substance and richesse, unto the man that hath nothing to vere him, & that hath prosperity in all things, yea to him that yet is able for to receive meat oh death how acceptable & good is thy judgement unto the needful, and unto him whose strength faileth, and that is now in his last age, and that in all things is full of care and fearfulness, unto him also that is in despair, and hath no hope nor patience Be not thou afraid of death, remember them that have been afore thee, and that come after thee, for this is the judgement of the Lord: over all flesh. And why wouldst thou be against this pleasure of the highest? Whether it be ten, an hundredth, or a thousand years, death asketh not how long one hath lived.    

PSALMS OF DAVID against tyrants and persecutors of God's word.  

¶ That all such as live in Satan's bondage may come to the knowledge of the faith in jesus Christ.  
LORD help, for there is not one saint more, very few faithful are there amongs the children of men every man telleth lies to his nyghboure, they do but flatter with their lips & dissemble in their hearts Oh that the Lord would root out all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things Which say our tongue should prevail, we are they that ought to speak who is Lord over us? Now for the troubles sake of the oppressed, and because of the complaint of the poor: I will up (saith the Lord) I will help them, & set them at rest. The words of the Lord are pure words, even as the silver, which from earth is tried and purified vii times in the fire. Keep them therefore (oh Lord) & preserve us from this generation for ever. And why? when vanity and idleness getteth the overhand amongst the children of men, all are full of the ungodly.   

¶ For ruler's and for common peace. Psal. 20  
THe Lord mought hear thee in time of trouble, the name of the God of jacob might defend thee, and send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion. Remember will he all thy offerings and accept thy brent sacrifice. He shall grant thee thy hearts desire, & fulfil all thy mind. We will rejoice in thy health: and triumph in the name of the Lord our God, for the Lord will perform all thy petitions, Now know I that the Lord helpeth his anointed: and will hear him from his holy heaven, mighty is the help of his right hand. Some put their trust in charettes and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They are brought down: and fallen: but we are risen & stand up right. Save Lord and help us: Oh king when we call upon thee.   

¶ Against the enemies of the people of God, tyrants: heretics, and raging wolves. Psal. 83.  
Hold not thy tongue oh God, keep not still silence: refrain not thyself Oh God. For lo, thine enemies a: and they that hate thee: lift up their head. They imagine craftily against thy people, and conspire against thy secrets. Come (say they) let us root them out from among the people, that the name of Israel may be put out of remembrance. For they have cast their heads together with one consent and are confederate against thee. The tabernacles of the Edomites and Ismaelytes the Moabites & Haparenes: Gegal, Amon & Amalech the Phylistins with them that dwell at tire. Assur also is joined with them and help the children of Loth. But too thou unto them as unto the Madianytes, unto Gysera, and unto jabin by the brook of kyson. Which perished at Endor, and became as the dung of the earth. Make their princes like Oreb and zeb: yea make all their princes like zebea and Salmona, which said we will challenge unto us the houses of God. Oh my god make them like a wheel, and as the stouble before the wind, Like as a fire that burneth up the wood, and as the slame that consumeth the mountains. Persecute them even so with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. Make their face ashamed, oh Lord, that they may seek thy name. Let them be confounded and vexed ever more & more, let them be put to shame & perish. That they may know that thou art alone, that thy name is the Lord, and that thou only art the most highest over all the earth. .    

