The Kings Psalms  

¶ The first Psalm, 〈◊〉 the obtaining remission ●f sins.  
O Lord of Lords, God almighty, great and dreadful, which by thy word haste made heaven, earth, the Sea, and all things contained in them.  
Nothing is able to resist thy power, thy mercy is over all thy works.  
〈◊〉 things be under thy dominion and rule: both man 〈◊〉 beast, and all living creature's.  
Thou art merciful too whom thou wilt: and haste compassion on whom it pleaseth thee.  
Thy counsel shalt stand for ever: and what so ever thou wilt shallbe doen.  
Power, Dominion, and Glory is thine: which art above all things, and in all things; and in us all.  
Thou art father of mercies, and GOD of all grace, peace, and comfort: which will not the death of sinne● nor delitest in the damnation of souls.  
O Lord God, which art rich in mercy, and of thine especial love towards us, even when we were thine enemies by sin, didst send into the world thine only begotten son jesus Christ: that whosoever believeth duly in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life.  
Have mercy upon me, have mercy upon me, according to thy great mercy.  
And according to the multitude of thy merc●●, put away mine 〈…〉  
O God most 〈…〉 me from my 〈◊〉, and make me clean 〈◊〉 mine uncleanness.  
For I acknowledge (O Lord) my heinous sins: and accuse myself of mine unrighteous deeds.  
I confess against myself, the wickedness of my heart, which hath been ever unfaithful, and rebelling against thy precepts.  
I have been an untrue and a froward child to thee, and have provoked thee with my vanities.  
O holy father, I have offended thy divine Majesty: and am not worthy to be called thy son.  
Because I provoked thee to anger, through the multitude of my sins: and have not exercised myself in thy righteous laws.  
I have turned back from thy ways, and done evil before thee.  
I have done wickedly and unjustly behaved myself, leaving thy commandments, and murmuring against thy correction.  
I have turned myself away, and not kept my promise made unto thee: I have walked in an evil way, after mine own thoughts & fantasies, choosing the things that thou wouldst not.  
O Lord God almighty, I have not feared thee, nor showed due reverence unto thee: but I have been disobedient & stubborn unto thee.  
As a common harlot is with out shame, even so am I without shame of my sins: for behold, I speak unto thee, & yet I sin more and more.  
I have left that which is good, and gone back from thee: and I have not put my trust and hope in thee, my maker, but have sought for help, and safeguard otherwise.  
I have ploughed wickedness, and reaped iniquity, & eaten the fruit of lies: Because I have trusted in mine own way.  
I have cast thy laws behind my back, not regarding thy commandments, nor leaving mine own lewd customs.  
I have not given my heart to return to thy paths: for I would not know thee, but have fallen through mine iniquity.  
I never unto this day, turned truly unto thee with all my heart: But as a woman that breaketh her fidelity, and promise unto her husband, even so (O lord God) I have broken my promise unto thee.  
For I have lived abominably, and have had no remorse, nor repentance for my evil deeds, but have run from sin to sin, following the lewd desires of my heart.  
Thou knowest all things (O Lord) how I have provoked thee to displeasure by my lewd inventions: and none of all my sins be hid from thee.  
I hated thy discipline and correction: and regarded not thy words and sayings.  
I have not done penance for my malice: But have increased in much vanity.  
My heart hath been void of truth: & my hands have wrought unrighteousness.  
My tongue hath spoken sinfully: and I have laboured with the imagination of my heart, to find out lies and deceipts, and no truth hath been in my ways.  
I have accustomed my tongue to speak trifles & vanities, fulfilling my fleshly desires and thoughts, my purposes and inventions have been contrary to thy will, whereby I have offended the eyes of thy Majesty.  
Thou haste seen all these things (O Lord) and haste held thy peace, and yet they were evil in thy fight, and displeased thee.  
In thy anger thou hast cast me away, and art divided from me now many days.  
Thou hast given me up to the desires of my heart: To do the things which be not seeming.  
Woe I am, that I have gone from thee: great is my misery, that I have lead my life in sin.  
Woe is me, that I have forsaken thee to do my devices, not after thy mind, to accomplish my thoughts, which have not proceeded of thy spirit, but have heaped up sin upon sin.  
Mine infamy & reproach is daily before mine eyes: & for shame I dare not show my face.  
And now, o lord god, why forgettest thou me: why kepeste thou away so long thy mercy from me?  
Hear now my cause graciously, although thou haste been displeased with me agreate while: For thou art merciful: be not angry always, I beseech thee.  
Cast not away a contrite & penitent person, a wretch and an abject, which humbly calleth upon thy name.  
Turn again a little toward me, O lord God, and forgive me my mischievous deeds.  
Order me not according to my sins, nor punish me as my wickedness deserveth.  
Show not forth thy power against a poor wretch: persecute him not so sore, which is without all strength.  
Turn not thy face alway from my prayers: but according to thy promises, take me again unto thy favour.  
For I am thine, O righteous father, whom thine only dear son hath redeemed with his precious blood.  
And now my soul abhorreth my old conversation: and of thee, which art judge of all men, I ask mercy.  
I do submit myself under thy mighty hand: for after thine, anger thou showest mercy, and in the time of tribulation thou dost forgive sins.  
I acknowledge, that I am a sinner, beseeching thee lord God almighty, of thy goodness to do with me, according to thy great mercy.  
I am confounded and ashamed to lift up mine eyes unto thee, for my sins are ascended up unto thy sight.  
Against thee (O father) against thee I have sinned, and done evil before thee: thou seest that mine iniquity is great.  
Truly I have been an offender against thee, even from my cradle, and sinee I sucked my mother's breasts, I have not ceased to do evil.  
Behold, I was begotten in iniquity: and my mother brought me into this world defiled with sin.  
For the Corn of an evil seed is sown in my heart, and how much wickedness hath sprung thereof unto this day, thou knowest, O lord.  
I can not shake of my sins and offence, but I carry still with me the infamy of my youth.  
Behold lord, I am sold under sin, and in my flesh I find not that which is good.  
For the good that I would, that do I not, but the evil that I hate, that I do.  
All the thoughts and imaginations of my heart, have been set to do evil, ever since I was young.  
O why do I die in my sins lord God: seeing thy will is not that a sinner die, but return from his sin, and live?  
For thou art good and merciful, and according to thy great mercy, savest them that be unworthy.  
For albeit no man is able to bear the punishment, which thou doest threaten against sinners, yet the mercy, which thou hast promised, is great & unsearchable.  
Thou hast showed mercy a thousand times heretofore: to make thy name glorious, as it is even yet still.  
The old fathers in their necessities cried unto thee, & thou didst deliver them: there put their trust in thee: and they were not confounded.  
When they were at their wits end, and wist not what to do: this was their only refuge, to lift up their eyes to thee.  
Thou didst save them for thy name's sake, to show in them thy might and strength.  
Many a time they provoked thee through their iniquities, and stirred thy goodness to displeasure.  
Yet when thou saweste their tribulation, and their lowly submission unto thee,  
Thou didst remember thy promise, and by and by baddest pity and compassion upon them: according to the multitude of thy mercies.  
Have mercy upon me (O lord God omnipotent) have mercy upon me: for I am a miserable, and a wretched creature: make me whole I beseech thee, whom thou hast stricken for my sin and iniquity.  
My soul is troubled greatly: & how long, O lord, wilt thou not look towards me?  
How long wilt thou reject my prayer thus crying out unto thee? Wilt thou hear me at no time? How long wilt thou turn away thy face from me.  
Where be thy old mercies (O Lord) whom thou hast established in thy truth.  
Wilt thou now (O Lord God) cease to show mercy? Or wilt thou withdraw thy goodness for displeasure?  
Hast thou cast me away for ever: That thou wilt never hereafter be pleased with me?  
Thy hand is not weakened, but it may help: and thy ears be not stopped, that they refuse to hear.  
How long shall my mind be troubled with painful and heavy thoughts? How long shall sorrow forment my heart?  
How long shall mine enemy have the overhand of me? look towards me, lord God, and hear my prayer.  
Give light to mine eyes, for I have slept to long in death: and my sins have prevailed against me.  
Turn again, O Lord, turn again, and deliver my soul: & save me for thy great mercy's sake.  
Lo, now is the accepted time: now be the days of health and grace.  
In death who shall remember thee? In hell who shall laud or praise thee?  
He that liveth, he that liveth, shall praise thee: & shall make thy mercy known.  
Lord rebuke me not in thine anger: nor punish me in thy great displeasure.  
Cast not thy darts at me: nor lay not thy heavy hand upon me.  
For I have borne thine anger a long while, and of the Cup of thy high displeasure, I have drunk, very deep.  
There is no health in my flesh, for fear of thy displeasure: I have no peace nor rest, when I behold my sins.  
My iniquities be gone over my head: and like an heavy burden they daily press me down.  
The wounds in my soul do fester, and stink, even through mine own folly.  
I am a wretch, cast away from thy favour and presence, and go mourning all the day long.  
My soul is full of filthiness, and no part of me is whole and sound.  
Wherefore my enemies do persecute me the more, the greatness of my pain maketh me to roar and cry.  
My heart fainteth and trembleth within me, and my strength is gone away.  
O Lord, thou knowest my desire, and thou seest my necessity.  
Forgive me all my sins (O Lord GOD almighty) for thine own sake, and put out of thy sight my heinous offences, for according to thy goodness, thou haste promised forgiveness of sins to them that do penance.  
Have mercy on me lord, for the glory and honour of thy name, and be no longer displeased with me, and then thou shalt surely be known to be just, and true in thy words, and shalt overcome when thou art judged.  
For by this, thy great grace shallbe known: that thou takest mercy on them, which have not whereof they may glory in thy sight.  
And all the dwellers on the earth shall learn, and know thy goodness, when thou shalt confer, and give thy benefits to us for thy great names sake, and not after our evil ways, and wicked deeds.  
verily lord God, except thou show unto us thy manifold mercies, the world shall not have life, nor they that dwell therein.  
And if thou help us not with thy goodness, how may they, which have offended, be raised up from their sins?  
Have mercy on me o good father, have mercy on me, and for thy glorious name, be no longer angry with me.  
Take me sinner unto thy mercy, for the name of thy holy son jesus, whom thou hast sent, to be the obtainer of mercy for our sins through faith in his blood.  
Behold holy father, behold thy child, whom thou hast chosen: behold thy well-beloved son, in whom thy soul delighteth: upon whom thou hast put thy holy spirit, and sent him to preach the Gospel to the poor, to heal them, which for their sins be sorrowful, and contrite: to comfort them that mourn, to preach pardon to the prisoners, and sight to the blind.  
Behold thy little one, which was borne for us, behold thy son which is given to us, whom thou haste not spared, but given to death for us all, to be a sweet offering and sacrifice to thee.  
verily be took upon him in his body, our infirmities, and he bore our pains.  
He was made weak for our sins: and he was wounded for our offences.  
The correcttion for our peace was laid upon him, & by the strokes that he suffered, our wounds were healed.  
All we went a stray like sheep, every one followed his own way, and thou (O lord) puttest on him our iniquity, striking him for the offences of thy people.  
He gave his body to be beaten, and his cheeks to be stricken, he turned not a way his face from them that scorned him, and spit upon him.  
Through his love & mercy, he hath redeemed them that were lost, and by his blood shed on the cross, he hath pacified all things, in heaven and in earth.  
He gave himself to death, and made his prayers for them which were offenders.  
Look (O merciful father) and consider, who it is that thus did suffer: and remember (I besche thee) for whom he hath suffered.  
For this is that innocent whom thou gavest to death for us, even then when we were sinners: and shall we not, being now justified by his blood, much rather be saved from wrath through him?  
If we, when we were yet enemies, were reconciled to thee, by the death of thy son shall we not being reconciled, much rather be saved by his life?  
Behold that pure and immaculate lamb, which taketh a way the sins of the world, by whose precious blood, we are redeemed from our iniquities.  
Look upon that most meek innocent, which like a Lamb that was led to his death: and being most cruelly entreated, once opened not his mouth.  
Behold thine only son, whom although thou begattest of thy almighty power, substance, and nature: yet thou wouldst he should be partaker of my infirmity.  
Which being God in nature, thought it no ravin to be equal with God, but made himself low, taking upon him the shape of a servant, and coming in the similitude of sinful flesh, condemned sin in the flesh, submitting himself unto thee, O father, even to the death of the cross, and there put on the hand writing, that was against us, contained in the law written, and taking it out of the way, fastened it to his cross, on the which he spoilt potestates and powers, and made a show of them openly, and triumphed over them in his own person.  
Turn the eyes of thy majesty (O lord God) and look upon the work of thy ineffable goodness.  
Beh●ld thine own sweet son, how all his body was drawn, and stretched forth on the cross.  
Look upon all the parts of his body, from the crown of the head unto the sole of the foot, and no pain shall be found like unto his pain.  
Behold (O loving father) the blessed head of thy dear son, crowned with sharp Thorns, and the blood running down upon his godly visage.  
Behold his tender body, how it is scourged: his naked breast is stricken and beaten: his bloody side is thrusted through: his heart panteth: his sinews be stretched forth: his Godly eyes dazzle, and lose their sight: his princely face is wan and pale: his pleasant tongue is inflamed for pain: his inward parts wax dry and stark: his arms both blue and wan by strife, his bones be plucked one from an other: his beautiful legs be feeble, and weak: & the streams of blood issuing out of his body, run down apace upon his feet.  
Look (O my maker) upon the humanity and gentleness of thy dear son: and pity the infirmity of thy weak handy work.  
Behold (O glorious Father) the body of thy dear son, all too rent and torn: and remember I beseech thee, of how small substance I am.  
Look upon the pain of him that is both God and man: & release the misery of man, whom thou hast made.  
Behold the grievous suffering of the redeemer, and forgive the sin of him that is redeemed.  
Keep me from all evil ways: and teach me by thy holy spirit, to choose the way of truth.  
I beseech thee (o thou king of holiness) by him that is most holy, by this my redeemer Christ, that thou bring me again into the right way that I may be united, and made one with him in spirit which abhorred not to be united with me in flesh.  
Make me to go perfectly in thy paths, and to hate all wicked ways.  
Wash my heart from malice, and cleanse me from my secret sins.  
Cleanse me (O holy father) with the blood of the new Testament of thy well-beloved son, which hath loved us, and washed us with his blood from our sins, and hath redeemed us from all iniquity.  
Purify my heart by the sanctification of thy spirit, & the sprinkling of the blood of thy son, from all filthiness of sin, and evil conscience.  
O God almighty, be merciful unto me sinner: for thy glorious name sake, and remember my sins no longer.  
For thou art God, gracious and merciful, and patiently doest suffer us: and wouldst that no man should perish, but that all men should return to penance.  
Make me, O Lord God, to return from my evil ways and wicked thougtes.  
Remember not the sins and abominations of my youth: according to thy mercy, be mindful of me for thy goodness sake O lord.  
Look not upon me with a grievous countenance: for there is no man that dare speak for me.  
Enter not into judgement with thy servant, for if thou accuse me, I shall never be quit.  
For if thou, o lord, mark my sins & iniquity: who shall not fall before thee?  
This is certain and sure that then in thy sight no man living shallbe justified, seeing thou hast found iniquity even in thy angels.  
How much rather in men, which is abomination and filthiness, and dwelleth in the earthly house of this body, and drinketh iniquity as it were water?  
Who is clean from filthiness when all be corrupted? Truly not one: No though he have lived but one day on the earth: and though his Months may be easily numbered.  
Of a truth there is no mortal man, which hath not done wickedly: nor there is any righteous on earth, which doth good and sinneth not.  
Yet because mercy is in thy hand (O lord) although thou be dreadful my hope is in thee, in whom my soul trusteth.  
My soul looketh for thee, because mercy and plentiful redemption is with thee.  
For this I know assuredly, that thou wilt not cast me away for ever: But although thou cast me away for my sins a while, yet thou wilt have mercy upon me again, according to the multitude of thy mercies.  
For thou (O lord) are ●ull of pity and mercy: and wilt not turn thy face away from us, if we will return to thee.  
Thou art our God, full of sweetness, verity, and patience, and disposest all things by mercy.  
The fountains of thy goodness be ever full & flow over: thy grace never decayeth.  
All thy ways be mercie● truth, to them that seek outthy covenant and testimonies.  
How gentle and loving the father is to his children, so gentle and loving art thou (O lord) to them that fear thee, and for the abundance of thy mercy, thou do it pardon our infirmities.  
Thou knowest thine own handy work: thou remem●e●est what we are: thou seest that we are flesh, and of no strength.  
Thou hast not forgotten, that this world is full of unrighteousness and wickedness: and that it is wholly set and bend on evil.  
Yea nevertheless thou art merciful, and full of grace, and like a merciful lord, forbearest to punish sinners, when they repent themself and return from their sins.  
Have mercy upon me (O Lord God my Saviour for the glory of thy name: And deliver me, & forgive me my sins for thy name's sake.  
O righteous father, look not straightly upon the multitude of my sins: but look on the face of jesus thy holy son, which being without sin, bore our sins in his body on the free of the cross.  
Turn away thy face from my sins: and put out all my iniquities.  
Make a clean heart in me (O God) and renew me with a right spirit.  
Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy spirit from me.  
Give me again the comfort of thy help: and establish me with thy mighty spirit.  
Mollify my heart, o lord God, that I may return to thy paths: for I have wandered over long in the way of error.  
Turn me to thee, and I shallbe turned: for thou art my maker: & I am the clay and work of thy hands.  
Turn not thy face away from me, nor go not from thy servant in thine anger.  
Be my helper, and forsake me not, despise me not, O lord, which art my GOD and my health. Amen.   