❧ THE TESTAMENT of Moses. Deuteronomii the xxxii chapter.  
hearken heavens what I will speak, let the earth hear the words of my mouth, let my doctrynegather and wax in to rain my speech may flow as the dew, as the shower upon the grass, and as the drops upon the blades of corn, for I will call on the name of the Lord. give ye magnificence and bountiful praise unto our God, the works of God be perfect & all his ways are judgements. The Lord is faithful and without all iniquity, just and right. They have offended him. They that were not his children have offended him in filthiness. Thou crooked and perverse generation doest yield these to the Lord, thou foolish & unwise people? Is not he thy father which hath possessed thee and made thee, & created thee? Remember the old days, considre each generation. Ask thy father & he shall show thee, thy ancestors and they shall tell thee, when the most high Lord divided the people, when he severed the children of Adam, he ordained the ends of peoples, a 'cording to the number of the children of Israel. And the part of the Lord, is his people, jacob is the cord of his inheritance. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and huge wilderness. He compassed him about & taught him and kept him as the ball of his eye. Like as the Eagle provoking her birds to fly and flickering upon them casteth abroad her wings & taketh up her bird & beareth it upon her shoulders. Only the Lord was his guide & there was not with him any strange God. He did set him upon an high land that he should eat the fruits of the fields, that he should suck honey of the rock, & oil of the most hard stone. Butter of the kine & milk of yewes with the fatness of lambs & wethers (of the children of Basan.) And the goats, with flower of wheat, & to drink the blood of the grape most pure. The beloved was encrassat and winched again, engrossed, fatted, spread abroad He forsook god his maker & departed from god his saviour. They provoked him with strange gods & stirred him to anger in their abominations They did sacrifice to devils & not to god, to gods which they knew not New and fresh gods came which their fathers worshipped not. The god that begat thee, thou hast forsaken thou hast forgotten the Lord thy creature. The Lord saw it and was stirred to wrath, for their sons & daughters have provoked him & he said. I will hide my face fro them & consider the ends of them, for it is a crooked generation & the children are unfaithful. They have provoked me in him that was no God and have angered me with their vanities. And I will provoke them by them that is not my people by the foolish Gentiles I will anger them. The fire burned in my fury and it shall burn to the uttermost of hell, and it shall devour the earth with the fruit thereof, and it shall burn the foundations of the mountains. I will gather evils upon them and mine arrows I will finish upon them. They shall be consumed with famine and the birds shall devour them with most bitter biting I will send upon them the teeth of wild beasts drawing them with fury upon the earth, and of serpents Without shall the sword make havoc of them, and within the young man and also the ujrgin, the sucking child with the aged man, & I said Where be they? I will cause that the memory of them shall cease among men. But for because of anger of their enemies I have differred it, lest perchance their enemies would wax proud and say. Our hand is puissant and mighty and not the Lord hath done all these things. The people is without counsel and without prudence, would God they were wise and understood and foresaw the ends. How one hath persecuted a thousand, and two hath put to flight ten thousand? It is not because their God hath sold them and the Lord hath enclosed them, for our God is not as their gods, and our enemies be judges. Of the vinyeard of the Sodomes' is their vine, and of the suburbs of Gomorra. Their grape is the grape of Gall and the cluster is most sour. The gall of dragons is their wine and venom of asps insanable. Be not these things laid up with me & sealed among my treasures. Mine is the vengeance and I will pay them in time, that their fore may slide. The day of perdition is at hand, and the times hasten to be present. The Lord shall judge his people, and in his servants he will have pity. He shall see that their hand is enfeabled, and they also that were kept in, fainted, and the rest were consumed & he shall say. Where be their gods in whom they had confidence? Of whose sacrifices they did eat the fate & drank Libamine wine Let them rise & help you, and in your necessity protect you. Behold that I am alone and there is none other God but I. I shall kill and I shall make alive. I shall strike and I shall heal, and there is none that can pluke out of my hand. I will lift up my hand to heaven and say: I live for evermore. If I make sharp as, the lightning my sword and my hand take judgement, I will take vengeance upon mine enemies and I will acquit them that hate me I will make mine arrows drunken with their blood & my sword shall devour their flesh. Of the blood of the slain and of the captivity of the barchedde of his enemies. Commend ye Gentiles his people, for the blood of his servants he will revenge, and he will yield vengeance upon their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.  

¶ The prayer of the Centurion. Matth. 9  
Lord I am not worthy that thou shouldest entre under the roof of my house, but only speak with a word of thy mouth and I shall be healed.   

¶ The prayer of the thief on the cross Luke xxiii  
LORD remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.    

❧ A TABLE OF ❧ the contens of this book.  

¶ Prayers for the sins of the people.  

¶ The prayer of Moses to the Lord for the sins of the people. 1.  
¶ An other prayer of Moses to the same. 1.  
¶ For the sin of the people what time they murmured, a prayer of Moses. 1.  
¶ An other of Moses and Aaron for the people. 1.  
¶ For the stubbornness of the people the true preacher on this wise as Moses did, may make his prayer unto God. 2.  
¶ The prayer of Solomon in the dedication of the temple of Jerusalem. 2  
¶ A prayer of Esdras for the sins of the people. 3.  
¶ The prayer of Nehemias for the sins of the people before the lord 4  
¶ A confession and solemn prayer of the Levites and of the church for sins with a rehearsal of the benefits of God. 5.  
¶ A prayer of the church for sins. 9  
¶ Another for sins. 9  
¶ The lamentation of Hieremy for the sins of the people. 10.  
¶ The prayer that Baruche prescribed unto the captives in Babylon for their sins. 11.  
¶ The prayer of Daniel the prophet for his own sins and for the sins of the whole nation. 14.    

¶ Prayers in time of adversity, and for a man's own sins.  