The second Psalm for remission of sins.  
O Most mighty God of Angels and of men: whose judgements be unsearchable, & whose wisdom is profound and deep  
Hear the prayers of thy servant: and cast not away the humble suits of thy poor creature and handy work.  
For as long as I shall live, I will speak unto thee: and I will not hold my peace, so long as the breath is in my body.  
I do turn my soul unto thee, and I set mine eyes directly upon thee.  
Let thine anger be turned away from me I beseech thee, and grant, that I may find grace and favour in thy sight.  
According to thy greatness of the merry, forgive me all my sins.  
Pluck me away from mine heinous offences: and heal my soul, which hath offended thee, make me free from the guilt of my transgression: for I acknowledge my iniquity, and am sorry for my sins.  
I have forsaken thy way, and I, knowing thy commandments, have done all things contrary to them.  
I have broken the covenant that I made with thee: and have despised to keep thy law.  
verily I have sinned against thee O lord God, and the blemish of my sin bideth still with me, even unto this day.  
I have forsaken, thee, O God my maker, and gone away from thee my saviour, and have rebelled against thee, like the Ore that winceth, and striveth when he 〈◊〉 ●o yoked.  
I have hardened my heart against thee: and I have lifted up my neck proudly after 〈◊〉.  
● have trusted in ●yes, and through deceit would not knowledge thee: but I have followed the l●udnesse of my heart.  
My 〈◊〉 and arrogancy have beguiled me: and the fooli●● boldness of my heart, hath brought me into desolate ways.  
Mine own counsels and advises have wrought me these things: Such is the malice and rebellion that possesseth the hearts of men.  
My soul is ●ut from quietness and rest▪ and I cannot think of any good thing.  
The yoke of my sins is waxed very heavy: it is lifted up, and fastened about my neck.  
Thou hast spoken to me, but I would not hear, thou haste called me, but I would not answer, I believed not thy words, nor would abide thy counsel.  
I regarded not thy holy word: and I gave not my mind to thy sayings.  
Thou hast stricken me, but I would not know the cause thereof: thou haste corrected me, but I would not take thy discipline.  
I did not consider in my heart, that thou wouldst not forget my sin and malice.  
With my mouth and my lips I glorified thee, but my heart was far from thee  
I hide my sin as Adam did: to the intent to have my iniquity unknown.  
I asked counsel of thy mouth: and I would not follow thy law.  
I have sinned before thine eyes▪ and therefore my soul is made unstable.  
I forseke thee, which art the fountain of continual springing waters: to the intent to big to myself muddy pits, which have no water.  
In all these things, I am not returned to thee: nor I have not prayed unto thee, that I might leave my wicked ways.  
See lord, and behold, how vile I am made: all the beauty of my soul is perished and gone: In so much that now I dare not in any wise behold and look upon thee.  
And there was no cause, why I should forsake thee, & vainly follow vain things.  
Lord have mercy upon me, and hear my prayers: for thou art my God, and there is no saviour besides thee.  
Turn away from me thy heavy displeasure: and destroy me not for my sins of my youth.  
I humbly beseech thee, O Lord, forgive me, forgive me for thy exceeding mercy.  
O Lord God of hosts, if thou be determined to save, who can let or resist? If thou stretch out thy hand, who shall turn thee away?  
Thou mayest do to me as the potter doth to his pot: for (behold) I am in thy hand as the clay is in his.  
amend me (O lord) but in mercy, not in thine anger least thou utterly consume me: make me to understand and know how hurtful and deadly a thing it is to forsake thee, my Lord GOD, and to cast away from me, the fear of thee.  
There is no man that can heal me, nor cure my plague: no man can deliver me, ●ut thou, O lord, which woundest & makest whole which strikest, and healest again.  
My destruction cometh of myself: my help and salvation standeth only in thee.  
For none is like unto thee thou art mighty: and great is the name of thy strength.  
Turn me to thee, o lord, and I shall be turned: take away from me this sinful heart, that thy law may bring for the fruit in me.  
Remember me Lord, for thy goodness sake: and for the great love that thou bearest towards me.  
O lord God, behold, thou hast made both heaven and earth by thy great might: and nothing is hard to thee.  
Thou art that puissant and mighty, whose name is the lord of hosts: great and marvelous in thy counsel.  
As soon as thou hast spoken the word, all things be done: assoon as thou hast commanded, things be: and thy word returneth not to the void, and without effect.  
Thou, o lord God, showest mercy unto all: for thou canst do all: and thou makeste as though thou sawest not the sins of men, because they should do penance, and amend their lives.  
For thou lovest all things that be: and hatest nothing that thou haste made: for nothing thou madest, or hast ordained of any hatred.  
Thou sparest and tenderest all men: for all things be thine, and thou lovest the souls of men.  
Thou dost minister mercy, equity, and justice in the earth: and therefore in these virtues thou greatly delightest  
Truly (O lord) thou art righteous and gracious, notwithstanding I have offended thee, transgressing thy covenant, and trespassing against thee.  
O lord, thou hast seen all my abominations: look on my cause, and consider, how vile and wretched I am: see and behold my great confusion.  
In the time of reconciliation hear me, and in the day of salvation have mercy on me.  
Be merciful unto me, and have mercy on me, which have none other help but thee: whose will nothing can resist: when so ever thou dost purpose to save.  
Hear me, which am a wretch, making supplication unto thee, make me to trust in thy name: and deliver me by thy power.  
Have regard to me from heaven, O Lord, and look down from thy holy habitation: and from the throne of thy glory.  
Destroy me not because of my iniquity: but remember the sorrow and pain that I suffer.  
Be not still angry with me (o lord) forget all my sins and remember them no longer.  
Let my prayer ascend up unto thee: say unto my soul behold I am come to thee, thy health & thy salvation.   