¶ The prayer of jacob to be delivered from his brother Esau. 16.  
¶ The prayer of josua that time the people fled in the battle. 16.  
¶ A prayer and an open confession of the people of Israel to be delivered from their enemy. 17.  
¶ The prayer of Samson unto god that he might revenge him, against the Philistines. 17.  
¶ In wars against Turks & invadoures, the prayer of king Asa 17  
¶ An other of king josaphat. 17.  
¶ The prayer of Nehemias what time the Heathen defied him. 18.  
¶ If God send thee trouble either for a punishment of thy sins or to prove thy patience therewith, pray thus. 18.  
¶ The prayer of Manasses king of juda, when he was in prison, for remission of sins, and for god's favour and deliverance. 19  
¶ The prayer of judith for the deliverance of her country from the tyrant. 20.  
¶ An other prayer of judith whiles she went about to i'll the enemy Holofernes. 21.  
¶ The prayer of Mardocheus in the pursuit of Haman for all the jews nation. 21.  
¶ The prayer of quine Hester for her and all her country men. 22.  
¶ The oration and blessing of job in his most grievous adversity and loss of goods. 24.  
¶ A prayer that we may be delivered from our adversaries. 24.  
¶ The prayer of Isaiah when the people were sore plagued. 24.  
¶ An other prayer of Hieremie. 26.  
¶ An other of Hieremie. 26.  
¶ A prayer of Hieremie under the person of christ, which every christian may say in time of adversity. 26.  
¶ A prayer of Hieremie in the day of trouble, and in the destruction of Jerusalem. 27.  
¶ The prayer of Susanna when she was in danger to be ravished of the two elders. 28  
¶ another prayer that she made when she should have been led to death. 28.  
¶ The prayer of jonas when he was as yet in the fishes belly. 28.  
¶ The prayer of judas Machabeus when he should encounter with his enemies. 29.  
¶ The prayer of the priests against the tyrant that he might not prosper against the holiness of God. 29.  
¶ The prayer of Nehemias and the priests for the people oppressed of the Heathen. 30.  
¶ The prayer of Eleazar when he was drawn to execution and ready to die. 30.    

¶ Thankesgevinges and praises unto GOD of the Fathers.  

¶ The song of Moses and the children of Israel for their deliverance from Pharaoh. 31.  
¶ The form of blessing the children of Israel. 32.  
¶ Anna thanking the LORD of his benefit, on this manner singeth to God. 32.  
¶ For the benefits received at god's hand, the prayer of David. 33.  
¶ A song that David song unto the Lord in the day that the Lord delivered him out of the hand of his enemies. 35.  
¶ A blessing of Tobias the elder, wherewith he blessed the Lord in the end of his life. 37.  
¶ The thanksgiving and song of judith for victory and for the delivery of the country from their enemies. 38.  
¶ The blessing of Seraphin. 39  
¶ thankings. 39  
¶ An other of the same. 40.  
¶ A blessing with an admiration of the marvelous counsailles of god 40  
¶ The song of thanksgiving of Mary the virgin. 41.  
¶ The prophesy and giving of thanks of Zatharie. 41.  
¶ The praise of the angels at the birth of Christ. 42.  
¶ giving of thanks of Simion 42  
¶ Thanks of Paul for his conversion unto Christ. 42.  
¶ A song of the triumphers over the beast. 42.  
¶ A blessing of the people by king Solomon. 43.  
¶ The blessings and prayers of S Ambrose and Austyne. 43.    

¶ Prayers for succours and rele●fes of life, for wisdom for humility, and for other natural gifts.  

¶ The request of jacob for sustentation and relief of this present life. 45  
¶ The prayer of Anna unto the lord that she might obtain a child. 45.  
¶ The prayer of Solomon for wisdom well to govern his people, daily to be prayed of all princes and other rulers. 45.  
¶ A prayer of Solomon for a competency of life. 46.  
¶ A prayer for obtaining of wisdom. 46.  
¶ A prayer for meekness and the obtaining of chastity. 47.  
¶ The prayer of jesus the son of Siracke, in necessity and for wisdom. 47.  
¶ The prayer of Abacuc the prophet for ignorauncies. 49.  
¶ The prayer of our Lord jesus which he taught his deciples. 49  
¶ A prayer of the faithful congregation that they may speak the word of God boldly. 50.  
¶ A prayer of Christ unto his father for his little ones, which trust and repose themselves upon him. 50.    

¶ Certain Psalms picked forth meet for daily prayers unto GOD.  