The third Psalm for remission of sins.  
O God eternal, just, and holy: which keepest covenant and mercy, with them that love thee, and keep thy commandments.  
Look at me, & have mercy upon me: for I have trespassed against thee: and done evil in thy sight.  
Show forth the upon me the tender affections of thy mercy, that thy servant may have an heart to pray unto thee.  
I humbly make my prayer before thy face, not trusting in mine own righteousness, but in thy great mercies.  
For I am unclean & filthy: and all my righteousness is like a foul bloody clo●te.  
Unto thee, O lord, be justice, mercy, and pity: but unto me be confusion and shame, for my iniquities.  
Certainly even from my beginning, I have used myself proudly against thee, doing wickedly, & ceasing not.  
O Lord, thou haste redeemed me, and yet I have not ceased to offend thee, & my heart hath not been strait in thy sight.  
Thou hast taught and instructed me, and established my power, and I have been evil affected towards thee, being like unto a deceitful bow.  
My pride and presumption accuse me to my face, I am overthrown in mine own wickedness: I do seek thee (O lord) I beseech thee, that I may find thee, thou art separated from me: for I have greedily followed filthiness.  
Yet will I accuse mine own sinful ways before thee, o lord, until thou have mercy upon me, and receive me again into thy favour.  
God forbid, that ever I should depart from thee again, and not diligently seek for thy promises.  
I will never hold my peace nor keep silence: until thou have established that covenant with me, which thou hast made, and ordained in times passed.  
That is to say, like as the justice of a just man shall not deliver or save him, what time soever he shall offend: so the wickedness of a wicked man shall not hurt him, what time so ever he shall return from his wickedness.  
In hope of this (O Lord God) I will tarry thy pleasure: for thou art good to them that trust in thee, and to the soul that seeketh thee.  
Thou keepest thy truth for evermore: and the word which issueth forth of thy mouth, shall not be void, and of none effect.  
Destroy me not, good lord, for my sins: Nor reserve not eternal punishment for me.  
Open thine eyes, and behold the greatness of my pain, & my aff●iction: for my iniquity is great in thy sight and my sins have brought me into this trouble.  
Destroy me not utterly. nor leave me in my sins: for thou art God of mercy, and very gracious.  
Execute not the punishment upon me, which thou hadst purposed: do to me according to thy name; although my defaults and sins be many.  
O lord, thou art my God: and thy name hath been put vpō●e: leave me not in the deepness of my troubles.  
Thou haste chastised, and reform many, and haste strengthened the weary hands, thy words have set up him that staggered: and thou haste made strait the crooked knees.  
Wherefore I will seek thee (O Lord God) which haste wrought great things unsearchable and innumerable.  
Thou haste taken up the poor out of the dust, & hast exalted them, which were objects,  
For thou dost deliver the poor in his misery, out of the strait and bottomless pit of tribulation: and out of the wide mouth of anguish and affliction, into rest and quietness.  
Thou art gracious & merciful, for that thou sheweste mercy to them, which he not yet come into the world: and thou art very merciful to them which diligently observe, and keep thy laws: & thou dost patiently suffer sinners: giving them time and place, whereby they may be changed from their malice.  
Hear me poor wretch, making supplication unto thee, for in thee, & thy name, I have put my trust and affiance.  
Take me thy servant unto thee, and make me good, and let me not be disapoineted of that I look for.  
Come again (o lord God) and save my soul: destroy me not, whom thou hast redeemed by thy great might, and power.  
Look not upon the hardness of my heart, nor upon my sins: but like as thou hast many times showed mercy, so now be merciful, and forgive me.  
Hear me (O lord) and be pacified: regard my prayer, and do according to thy great name.  
O Lord, I look to have help and salvation from thee: and this is my daily meditation, and exercise.  
For thy mercies be great: & thy goodness is inestimable.  
Hear me now favourably, and withhold thy mercies no longer from me.  
In the way of thy judgements, I will look after thee: my soul desireth too magnify thy name, and to have thee in memory.  
Incline my heart to do thy commandments: and direct my ways evermore in thy sight.  
Let me never hereafter go away from thy ways: nor leave me not now in the deepness of my troubles.  
Turn not thine eyes away from me: but teach me (O lord) to do those things, which are pleasant in thy sight.  
Make a perpetual league and covenant with me, that thou wilt put thy fear into my heart: that I never serve from thee in all my life.  
Withdraw not thy goodness from me for ever, but keep thy promise & fidelity.  
Be good unto me with benevoleuce & favour: for thou art merciful, and thy displeasure continueth not for ever.  
Remember me with favour and kindness: and visit me with thy salvation.  
I know (O Lord God) that thou art gracious and merciful, patient, & of great mercifulness.  
Thou art good and merciful, thou kéepest covenant and mercy with thy servants, which walk before thee in their whole heart.  
There is none other God but thou, which regardest and carest for all.  
For thou hast been ever very merciful to me: delivering my soul from the deep hell.  
Let thy goodness (o lord) be ever with me, for all my wealth resteth only in thee.  
In the time of tribulation I call upon thee (O lord) for thou art nigh unto them which call upon thy holy name.  
Succour me (O God) and look merrily upon me: show me the light of thy countenance: in thee my soul trusteth, and my heart rejoiceth  
Let my prayer come unto thy throne: bow down thine ear unto my cry.  
Hear me now being penitent, O lord, whom thou hast hitherto patiently suffered: to the intent I should repent, and amend my life.  
O God, I have opened unto thee my life: Save me for thy name's sake: For my trust is in thee.  
What care I for worldly things: this one thing only I need and desire, that I may find grace and favour in thy sight.  
Wherefore I beseech thee O lord God, take away from me this pain and sorrow: or at least wise mitigate & assuage it, either by comfort, or by counsel, or by what means so ever it shall be seen good to thee.   

¶ The fourth Psalm is a complaint of a penitent sinner, which is sore troubled & overcome with sin.  
O Lord GOD merciful and patient: & of much mercifulness and truth.  
Which for thy abundant charity, and according to thy great mercy, hast taken us out from the power of darkness: and haste saved us by the fountain of regeneration and new birth, and the renewing of the holy ghost: whom thou hast shed upon us abundantly by jesus Christ our saviour.  
If I have found grace and favour in thy sight: Suffer me to speak a word unto thee: and be not displeased with me.  
Why dost thou ever forget me: and leavest me in the mids of my troubles, and evils?  
Where is become thy zeal and thy strength? Where is the multitude of thy tender affections: & of thy mercies?  
O lord, may not he which is fallen, rise up again? or may not he, which hath gone away from thee, return to thee again?  
Shall my sorrow ever endure? Shall my wound be uncurable and never healed.  
How cometh it to pass, that I turn still away from thee? my sin daily increaseth, and of myself I cannot return.  
In as much as it is not given to man to direct his own ways: neither to make perfect his own procedings.  
For in thy hand is the life of every living thing: and the spirit also of every man.  
Thou showest thy mercy to whom thou wilt: and thou art gracious to them, whom thou favourest.  
Thou dost kill, and thou dost quicken: Thou leadest down to hell gate, and bringest up again.  
Thy eyes behold the ways of every man: and thou searchest the hearts of men.  
There is no place so secret or dark, wherein sinners may hide themselves from thee.  
Nor any man may so lurk and hide himself in caves, but thou shalt see him, which dost fulfil both heaven and earth in every part.  
Why hast thou cast me away from thy presence? and takest me for thy enemy?  
Why hast thou laid upon my head the heavy weight of my sins seeing no man is able to bear thy displeasure  
What meaneth it, that thou sheweste thy power against a wretch? Why destroyest thou me for the sins of my youth?  
If I have sinned, what shall I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thee: & if my sins be increased, what shall I do?  
If I do justly, what shall I give to thee? or what shall thou receive at my hand?  
My wickedness shall hurt myself: and my righteousness shall profit me.  
The life of man is a temptation upon the year ●●and if I have sin as all men have what mai● I 〈◊〉  
Shall any man be found clean, and without 〈◊〉 fore thee? or shall 〈…〉 without default in his dides  
How may ● mor● all man 〈◊〉 pu●e from spirit 〈◊〉 sight? 〈◊〉 how may he, which is borne of a woman, ●ee righteous.  
Remember (O lord) I beseech thee, that thou haste made me of the earth: and that thou shalt br●ng me again into the dust of death.  
My days pass and vanish away like smoke: they waist daily, there is no tarriing.  
My life flieth away as the wind: and considereth not that which is good.  
I 〈◊〉 but lately ●orne into thi● world, and shortly I shallbe taken away hence by death, I never continue still in one state.  
The days of my life be few, and short: thou haste appointed an end, which I shall not pass.  
Naked and bare I came out of my mother's womb: and naked and bare I shall return again: Truly all men living are vanity.  
Have pity, o lord, on them that are in misery: & despise not the works of thy hands  
Though we sinn●: yet are we under thee: for we know thy power and strength: and if we sin not, then are we sure that thou regardest us.  
Cease thy indignation (O lord) and turn it from me: and cast all my sins behind thy back.  
Take away thy plagues from me: for thy punishment hath made me both feeble, and faint.  
For when thou chastisest a man for his sins, thou causest him by and by to consume and pine away.  
Whatsoever is delectable in him, perisheth like unto the cloth that is eaten with Moths.  
Would God I had one to defend me a while, until thy anger were turned away: or that thou wouldst set me a time, in the which thou wouldst remember me.  
I am clean cast away from thy presence: shall I never hereafter see thy face against▪  
Behold, I have opened the griefs of my soul: the days or my sorrows hau● taken me  
The fl●uddes of tribulation compass me round about: and the ●reaures of thy fury run over me.  
And I cry▪ unto thee (O lord God) but thou hearest me not: I ask mercy: but thou reie●test my prayers.  
Why thrustest thou down 〈◊〉 wretch from thy presence? or why forsakest thou me so long time?  
Why takest thou not away my iniquity? And why puttest thou not away the wickedness of my heart?  
Arise, and tarry no longer (O Lord) arise, and ●eie●●e me not for ever.  
Have me in remembrance I beseech thee: for I thoroughly tremble & shake for fear.  
Yet I will not hold my tongue▪ but cry still unto thee with a mourning & an heavy heart.  
Turn away the stroke of thy vengeance from me: bring my mind out of troubles into rest.  
I am here no longer continewer, but a pilgrim and a stranger, as all other mortal men be.  
And what ●s man, that thou shoulders be● angry with him? Or what is mankind, that thou shouldest be so heavy Lord unto us?  
What, wit thou bring follow upon sorrow? I pant for pain, and find no rest.  
My sorrow grieveth me when I should eat & sudden fighes over whelm my heart  
I am as if my bones were all to broken, when I hear mine enemies rail upon me and say to me day by day, where is thy God●  
Why turnest thou thy face away from these things (O Lord?) Why hast thou no regard of my trouble?  
I earnestly ●ake my prayers daily 〈◊〉 thy sight and the heaviness of my heart▪ I do show unto thee.  
My spirit is careful, and troubled within me: and desperation hath entered into my heart.  
Is it thy pleasure, O lord GOD, to cast away thine own handy work?  
Deliver my soul from corruption, and my life from everlasting darkness.  
What availeth it me, that ever I was borne, if thou cast me strait into damnation? seeing that she dead shall not praise thee: nor any of them which go down to hell.  
I have sinned, what shall I do to thee? why hast thou put me to be contrary to thee? I am weary of mine own self.  
Why searchest thou out my sins so narrowly: when there is no man that can take out of thy hand?  
If ● would say that I were righteous and without sin: then thou mightest worthily condemn me to the fire, prepared for the Devil and his angels.  
But I confess, that I am a sinner, and I do humble my heart in thy sight.  
Surely if any man would stand with thee in judgement, he shall not be able to answer one word to a thousand things; wherewith thou mightest charge him.  
This maketh me to fear all my deeds: knowing that thou spareste not him that offendeth.  
If I look upon thy power, O how mighty and strong thou art, if I shall call for judgement, who shall defend my matter, or speak for me?  
To thee, O lord, I call and cry: to thee my God, I make mine humble suit.  
Turn away thine anger from me: That I may know that thou art more merciful unto me, than my sins deserve.  
What is my strength, that I may endure? Or what is the end of my trouble, that my soul may patiently abide it?  
My strength is not a stony strength: and my flesh is not made of brass.  
There is no help in myself and my strength fleeth away from me.  
Although thou hide these things in thine heart: yet I know, that thou wilt remember me at length.  
For thou art true and just O lord God, thou dost not condemn unjustly: which rewardest man, according to his deserte●.  
All this is come unto me, because I have forgotten thee, and not used myself truly in thy testament.  
My heart hath turned backward: and I hau● followed the desires of my flesh.  
And thou hast surely known thi● thing: which knowest the secrets of the heart  
Lay not against me (O lord) the sins of my youth: nor have in remembrance ●yne old injuries done against thee.  
Daily sorrow overcometh me: and sadness possesseth my heart.  
I look after peace, but I can not have it: I look for a time of health, but my grief continueth still.  
When the time of thine anger is past, let mercy come yet am I unhappy more and more.  
Woe and alas that ever I sinned: My heart therefore mourneth & is sad, all mirth and joy be banished from me.  
How am I wasted? How miserably am I confounded? because I have forsaken, and cast away thy law.  
Death hath ascended up by the windows: piercing the inward parts of my heart.  
When I daily, one while in use secretly with myself, an other while with loud voice cry out and complain: the mean tym● 〈◊〉 draweth near to the pit.  
Who shall give me place to rest in from all my griefs and troubles? And I will forsake all men, and get me away from them.  
Who shall give me water to my head, and a fountain of tears to mine eyes? that I may bewail my sins both night and day.  
And I will look for him, which may save me: and deliver me from the wrath to come.  
I have no trust neither in life nor death: but I fear thy judgement, o lord, & the pains prepared for wicked sinners.  
The fear of my sin maketh me careful: & the burden of my conscience oppresseth me sore.  
O God, which tenderly lovest mankind, & art most rightful judge: spare me now I beseech thee, and show me some favour while time is.  
Forgive that which I fear put away that which I dread: before I depart hence, and shall not return again.  
My sins do vex & trouble me sore: they be so great that none can be greater.  
Alas my fall, alas my misery, alas the grief of my plague and stroke: certainly my sin is the cause of all this, and so I will take and suffer it.   

¶ The .v. Psalm for the obtaining of godly wisdom.  
O Lord God of mercy, which by thy word hast made all things: and by thy wisdom haste created man.  
O God eternal, to whom all things be known; be they never so secret: which knowest all things before they be doen.  
Open my lips, and my mouth, that I make speak and show forth the glory, and praise of thy name.  
Give me a new heart, and a right spirit: & take from me all wicked & sinful desires.  
O lord I am foolish, ignorant and blind, when I am destitute of thy knowledge.  
I am ignorant and without intelligence, my dullness is so great, that my eyes can no see, nor my heart perceive.  
Yea, I am a very babe and a child, and know full little mine own life & conversation.  
My lips be defiled, and unclean, my time is short, and I am not able to understand thy law.  
Give thy servant I beseech thee, an heart apt to take learning: that I may know what thing is acceptable in thy sight at all times.  
Send down from heaven the spirit of thy wisdom, and replenish my heart with knowledge thereof.  
The wisdom giveth true knoweldge: and out of thy mouth proceedeth both counsel, and intelligence.  
Thy wisdom openeth the mouth of the dumb: and maketh the tongue of infant's eloquent.  
If any seem to be perfect among men: yet if thy wisdom forsake him: he shallbe reckoned nothing worth.  
Thy wisdom is to men a treasure that faileth not: which who so use it, they are joined to god in love & amity  
How well is it with that man, which is witty in this behalf, and hath his soul endued with thy wisdom?  
What man in all the world knoweth thy counsel? Or who can compass in his mind, what thy will is?  
Who can comprehend thy purpose and mind? Except thou give him wisdom, and instruct him with thy holy spirit.  
For men's reasons do fail in many things: and their forecasts and inventions be uncertain & unsure.  
For the mortal and corruptible body much grieveth the soul, and the earthly house of the body holdeth down the mind, musing upon many things.  
Counsel and good success cometh from above: where also wisdom is and virtue  
With thee (O lord) is richesse, glory, and righteousness, which be treasures incorruptible.  
He that hath found out thee hath found life: and he that loveth not thee, loveth death  
O Lord GOD, touch my mouth, that my iniquity may be driven away: dwell thou in my heart, that my sins may be purged.  
Wisdom doth not enter into a malicious soul: nor will abide in a body, which is suiecte to sin.  
Teach me (O lord God) lest my ignorance increase, and my sins wax more and more.  
Let thy spirit teach me the things that be pleasant unto thee, that I may be led into the straight way out of errors, wherein I have wandered over long.  
Let thy wisdom be established in my spirit: & writ thy law in my heart.  
Thy wisdom is to me more precious than all riches and I desire more to have it than all other things, be they never so fair and goodly.  
O lord thou knowest how sore I am inflamed with the love of thy wisdom, which is my only study, and meditation.  
O how pleasant & sweet thy words be to my heart? truly much more than honey is to my mouth.  
Thy word is a bright candle to my feet, and a light to my ways.  
Thy wisdom pleaseth me more than thousands of gold or of silver can do.  
I have more pleasure and delectation in the way of thy wisdom: then in great abundance of treasure.  
Would GOD my ways may be ordered, that I may learn thy wisdom and thy words.  
Thy word giveth heat and inflameth: wherefore I greatly desire it.  
O happy is he (lord) whom thou instructest: and makest learned in thy law.  
His soul hath alway studied wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgement.  
The law of God shall be written in his heart: and he shall not be overthrown as he goeth.  
O Lord, which art my God, and my saviour, hear my prayer, and my tongue shall ever speak, and set out thy mercies.  
Give me wisdom which is assistant to the throne: that I mai● discern between good and evil, & may know thy holy mysteries.  
Open mine eyes, that I may perceive, and behold the wonderful things, which be in thy law.  
Remember thy word now I call upon thee: For I have put my hope in it, make me to know the way of thy wisdom: and hide not thy knowledge from me.  
Order me according too thy mercy, and disappoincte me not of that I look for.  
Teach me right wisdom and intelligence: for thy wisdom is all that I desire.  
Put thy word in my mouth: and fasten thy wisdom in my heart.  
Let thy wisdom rule & guide my thoughts: That they may alway please thee.  
Thy words be wondered and marvelous: wherefore my soul delighteth in them.  
Thy wisdom is perfect: and thy knowledge is clear, and giveth light to the eyes.  
It is more amiable than gold and precious stones, it is far sweeter than the honey comb.  
Thy wisdom is pure, and undefiled, and maketh souls strong: thy words be certain & true, and give understanding unto the simple.  
When shall he that erreth in his spirit have knowledge? and when shall he that is ignorant have learning?  
When wilt thou send down thy holy spirit from above? when shall the blind heart be lightened with knowledge? when shall the tongue that stammereth be made eloquent?  
I am like a babe without wisdom and discretion: let thy strong hand (O Lord) be my help.  
I know that thou canst do all things and nothing is hard to thee.  
Thou art great (O lord) and canst not be known, and thy wisdom is infinite.  
I have declared my cause before thee: do with thy servant, according to thy great mercy.  
Look toward me and have mercy upon me: that I may bring to pass that, which I believe and think, may be done by thee.  
Make the way of thy wisdom known unto me: and replenish my heart with the knowledge thereof.  
Hear my voice (O lord) according to thy mercy: entreat me according to judgement.  
Give glory unto thy name (O Lord for thou only art good and wise: and there is none other saviour beside thee  
Hear me (O Lord) for thy name sake: and withhold not thy mercy from me.  
My lips shall speak and set forth thy laud and praise when thou hast taught me thy wisdom.  
Then I will declare thy marvels: That other also may be converted unto thee  
And may bless thy name for ever, world without end. Amen.   

The sixth Psalm. A Christian man prayeth, that he may be heard of God.  
O Lord hear my prayers: and let my cry come to thee.  
Turn not away thy face from me, in the day of my tribulation.  
What day so ever I shall call upon thee: hear me (O Lord God.)  
For thou art great and workest wonders: thou only art God.  
Also thy works be great: thy thoughts be very profound and deep.  
Bow down thine ear unto me: and hear me, for I am poor, and without help.  
Have mercy upon me (O lord) for when trouble cometh I fly unto thee for secure.  
Make glad the soul of thy servant: for I have lifted up my heart unto thee.  
O lord, thou art good and merciful: & of much mercy to all them that call upon thee.  
Hear my request and petition, and graciously accept my prayers.  
O Lord GOD, in thee I trust: let me not be confounded, I beseech thee: Deliver me in thy righteousness.  
hearken unto the voice of my cry (O my king and my God) for I make my humble suit unto thee.  
Hear my voice, with which I call upon thee: have mercy upon me, and save me  
My prayers be ever unto thee (O lord God) if that the time of thy gracious pleasure shall come, when that according to the multitude of thy mercy, thou wilt hear me in the truth of thy health.  
Have regard unto me (O lord) for thy mercy is sweet according to the multitude of thy mercies, look upon me.  
Go not far away from me, O my GOD) but make haste to help me.  
Let my words be pleasant unto thee: and make that the thoughts, and meditation of my heart may be acceptable afore thee.  
Turn not away thy face from thy servant, for trouble riseth up against me on every side: wherefore now secure me.  
My heart desireth thee, my soul seeketh for thee: I tarry and look when I may behold thy face.  
Turn not away thy face from me, cast not away thy servant in a displeasure.  
Thou hast always helped me before this time: forsake me not now in my most need, o my lord and my God.  
To thee I cry daily, go not away from me: and turn not the deaf ear unto me.  
cause my prayer to enter into thy presence: and let my cry come unto thee.  
Hear me (O Lord) for I lift up my mind unto thy holy temple.  
Help now in time of trouble, for vain is the help of man  
I look after thy help, O Lord and to thy iudgemetes my will is conformable.  
Look unto me, and take pity upon me: for I am poor and left alone.  
O Lord God of hosts, if thou wilt, thou mayest help me: nothing can overcome thy strength.  
My God, my God, leave me not in these grievous tribulations for thy great names sake.  
O God, make haste to deliver me, O lord make speed to help me.  
Be contented to deliver me: For in thee I trust, O Lord God.  
Behold, I have no help in myself: There is no man that regardeth my necessity  
I am poor, and in misery and great calamity: and my strength is gone from me.  
Arise up, O Lord, and declare thy glory unto thy servant.  
Let salvation and health come to me from thee: that all my enemies may be ashamed.  
Thine arm is mighty and strong: and when thou wilt all things be obedient unto thee.  
Heaven is thine, yea, and the earth is thine: thou madest the world, and all that is therein.  
Let thy mercy comfort me: which surely I desire more than this life.  
I stick to thy testimonies O Lord, let me not be confounded.  
Out of the deep I have called unto thee, O lord: lord hear my voice.  
O let thine ears mark well the voice of my complaint  
O lord, if thou impute my sins unto me: how may I look for thy grace & pardon?  
But thy mercy exceedeth all things: and thy truth passeth the heavens.  
Wherefore my soul hath looked to thee: and to thee maketh humble prayers.  
O God, be not still, keep not silence: but for thine own sake, see that thy holy name be not dishonoured.  
Extend out thy mercy to them that call upon thee, and thy righteousness to them that seek thee.  
I have cast my burdeine upon thee, bear me up: and let me not always be in wavering, seeing that I have put my trust in thee.  
My soul cleaveth unto thee: make thy right hand to strengthen me against the power of mine enemies.  
Hear my, o lord, and deliver me: incline thine ears unto my prayers, and save me, for I am poor: O Lord have regard unto me.  
Thou, O Lord God, art my help, and my saviour.  
O God, thy way is holy and rightful, what God is so great as thou, our god, art.  
Thou doest marvelous things: thy name is the lord: thou only art the highest upon all the earth.  
Be now pacified toward thy servant: and hide thy face from me no longer.  
Be good unto me, O lord, as thou art full of goodness thyself, that I may glory in thee all the days of my life.  
My lips rejoice to sing praise unto thee: and even so doth my soul, which thou hast redeemed.  
My heart shall always study thy righteousness, when they shallbe confounded which seek to do my harm.  
I will run all the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt dilate, and enlarge my heart. Amen.   