¶ To be delivered from the ungodly that we perish not with them that endeavour by all means to withdraw us from the way of truth, and that all good men, may continually be environed with god's protection 52  
¶ Too escape god's wrath and to obtain his mercy, so shalt thou pray with David. 53.  
¶ If thou be falsely belied, and maligned of thine adversary, acustome thyself to that prayer of David which he song to the Lord upon the words of the son of jemini. 54  
¶ A sanctifiing for the mercy of God showed us in temptations, and adversities and for the marvelous subversion, and destruction of our adversaries. 55.  
¶ A lamentation and wailing unto God, white antichrist triumpheth and sleeth the holy ones of God, persecuteth the Gospel. 56  
¶ That we be not wrapped in the blindness of the wicked, and that we perish not for ever. 58.  
¶ That the heavenly father will not suffer us to shrink at so mighty adversaries and so cruelly pursuing, while we be full of all pleasures of the world, so we may pray with the prophet praying in the person of christ. 58.  
¶ With much affiance of heart upon God a prayer for sin and for the granting of his holy spirit, for it is not possible but God will hear us a 'cording to Christ's promise in the Gospel. 59  
¶ In the affliction or passion both of the spirit and of the flesh, so may we pray with Christ and with the godly. 60.  
¶ A sainctifiing of god, for that the earth is full of his mercy, and that by his mighty word he wrought all things. 62.  
¶ A stablishement of the mind against such as sklander us that we again upbraid not them, which thing is a great gift of God. 63.  
¶ For remission of sins and of evil lusts that flove in us. 64  
¶ A godly prayer against the enemies. 65.  
¶ That being lightened with god's grace we may know here in earth the way that leadeth to god which is a sure confident upon god and charity towards the neighbour. 66.  
¶ Against Antichrist, pursuing and killing the holy ones of god and defiling the mysteries of God's word. 66.  
¶ A prayer and yielding of thanks for that we be redeemed by christ from eternal death. 67.  
¶ When we be clean put out of all comfort, we may pray with the prophet in the person of Christ 68  
¶ A bewailing of our corrupt nature, and of the misery of this life by reason of sin. 69.  
¶ A sainctification of the lords name for that he made all things and all be in his hand. 70.  
¶ Whiles we seem to be in the mids of tribulation & forsaken of men yea and of God also. 71.  
¶ A merry thanksgiving for all the benefits conferred unto us by christ. 73  
¶ another giving of thanks and praise. 74.  
¶ A hallowing and praising of the Lord, that he marvelously advanceth his as well in heaven as in earth 76.  
¶ A commendation of the lords mercy that he hath vouchsafe to call us Gentiles and Heathen persons unto his faith. 76.  
¶ A prayer that God himself may lead, rule teach, and direct us in his way, in his precepts and in his gospel, and that he may keep us from the doctrines & traditions of men. 77.  
¶ When we are bruised and humbled in heart, and contrariwise the world rejoiceth and triumpheth. 85  
¶ Too be delivered from bloudsuppers, that busy themselves to pluck us from the way of God, both by force and crafty means, and  labour to abolish gods word. 85.  
¶ That God may keep us that we sin not with our tongue, neither excuse our sins as hypocrites do. 86.  
¶ That we may be led forth of the prison of distress, of sins and of death to the praise and glory of God, that we be no longer pressed upon earth. 87.  
¶ When we find no merits in us no righteousness of our own, but all things desperate. And again remember how God from the beginning of the world hath wrought wonders in his saints, and hath never forsaken such as call upon him, thus may we pray. 87.  
¶ A thanksgiving that all be it we vile, yet by the virtue of GOD we be strong against all strange children, that is to say such as be not chosen to the inheritance of God. 88  
¶ A praising of God for his marvels, mercy, and the eternal reign of his clemency, which providethe for all his creatour●s, and in especial for such as fear him. 89  
¶ A prayer of God, that in only god the everlasting king we ought to trust and not in princes, in power, in wisdom, or in the righteousness of the elements of this world. 91.  
¶ A praising of the lords name. 91  
¶ A praising of God from all creatures first heavenly & then earthly. 92  
¶ A praising of GOD in himself that he is holy and hallowing, strong and strengthing, great, and making great. etc. 93.  
¶ Against the enemy of the troth 93  
¶ A psalm which because it is all together evangelical, and teacheth the contempt of this world we have put at th'end, to the intent in all our tribulation & in the pride of the wicked we may comfort ourselves. 95.    

¶ Certain prayers short and of divers sorts.  

¶ The prayer of Moses at the removing of the tents. 98.  
¶ The prayer of Aaron and Moses for their sister Mari stricken with the leper. 98.  
¶ The prayer of Moses to the Lord that he mought pass into the land of behest.  
¶ Other two short prayers.  
¶ Six short prayers.  
¶ Four short prayers. 100  
¶ An invocation to God for the aid of the faithful for the vengeance of the unfaithful miscreants and for manifestation of himself to be the self-same God that all the prophets hath preedicate & showed before. 101  
¶ An exhortation to die gladly for it is the judgement of the Lord over all flesh. 102    

PSALMS OF DAVID against tyrants and persecutors of God's word.  

¶ That all such as live in satins bondage may come to the knowledge of faith in jesus Christ. 103.  
¶ For ruler's and common peace. 103.  
¶ Against the enemies of the people of God, tyrants, heretics, and raging ●o●ues. 104  
● The testament of Moses. 105  
● The prayer of the Centurion 108.  
● The prayer of the thief on the cross. 108.    
FINIS.   

¶ Imprinted ●n London by Richard Grafton  
Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum.  
These books are to be sold at the West door of P●●●●s in London. By William Tylotson.