¶ The seventh Psalm for an order and direction of good living.  
TO thee, O lord, I lift up my mind.  
In thee I trust, O lord God, let me not be confounded, lest mine enemies make me their jesting stock and a matter to laugh at.  
O Lord, make thy ways known unto me: and trade me in thy paths.  
direct me in thy truth, and instruct me: for thou art God my saviour: I look after thee every day.  
O Lord thou art sweet and rightful and bringest again into thy way, them that went out.  
Thou leadest straight in thy judgement them that be mild and tractable: and teachest them that be meek, thy words and testimonies.  
Thou healest them that be contrite in heart: & asswageste their pains & griefs.  
Thou holdest up all them, which else should fall: and all that are fallen: thou liftest up again.  
Thou givest sight to the blind, and losest them that be bounden.  
Thou art nigh unto all them that call upon thee: So that they call upon thee faithfully and heartily.  
Thou fulfilest the desire of them that fear thee: and hearest their prayer, and savest them.  
Have mercy upon me (O God) have mercy upon me: for in thee my soul trusteth.  
verily my soul hath a special respect unto thee: for my health, my glory, and all my strength cometh from thee.  
For thine own sake (O Lord God) lay not my sins to my charge.  
I understand not all mine errors: innumerable troubles close me round about, my sins have taken hold upon me: and I am not able to look up.  
Put to thy hand to help me: and lead me right in all my works.  
Make me to walk perfectly in thy ways, that no kind of sin overcome me.  
Set a watch before my mouth: and keep the door of my lips.  
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be ever pleasant and acceptable in thy sight.  
Let the word of truth never go away from my mouth: and suffer no malice to dwell in my heart.  
O Lord, deliver my soul from lying lips: and save me from the deceitful tongue  
Put into my mouth thy true and holy word: and take clean from me all idle and unfruitful speech.  
Deliver me from false surmises, & accusations of men: rule me even as thou thinkest good, after thy will & pleasure  
Turn away mine eyes, that they behold no vain things: fasten them in thy way.  
Take from me fornication and all uncleanness: & let not the love of the flesh beguile me  
Yea, deliver my soul from pride, that it reign not in me, and then shall I be clean from the greatest sin.  
Stay and keep my feet f●om every il way, lest my steps serve from thy paths.  
My eyes look ever up unto thee (O lord) because thou art nigh at hand: and all thy ways be the truth.  
Thy mercies be great and many (O lord) blessed is ●e, who soever truste●h in thee.  
For when I s●ied unto thee my feet be slipped: thy mercy (O Lord) by and by did hold me up.  
Teach me to do thy will, and lead me by thy path way, for thou art my God.  
O lord save my soul, and deliver me from the power of darkness.  
Let the brightness of thy face, shine upon thy servant, for unto thee (O Lord God) I ●aue ●edde for succour.  
Look unto me, and have mercy upon me: for I am desolate and poor.  
Keep my soul, & deliver me, that I be not confounded: for I have trusted in thee.  
O Lord God, forsake me not: although I have done no good in thy sight.  
For thy goodness grant me, that at the least wise now I may begin to live well. Amen.   

¶ The eight Psalm. A Christian man prayeth, that he may be defended from his enemies.  
O God almighty, save me from mine enemies: and by thy strong power defend and keep me.  
Preserve my soul, for thou art holy: save thy servant, which trusteth in thee.  
For strangers do assault me daily: and seek my soul to destroy it.  
O God help thou me: O lord, deliver me from them that rise up against me.  
Be ready, O God, to secure me: make haste to help me, O Lord.  
Be thou my protector, and a place of strength: wherein I may safely be.  
For thou art my strength and my refuge: for thy name sake lead and guide me.  
Take me, O God, out of the hands of mine enemies and cast me not away in the time of tribulation: when all my might is decayed & gone.  
Help me, O lord God, & save me for thy mercy's sake  
Have mercy upon me, O lord, the God of my health: and in thy righteousness deliver me.  
From the vexation of them that persecute me: from the assault of mine enemies: which compass me about on every side.  
Let them be confounded & brought to nought, which be adversaries unto my soul: let them be covered with shame and rebuke, which seek my hurt.  
Let them turn back with rebuke & shame, which say, God hath forsaken him: let us set on him and sake him: for there is none that shall deliver him.  
Conjoin thyself (o God) unto my soul: make it strong and deliver me from mine enemies.  
Destroy them by thy power: and bring to nought all their strength.  
That they rejoice not, and say among themselves, we have overcome him; and utterly cast him down.  
Save me (O Lord God) for in thee have I trusted: say to my soul, be not afraid, for I am with thee.  
It is in thy hand, what shall come of me, deliver me from mine enemies, for yet they cease not.  
Their cruelty increaseth daily more and more, & companies of tiranntes violently come on me and they have not thee before their eyes.  
But thou (o lord) not gracious and merciful, and sufferest long: and thy mercy and truth be great.  
Look unto me, and have mercy upon me: and endue thy servant with some of thy strength: for I call upon thee: and earnesty make my prayers in thy sight.  
My enemies rejoice, that I am fallen, and that my heart hath turned out of thy way.  
But I trust in thy mercy, and my heart is comforted, in hope to have help and salvation from thee.  
For thou art good & gracious, thy mercy endureth ever, and thy truth continueth from one generation to an other.  
Let all them rejoice in thee and be glad, which seek thee: and let them which love to have salvation of thee, say: magnified be the Lord for ever. Amen.   

¶ The ninth Psalm. Against enemies.  
SO lord and behold, how many they be which trouble me, how many which make rebellion against me.  
They say among them selves of my soul: There is no help of god for it to trust upon  
O lord god, in thee I have put my hope and trust: save me from them, which do persecute me, and deliver me.  
Lest peradventure at one time or an other, they take my life from me: and there be none to deliver me from them  
Have pity upon me (o lord) look upon the affliction, which I suffer of my enemies.  
Forget not thy poor servant, suffer not them, which be oppressed to look for help always in vain.  
Put them to flight: disappoinct them of their purposes: cast them down headlong as their wickedness hath deserved, for they are traitors and rebels against thee.  
Let their power be brought to nought: and their wickedness light upon their own heads.  
Let the wicked sinners return into hell, and let them fall, and be taken in the pit, which they have digged.  
I will trust in thee (o lord) which savest them, that in thee put their confidence.  
They say, that thou forgettest thy servants and that thou hidest thy face, because thou wilt not see their trouble  
Their pride is to us much grief and vexation: and they glory and triumph in our trouble and adversity.  
How long (O Lord) wilt thou stand a far of, & hide thyself in the time of tribulation?  
How long shall the wicked despise thee? and say in their heart, that thou regardest nothing.  
Rise up (O lord) stretch out thy hand: forget not them which be oppressed.  
Bring down the power of the wicked: that they may perish together with their wickedness.  
Let thy zeal suddenly come upon them: the fiery Thunder baltes, and the spirit of the whirl wind be portion of their part.  
Prevent me in the day of my tribulation: and deliver me out of my distress.  
Have mercy upon me, for I am troubled on every side and my strength is decayed, through mine iniquity.  
Mine enemies speak of me much shame & rebuke: an they are wholly bent to take my life from me.  
The pains of death compass me round about and the bloods of my sins trouble me sore.  
The ropes of hell be tied round about me: and I am wrapped in the snares of death and which way so ever I go. I find stumdling blocks, to overthrow me.  
Stand up (O Lord) and punish this naughty people, and deliver me from my deceitful enemies.  
Hear me in the day of my tribulation: let thy mighty name defend me.  
For thou art my fortress and my glory: and bearest up my weakness & infirmity.  
Save me Lord I beseech thee, that mine enemies prevail not against me.  
power out thy indignation upon them: and let the wrath of thy fury vex and trouble them.  
Let them be confounded for ever: yea, let them tremble and perish together.  
Let them fall into the deep pit: and never be able to rise up again.  
That they may know thy name to be the Lord of hosts only mighty and high, world without end. Amen.   

¶ The ten Psalm. When the enemies be so cruel, that he cannot suffer them.  
Have mercy upon me (o God) for thine enemy fredeth me under his feet: he ceaseth not to assault me, and to do me much grief:  
He always coveteth too swallow me up: and many there be that proudly brag and crack against me.  
They gather themselves together in corners: They watch my steps, how they may take my soul in a trap.  
They be like unto a Lion that is greedy of his prey, and like a young Lion, they privily lie in wait for me.  
They do beset my ways that I should not escape: they look and stare upon me; to take me in their snare.  
They have prepared a net for my feet: they have digged a deep pit, that my soul might fall therein.  
Make me strong (O lord GOD) by thy might and power: make my way perfect before thee.  
Keep my steps continually in right paths, least perchance my feet begin to slip.  
I am so vexed, that I am utterly weary: help me against them that lie in wait for me.  
Make thy mercy to be marvelous in me: and deliver my soul out of their hands.  
Hid me from the company of the wicked, and from the rage of them that work iniquity.  
According to thy great mercy quicken me, that now in my sorrow I be not brought under the power of mine enemy, which rageth against against me.  
Send forth thy light and thy truth, and they shall lea● me into thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.  
Instruct & teach my hands to battle: make my arms strong like a bow of steel.  
Gird me with strength to battle: overthrow them that arise against me.  
Instruct me in the way, wherein I may walk: provide for me by thy oversight  
Cast down mine enemies before my face: and destroy them that hate me.  
Lest mine enemies over come me, and the companies of tyrants overwhelm me.  
Make my feet to be steadfast: and my paths straight.  
They rejoice and be glad of my fall & declination: they be assembled together against me: they strike to kill me in the way, before I may beware of them.  
They curse and ban my words every day: and all their thoughts be set to do me harm.  
My life is as it were in the mids of fierce Lions: whose teeth be like unto spears: and their tongue like a sharp sword.  
And who shall stand with me against all these or who shall overcome these workers of iniquity?  
They shall flee and r●nne away (O Lord) a●●●ne as thou rebukest them, from the voice of thy thunder they shall ●enne headling.  
Which lookest upon the earth, and it wholly quaketh which touchest the hills, and they smoke: judgement proceedeth from thy face, thine eyes do approve equity.  
Keep me, O Lord, from mine adversaries: and under the shadow of thy wings defend me.  
judge them that hurt me: fight against them that fight with me.  
Let them go backward and have evil luck, which persecute me: put them to shame, that will my hurt.  
Make them to be as dust in the wind: and let thy angel vex and disquiet them.  
Let them vanish away like smoke: and as wax melteth with the heat of the fire, so let them perish, O lord, from thy sight and presence.  
Beat them down, that they be not able to stand: never give over, until thou have utterly destroyed them.  
Make their ways dark and slippie: and let thine angel fiercely go upon them.  
And thou, O Lord God, have mercy upon me: send me help, and then I shallbe able to resist them.  
For I am weak and in sorrow: give thou me health and salvation.  
Let thy hand correct and chastise me: But deliver me not unto mine enemies.  
My soul is filled with the scorning, and derision that mine enemies have at me: and with the despite fullness of the proud.  
My soul is clean discouraged within me: it groaneth and fretteth in itself against me: yet will I trust in thee: for that I shall eftsoons give thee thanks again for the help and salvation that thou sendest me.  
For thy very truth now help me, O thou which art my health, and the hope and comfort of all regions of the earth, and of the main Sea.  
Which by thy power rulest from the beginning: thine eyes behold all things.  
What God is there but thou? Who is so strong as thou our God?  
In thy protection I will trust until iniquity be passed and gone.  
In thee, I shall be strong and sure for evermore.   

¶ The xi Psalm. Of confidence and trust in God.  
O Lord, which art my light and my health: of whom shall I be afraid? O lord thou art the stength of my life: in thee I will ever trust.  
For like as the Heart (when he is chased) coveteth to the rivers of water: even so (O Lord) my soul desireth to be with thee.  
My soul thirsteth to be with thee: For with thee is the fountain of life, and recreation in adversity.  
Here in this world is labour and pain: Calamity, and misery.  
We have battle daily with enemies: we have no rest here so long as we live.  
But when so ever we put our trust in thy help: then we shallbe sure by thy protection: saying unto thee, thou art our defender, our refuge, and our God, and in thee we trust.  
Thou shalt deliver me from the snares of the Hunters: and from the perils of my persecutors.  
Thou shalt make a shadow for me under thy shoulders: and under thy wings I shallbe harmless.  
Thy truth shall be my shield and buckler: and no evil shall approach near unto me.  
And therefore if my enemies shall war against me that they may devour me wholly: yet I will not flee, nor turn my back.  
Although never so strong enemies shall pitch their tents against me, my heart shall not be afraid: If death suddenly come upon me, in thee will I rest without fear.  
Thou shalt hide me in thy Tabernacle, in the time of adversity thou shalt hide me in some secret place of thy tent: thou shalt set me upon a sure rock.  
Thou shalt lift me up above mine enemies, be sieging me round about: and thou shalt deliver me out of their hands.  
If I shall walk in the midnes of tribulation, thou shalt keep me, and shalt stretch forth thy hand against mine enemies: and thy right hand shall save me.  
O Lord, thou shalt do and bring to pass all things for me, thy mercy endureth ever: thou wilt not despise thy own handy work.  
Thou shalt lead me out of the net, which mine enemies have spread abroad to catch me in: thou shalt take me out of their pit.  
O how great be the good things, which thou layest up in store for them that fear thee.  
Which also thou showest to them that trust in thee, even in the sight of the children of men.  
Thou hidest them in the secret place of thy countenance from trouble of enemies: and from their contentions.  
O Lord, what a precious treasure is thy goodness? and men shall trust in thy protection.  
They shall be filled with the plentifulness of thy house: and thou shalt make them drink of thy River of dainties.  
They shall drink with thee of the fountain of life, and in thy light, the● shall see light.  
Thy righteousness is as the highest mountains: and thy judgements be like unto the deep bottomless waters.  
Thy mercy stretcheth up to the heavens: and thy truth ascendeth up to the same.  
O Lord God, thou haste ever from age to age, been our refuge and succour.  
Before the foundations of the ●earth were laid, without beginning and ending, thou art God.  
O my God, thou hast helped me ever from my youth: and until my old age, and last days forsake me not.  
I will acknowledge, that I have all my strength of thee, for thou art my protection, my God, and my saviour.  
And therefore what time so ever I shall be afraid: I will trust in thee.  
What time so ever I shall call upon thee: I know that thou art my God.  
Keep thy mercy for me always: and the covenant that thou haste made with me, let it be surely performed.  
And if I have swerved from thy law, and not walked in thy judgements.  
If I have broken thy statutes, and transgressed thy commandments.  
Then with thy rod visit mine offences: and with stripes correct my trespasses.  
But take not thy mercy away from me, not let not thy promise be void, and of none effect.  
Break not the covenant that thou haste made with me, & channge not that which hath issued out of thy mouth  
For in thee (O GOD) our health and glory doth consist, thou art our helper, in whom we do ever trust.  
And this is certain, that all they, which trust in thee, shall not be confounded.  
For who is he that hath trusted in thee, and is confounded?  
For thy name sake, o lord, thou forgivest our sins, although they be many, and grievous.  
Thou art a sure stay to them that dreads thee: and showest them thy testament.  
And unto thee I cry (O lord) and I believe, that thou wilt save me, for thy great mercy's sake.  
Thou shalt redeem my soul in peace, from the wrath which is to come in the last day.  
I will offer up to thee Sacrifice of laud & praise: And I will render up my vows to thee, which art the highest  
The wicked watch, and look to destroy me: But I trust in thy mercy.  
Thou art my protector, and my buckler: my GOD, my strength, my refuge, and deliverer.  
I tarry and look for help from thee (O lord) blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.  
O lord, what great pleasures thou hast prepared for me in heaven: that I should delight in no earthly thing, but in thee?  
My most pleasure is to clean fast unto thee: and in thee to set my hope and trust.  
I commit my spirit unto thy hands: deliver me from the powers of darkness of this world. Amen.   

¶ The twelve Psalm. If GOD defer to help long tyme.  
O My God, my Go●, why forsakest thou me? why lookest not upon my necessity.  
Shall thy mercy fail for ever? Wilt thou never be pleased more?  
How long wilt thou be miscontented with me, O lord: wilt thou kindle thine anger thoroughly as it were fire?  
When wilt thou have any regard to deliver my soul? To deliver my life from destruction of enemies.  
How long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? How long shall I make exclamation for very pain, and thou wilt not save me?  
O lord god of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry with the prayers of thy servant?  
Come again unto me (O God my saviour) & take away thine indignation against me.  
When thou art turned (O Lord) thou tha● restore all things again: and he that was in sadness before; shall take joy and comfort of thee.  
Let thy hand be to help man, which is thy h●ndy work, whom thou hast exalted, and magnified to set forth thy glory.  
Mine enemies live wealthily and are strong: and they which hate me, increase and go forward daily.  
They despraise and set at nought my counsel, because I take God for my hope and comfort.  
They say to me daily, thou trustest in God, let him deliver thee; and save thee: if so be that he hear love and favour towards thee.  
They leap at me as it were so many dogs: the companies of the wicked bark at me: they beset my hands and feet round about.  
O Lord, go not far away from me: thou art my strength: make speed to help me.  
Deliver my soul from death turn my way from the rage of dogs.  
Keep m● out of the mouth of Lions: and save me from the deep lake.  
Thou art both holy and strong, and no man is able to resist thee: when thy anger is great and fervent.  
Who shall not fear thee (O Lord?) Or which of all princes shall not obey thee?  
The earth trembleth and quaketh for fear of thine anger? & the people shall not be able to abide thy threatening.  
Help me, O Lord God my saviour: and for the glory of thy name ●eliuer me: & forgive me my trespasses.  
For I do utter & express mine iniquity unto thee: & my sin grieveth me very sore.  
Arise up (O Lord) and help me: and deliver me for thy mercy's sake.  
O god, my refuge, and my strength, which haste been ever a great help in tribulation.  
Thou diddeste receive me into thy tuition, when I came out of my mother's womb, and thou m●ste my helper, when I sucked my mother's breasts.  
I was left to th●● as soon as I was borne, even from my mother● womb, thou art my God.  
Withdraw not th● self far away from me: for tribulation is near at hand, and there is none that can help me.  
Mine enemies compass me round about my persecutors besiege me on every side.  
And I am feeble and weak and sore broken: the pain of my heart maketh me to gron and sigh.  
I am as the water that is cast forth: my strength is gone, and utterly dried up, as if it were a tile stone.  
Have mercy upon me (O Lord) have mercy upon me: and impute not my sins, unto me, which I have done by folly.  
Remember not my sins passed, let thy mercies prevent them: for I am in a marvelous wretched case.  
I am weakened and clean out worn: and go mourning every day.  
And now (O Lord) what look I after? verily my soul looketh to thee for help.  
Show now and declare thy goodness to me, & withhold not thy help from me.  
My soul is replenished with troubles and adversities, and draweth near unto deaths door.  
I am in great poverty and need, and my heart is sore troubled within me.  
Cast not me away in the time of my most necessity: and now when my stength faileth me, fail not thou me O Lord.  
Deliver me from mine enemies: and make me not a mocking stock to them, that jest and rail upon me.  
Save me from these roaring Lions ready to devour, and from the hands of them that would have my life from me.  
I do cry to thee (O lord) for thou art my hope, and my portion in the land of livers.  
Bring my soul out of prison, and set my feet in a place where I may walk at liberty.  
Turn not thy face away from me, least I be made like unto them that descend intot the pit.  
Give ear unto my prayers: for I am punished, and brought very low,  
Deliver me from my persecutors: for they be much stronger than I  
O Lord hear me speedily, lest my spirit fail within me.  
Deliver my soul out of trouble, and in thy mercy destroy all mine enemies.  
And make them to perish which would destroy me: for I am thy servant. Amen.   

¶ The xiij Psalm. In which he giveth thanks to god that his enemies have not gotten the overhand of him.  
I Will magnify and praise thee (O Lord GOD) for thou hast exalted me, and set me up: and my enemies have not gotten the overhand of me.  
O Lord of hosts, I have cried unto thee: and thou hast saved me.  
Thou haste brought my soul out of hell: thou haste holden me up from falling into the deep lake, from whence no man returneth.  
Thou haste not closed me up in the hands of mine enemies: but thou hast set my feet in a place both wide and broad.  
I have sought thee; and thou hast heard me: thou hast brought me into liberty out of great distress.  
Thou hast turned my sorrow into gladness: thou hast ceased my mourning, and compassed me round about with mirth.  
Thou haste declared thy great magnificence, in helping thy servant.  
Thou hast done mercifully with me in my miseries.  
Thou hast regarded the pain of the poor: thou hast not turned a way thy face from me.  
I will ever be singing and speaking of thy mercies: and I will publish to other thy fidelity and truth, so long as I shall live.  
My mouth shall never cease to speak of thy righteousness, and of thy benefits: which be so many that I can not number them.  
But I will give thee thanks till death take me away I will sing in the praise of thee so long as I shall continue.  
I will triumph and rejoice in thy mercy, for that thou hast looked upon my necessities, and regard my soul in my great distress.  
Thou haste been my sure refuge, and the strength of my trust, and hope.  
I thank thee Lord for thy goodness alway: and for thy exceeding mercy.  
Thou haste been my comfort in the time of my trouble, thou hast been merciful unto me, o lord, and hast revenged the wrongs the mine enemies have done to me.  
According to the multitude of the heavy thoughts that I had in my mind, thy comforts have cleared and lightened my heart.  
Thou haste sent me now joy, for the days wherein I was in sorrow: and for the years in whom I suffered many a painful storm.  
Thou hast called to rem●braunce the rebuke that thy servant hath been put to: and how furiously mine enemies have persecuted me.  
O lord god of hosts, who may be compared unto thee? thou art great and greatly to be praised.  
Thou art high upon all the earth, thou art exalted far above all Gods.  
Glory and honour before thy face: holiness & magnificence in thy sanctuary.  
With justice and judgement thy royal throne is established: mercy and truth go before thy face.  
Blessed art thou (O lord) which hast not holden back thy mercy from thy servant.  
After that I had long looked for thee (O Lord) at the last thou didst attend unto me, and heardest my cry.  
Thou hast taken me out of the lake of misery: and set my feet upon a rock, and made my steps sure.  
Thou haste given me my desire: I have seen thy joyful countenance.  
Thou haste stricken all my adversaries, and hast abated their strength.  
Thou haste rebuked the rabblement of them that vexed me: and hast plucked me forth of their hands.  
Thou haste cast them headling into their own pit: their feet be wrapped in the Net, which they laid privily for me.  
Mine enemies are recoiled back: they are fallen down, and destroyed from thy sight.  
Thou hast been the poor man's defence, and his helper in tribulation, when most need was.  
Thou haste done judgement for me: thou haste defended my cause against my accusers.  
And although thou were very angry with me a little while: yet now I live thorough thy mercy & goodness. Uerly I supposed with myself, that I was clean cast away out of thy favour.  
But thou hast heard my prayers: and according to thy great mercy, hast taken me again into thy favour.  
O Lord, of thine own mind and will, thou hast given strength unto my soul: but when thou hidest thy face from me (o lord) how greatly was I astonished?  
When I was in adversity, than I cried unto thee: and thou didst answer me: when my soul was in great anguish and trouble then (O lord) I did remember thee.  
I have tasted & seen how sweet thou art: truly blessed is that man that trusteth in thee.  
According to thy name, so is thy commendation & praise: but thy counsels touching us be without example, and greater than can with words be expressed.  
Dominion, power, and glory be thine: for thou haste made all things: and because thy will is so: they do still continue.  
Thy name be blessed, praised, and magnified both now and ever, world without end. Amen.   

¶ The xiij Psalm. In the which the goodness of God is praised.  
O Lord our governor, how wonderful is thy majesty throughout the whole world? which hast set thy glory above all the heavens.  
What is man that thou magnifieste him so greatly? Or the son man that thou dost visit him?  
O Lord, thou art great and much to be praised in thy holy hill.  
Praise be unto thee (O Lord God) let our vows made to thee be always performed.  
Confession and magnificence are thy work: and thy righteousness continueth for evermore.  
Thou haste done many things (O lord God) both marvelous and great: and there is none that can be like unto thee in thy work.  
Thy ways be just & true, who will not fear and dread thee, and magnify thy name  
I thank thee (o lord God) with all my heart: and I will hallow thy name for ever.  
O lord thou art my strength and my praise: Thou haste brought down mine enemies, which art a judge even from the beginning.  
The right hand is exceeding strong: thy right hand worketh many great acts.  
Thine arm is mighty and strong, and because it hath pleased thee, thou hast strengthened mine infirmity.  
I will praise thy great and dreadful name: for it is holy.  
Although I have fallen, yet I am not crushed in pieces: for thou haste sustained my hand.  
I have opened and showed my way unto thee: and in thee I have trusted, and thou at length haste accomplished my desires.  
Thou hast broken the heads of mine enemies, and haste made them to stoop: which walked proudly in their sins.  
Thou hast dominion over their power, and when they be exalted and set a loft in their ways, thou abateste their courage, and destroyest them with thy mighty arm.  
In thy name, I will ever rejoice, and in thy mercy is all my glory.  
Thou lovest righteousness and judgement: the earth is replenished with thy mercy  
Thy eye looketh favourably upon them that dread thee, and trust in thy mercy.  
There shall no good thing be lacking to them that seek thee, and they that fear thee, shall not be helpless.  
For thou dost order their ways, & hearest them when they cry unto thee.  
That thou mayest deliver their soul from death: and suage their pains when they be grieved.  
For thou helpest them, whose hearts be broken with sorrow: and bear'st up with thy hand them that be contrite in spirit.  
Thou savest the souls of thy servants, and all they that trust in thee, shall not be destroyed.  
Wherefore my tongue shall sing thy praise (O lord god) I will always magnify thee.  
I will love thee (O lord) which art my strength, my stay, my might, my saviour and my refuge.  
My God, my defender, and my buckler, the strength of my salvation, and my supporter.  
After that I had called upon thee with due laud and praise, thou haste saved me from mine enemies.  
When I was in trouble I called upon thee, thou haste heard my voice out of thy holy temple, and my cry hath entered up into thine ears.  
Thou hast saved me from mine adversaries, that rose up against me: thou hast delivered me from wicked enemies.  
Then haste taken me from the company of evil men and mine eye hath seen upon mine enemies, the things that I desired.  
And therefore if it should fortune me to pass through the dark vale of death: I will go without fear: For thou wilt be with me, thy rod and thy staff shall comfort me.  
Thou shalt deliver me from tribulation: thou shalt hope me from them, which seek to destroy me.  
Mine eyes be upon thee (O Lord) for thou shalt bring my feet forth of the snare.  
Unto thee (O Lord God) I will perform my vows, I will give thee thanks both now and evermore: world without eror. Amen.   

¶ The xu Psalm. Of the benefits of God, with thanks for the same.  
MY soul praiseth thee (O Lord) and all that is within me, praiseth thy holy name.  
My soul giveth thee humble thanks, and thy benefits I will never forget.  
Which forgivest all my sins and healest all my infirmity.  
With haste saved my life from destruction: and showed in me thy grace and mercy.  
Which he hast satisfied my desire with good things, & shalt once restore my youth again.  
Thou haste entreated me mercifully at all times, and haste revenged me of mine enemies.  
Thou haste been a defence to me (O Lord) and a sure foundation of my wealth.  
Thou hast guided me with thy counsel, and taken me to thee, through thy mercy.  
Thou haste many ways, declared in me thy great might and power, and after thine anger hath been past, thou hast turned again and comforted me.  
Thou hast sent me many grievous troubles, but at the length thou haste brought me out of the bottomless deepness.  
Thou haste made me privy to thy ways, and haste not hid thy counsels from me.  
Thou art full of mercy and grace (O Lord) slow to wrath, and ready to goodness.  
Thy displeasure lasteth not alway, and thou keepest not back thy mercies in thine anger for ever.  
Thou rewardest us not, according to our sins, nor punishest us, according to our deserts.  
Look how high the heaven is, in comparison of the earth: so great is thy mercy towards us.  
How far as the east is distant from the West: so far (O Lord) remove our sins from us.  
Like as a natural father, hath pity upon his children: even so, O Lord God, thou hast had compassion upon us.  
Thou haste not forgotten thy creature: Thou remember'st that we are flesh, yea, all men living.  
And that the age of men is like unto grass, and may be compared to the flowers in the field.  
Which as soon as the sharp wind hath blown upon them with his blasts, wither away & die, so that no man can tell where they did grow.  
But thy mercy, O lord, and thy loving kindness is always upon them that fear thee: and thy righteousness endureth for ever.  
So that we keep our promise and covenant with thee: and so remember thy commandments, that we do them in deed.  
O Lord, thou hast established thy throne in heaven: and thou governest 〈◊〉 things by thin imperial power  
I will magnify thee, O GOD, and praise thy name world without end.  
I will give thee thanks alway, and make thy name glorious for ever.  
O Lord thou art puissant and great: and thy magnificence is unsearchable.  
One generation shall show to an other thy works, and they shall declare thine ancient noble acts.  
They shall ever praise the magnificence of the glory of thy holiness, and the memory of thy great goodness.  
For thou art good and gracious to all men, and thy mercy exceedeth all thy works.  
The eyes of all men behold, and wait upon there: that thou shouldst give them their sustenance in time convenient.  
Thou openest thine hand and fillest every living creature with food necessary.  
O Lord, thou art rightful in all thy ways, and holy in all thy deeds.  
Thou keepest all them that love thee, and the torment of malice shall not touch thee.  
My mouth shall speak thy glory and praise, and all living creatures shall honour thy holy name for ever.  
Praise the lord, O ye his Angels mighty in power, which do his commandments, and obey the voice of his word.  
Praise ye altogether God, O ye all his hosts, you his ministers, that do his will and pleasure.  
Praise the Lord, O ye all his saints, for his name is glorious, and his praise goeth above both heaven and earth.  
Praise the lord together, O ye, all his works, every thing that liveth, praise ye the Lord. Amen.  
FINIS. XV. PSALMORUM.   

¶ The xxj Psalm. Of David. The complaint of Christ on the Crosse.  
MY God my God, why hast thou forsaken me? It seemeth that I shall not obtain deliverance, though I seek for it with loud cries.  
My God, I will cry all the day long, but thou wilt not answer: and all the night long, without taking any rest.  
The mean time thou most holiest, seemest to sit still not caring for the things that I suffer: which so oft haste helped me heretofore, and haste given to thy people Israel, sufficient argument and matter to praise thee with songs, wherewith they have given thanks to thee for thy benefits.  
Our forefathers were wont to put their trust in thee: and as often as they did so, thou didst deliver them.  
As oft as they cried for help to thee, they were delivered: as oft as they committed themself to thee, they were not put to any shame.  
But as for me, I seem rather to be a worm, than a man: the dunghill of Adam, the outcast of the vulgar people.  
As many as have seen me: have laughed me to scorn, and reviled me, and shaking their heads in derision at me, they cast me in the feeths, saying: he is wont to boast and glory, that he is in great favour with God: wherefore let God now deliver him, if he love him so well.  
By thy procurement (O lord) I came out of my mother's womb: and thou gavest me good comfort: even when I sucked my mother's breasts.  
Through thy means I came into this world: and as soon as I was borne, I was left to thy tuition: yea thou waste my God, when I was yet in my mother's womb.  
Wherefore go not far away from me: for danger is even now at hand, and I so no man that will help me.  
Many Bulls have closed me in, both strong and fat, they have compassed me round about.  
They have opened their mouth against me, like unto a Lion that gapeth upon his prey, and roareth for hunger.  
I am powered out like water, and all my limbs loosed one from tother, and my heart is melted within me, as it were wax.  
All my strength is gone, and dried up like unto a tile stone, my tongue cleaveth to the roof of my mouth: and at the last I shallbe buried in the earth, as the dead be wont.  
For dogs have compassed me round about: and the most wicked have conspired against me, they have made holes through my hands and my feet.  
I was so ungently entreated of them, that I might easily number all my bones: and after all the pain & torment that they did to me, with grievous countenance they stared and looked upon me.  
They divided my clothes among them, and cast lots for my coat.  
Wherefore Lord, I beseech thee, go not far from me: but for as much as thou art my power & my strength make haste to help me.  
Deliver my soul from danger of the sword, and keep my life, destitute of all men's help, from the violence of the dog.  
Save me from the mouth of the Lion, and take me from the horns of the unicorns.  
I will show unto my brethren, the Majesty of thy name: and when the people is most assembled together I will praise and set forth thy most worthy acts and deeds.  
All that worship the lord, praise him, all the posterity of jacob magnify him, all ye that be of the stock of Israel, with reverence serve and honour him.  
For he hath not despised and set at nought the poor man, because of his misery: nor he hath not disdainfully turned away his face from him, but rather as soon as the poor man cried unto him for help, he heard him by and by.  
I will praise thee with my songs openly in a multitude of people, & I will perform my vows in the fight of them that honour thee.  
The poor shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the lord that study to please him: and as many of you as continue still such, your hearts shall live.  
All the ends of the world shall consider these things, and be turned to the lord: and all Heathen nations shall submit themselves, and do homage unto thee.  
For the Lord hath a power royal, and an Imperial dominion over the heathen.  
The most mighty and greatest of all them that dwell on the earth, have eaten, and after that they have tasted the spiritual gifts of the Lord, they have submitted themself, and made humble suit unto him: yea, and all the dead, which are huried in the earth, shall kneel and make reverence in his honour, because he hath not disdained to spend his own life for them.  
They that shall come after us, shall honour and serve him.  
These things shall be written of the Lord, that our posterity may know, and understand them.  
That they also may come and show these things to the people that shallbe borne of them, that the Lord hath done these things, which be so marvelous.   

A Psalm of thanks giving. jubilate deo omnis terra.  
Rejoice and sing in the honour of the Lord, all ye that live on earth.  
Worship and serve the Lord with gladness, come into his sight and presence with joy and mirth.  
Acknowledge you, and confess, that the Lord is that GOD, which hath created and made us, for truly we made not ourself, but we be his people, and his flock, which he nourisheth and feedeth continually.  
Go ye through his gates to give him thanks for the innumerable benefits, which ye have received of him: and to sing through his courts, his worthy acts and deeds: praise him, and highly commend his name.  
For the lord is both good and gracious, and his mercy is infinite: he is most constant in keeping of his promises, not to one generation only, but even to all.   

¶ A Psalm to be said in the time of any common plague, sickness, or other cross and visitation of God.  
O Come, let us humble ourselves & fall down before the Lord with reverence and fear.  
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hands.  
Come therefore, let us turn again unto our lord, for he hath smitten us, and he shall heal us.  
Let us repent, and turn from our wickedness, and our sins shallbe forgiven us.  
Let us turn, and the Lord will turn from his heavy wrath, and will pardon us, & we shall not perish.  
For we knowledge our fault, and our sins be ever before us.  
We have sore provoked thine anger, O Lord, thy wrath is waxed hot, and thy heavy displeasure is sore kindled against us.  
Thou haste in thine indignation stricken us with grievous sickness, and by and by we have fallen as leaves, beaten down with a vehement wind.  
In deed we acknowledge, that all punishments are less than our deservings: but yet of thy mercy Lord, correct us to amendment, and plague us not to our destruction.  
For thy hand is not shortened, that thou canst not help neither is thy goodness abated, that thou wilt not hear.  
Thou haste promised, O Lord, that afore we cry, thou wilt hear us: whilst we yet speak, thou wilt have mercy upon us.  
For none that trust in thee shallbe confounded: neither any that call upon thee shallbe despised.  
For thou art the only Lord, who woundest, and dost heal again, who killest and reviueste, bryngeste even to hell, and bryngeste back against.  
Our fathers hoped in thee, they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them.  
They called upon thee, and were helped: they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded.  
O Lord, rebuke not us in thine indignation, neither chasten us in thy heavy displeasure.  
O remember not the sins, & offences of our youth: but according to thy mercy think thou upon us, o lord for thy goodness.  
Have mercy upon us, O Lord, for we are weak: O Lord heal us, for our bones are vexed.  
And now in the vexation of our spirits, and the anguish of our souls, we remember thee, and we cry unto thee: hear Lord, and have mercy.  
For thine own sake, and for thy holy names sake, incline thine ear, and hear, O merciful Lord.  
For we do not power out our prayers before thy face, trusting in our own righteousness: but in thy great and manifold mercies.  
Wash us thoroughly from our wickedness: and cleanse us from our sins.  
Turn thy face from our sins, and put out all our misdeeds.  
Make us clean hearts, O God: and renew a right spirit within us.  
Help us, o God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: O deliver us, and be merciful unto our sins, for thy name's sake.  
So we that be thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks for ever, and will always be showing forth thy praise, from generation to generation.  
Glory be to the father. etc.  
As it was in the begin. etc.   

¶ A Psalm of thanksgiving, for deliverance from the plague, or any other kind of sickness trouble, or affliction.  
Lord, thou art become gracious unto thy land, thou hast turned alway the afflictions of thy servants.  
Thou hast taken away all thy displeasure, and turned thyself from thy wrathful indignation.  
For if thou lord, hadst not helped us, it had not failed but our souls had been put to silence.  
But when we said our feet have slipped, thy mercy, O lord helped us up.  
In the multitude of the sorrows, that we had in our hearts, thy comforts have refreshed our souls.  
Our souls waited still upon the lord, our souls hanged upon his help, our hope was always in him.  
In the lords word did we rejoice, in God's word did we comfort ourselves.  
For the lord said: call upon me in the time of trouble, and I will hear thee, and thou shalt praise me.  
So when we were poor, needy, sickly, and in heaviness, the lord cared for us: he was our help and our saviour, according to his word.  
In our adversity and distress, he hath lift up our heads, and saved us from utter destruction.  
He hath delivered our souls from death, he hath fed us in the time of dearth, he hath saved us from the noisome pestilence.  
Therefore will we offer in his holy temple, the oblation of thanksgiving with great gladness: we will sing, and speak praises unto the lord our saviour.  
We will give thanks unto the lord for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth for ever.  
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy, long suffering, plenteous in goodness and pity.  
His mercy is greater than the heavens, & his gracious goodness reacheth unto the clouds.  
Like as a father pitieth his own children: even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him.  
Therefore will we praise thee and thy mercies, o God: unto thee will we sing, O thou holy one of Israel.  
We will sing a new song unto thee, O God: we will praise the Lord with Psalms of thanks giving.  
O sing praises, sing praises unto our GOD: O sing praises, sing praises unto our king.  
For God is the king of the earth, sing praises with understanding.  
We will magnify thee, O GOD our king, we will praise thy name for ever and ever.  
Every day will we give thanks unto thee, and praise thy name for ever and ever.  
Our mouth shall speak the praises of the Lord, and let all flesh give thanks to his holy name for ever and ever.  
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for ever: and blessed be the name of his Majesty, world without end. Amen.  
Glory be to the father, etc. As it was in the begin. etc.  
FINIS.    


The Queen's prayers Or Meditations: wherein the mind is stirred to suffer all afflictions here.  
Imprinted at London, by H. Wykes.   

Colloss. iij.  
¶ If ye be risen again with Christ, seek the things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God: set your affection on things that are above, not on things which are on the earth.   

most benign Lord jesus, grant me thy grace, that it may alway work in me, and persevere with me unto th'end  
Grant me, that I may ever desire and will that, which is most pleasant, and most acceptable to thee.  
Thy will be my will, and my will be to follow alway thy will.  
Let there be alway in me one will, and one desire with thee, and that I have no desire to will, or not to will, but as thou wilt.  
Lord thou knowest what things is most profitable, and most expedient for me.  
Give therefore what thou wilt, as much as thou wilt, and when thou wilt.  
Do with me what thou wilt, as it shall please thee, and as shallbe most to thine honour.  
Put me where thou wilt, and freely do with me in all things after thy will.  
Thy creature I am, and in thy hands, lead and turn me where thou wilt.  
Lo, I am thy servant, ready to do all things that thou commandest: for I desire not to live to myself, but to thee.  
Lord jesus, I pray thee, grant me grace, that I never set my heart on the things of this world, but that all worldly and carnal affections, may utterly die, and be mortified in me.  
Grant me above all things, that I may rest in thee, and fully quiet and pacify my heart in thee.  
For thou lord art the very true peace of heart, and the perfect rest of the soul: and without thee, all things be grievous and unquiet.  
My lord jesus, I beseech thee, be with me in every place and at all times, and let it be to me a special solace, gladly for thy love too lack all worldly solace.  
And if thou withdraw comfort from me at any time, keep me, O lord, from desperation, and make me paceintly to abide thy will and ordinance.  
O Lord jesus, thy judgements be righteous, and thy providence is much better for me, than all that I can imagine or devise.  
Wherefore do with me in all things, as it shall please thee: for it may not be but well, all that thou dost.  
If thou wilt that I be in light, be thou blessed, if thou wilt that I be in darkness, be thou also blessed.  
If thou vouchsafe to comfort me, be thou highly blessed: if thou wilt I live in trouble, and without comfort, be thou likewise ever blessed.  
Lord, give me grace gladly to suffer, whatsoever thou wilt shall fall upon me, and patiently to take it at thy hand good and had, bitter and sweet, joy and sorrow: and for all things that shall befall unto me, heartily too thank thee.  
Keep me lord from sin & I shall then neither dread death nor hell.  
O what thanks ought I to give unto thee, which hast suffered the grievous death of the Cross, to deliver me from my sins, and to obtain everlasting life for me.  
Thou gavest us most perfect example of patience fulfilling and obeying the will of thy father: even unto the death.  
Make me wretched sinner, obediently to use myself after thy will in all things, and patiently too bear the burden of this corruptible life.  
For though this life be tedious, and as an heavy burden to my soul: yet nevertheless through thy grace, and by example of thee, it is now made much more easy and comfortable, than it was before thy incarnation and passion. Thy holy life is our way to thee, and by following of thee, we walk to thee that art our head and saviour: and yet except thou hadst gone before, and showed us the way to everlasting life. Who would endeavour himself to follow thee? Seeing we be yet so slow and dull, having the light of thy blessed example, and holy doctrine to lead and direct us.  
O Lord jesus, make that possible by grace, that is too me impossible by nature.  
Thou knowest well that I may little suffer, and that I am anon cast down, and overthrown with a little adversity: wherefore I beseech thee, O lord, to strengthen me with thy spirit, that I may willingly suffer for thy sake all manner of trouble and affliction.  
Lord, I will knowledge unto thee all mine unrighteousness, and I will confess to thee all the unstableness of my heart.  
Oftentimes a very little thing troubleth me sore, and maketh me du●le, and slow to serve thee.  
And sometime I purpose to stand strongly but when a little trouble cometh, it is to me great anguish and grief, and of a right little thing riseth a geevous temptation to me.  
Yea, when I think myself to be sure and strong, and that (as it seemeth) I have the upper hand: suddenly I feel myself ready to fall with a little blast of temptation.  
Behold therefore good lord my weakness, and consider my frailness best known to thee.  
Have mercy on me, and deliver me from all iniquity and sin, that I be not entangled therewith.  
Oftentimes it grieveth me sore, and in manner confoundeth me, that I am so unstable, so weak, and so frail, in resisting sinful motions.  
Which although they draw me not away to consent, yet nevertheless their assaults be very grievous unto me.  
And it is tedious to me to live in such battle, albeit I perceive that such battle is not unprofitable unto me.  
For thereby I know the better myself, & mine own infirmities, and that I must seek help only at thy hands.  
O lord God of Israel, the lover of all faithful souls, vouchsafe to behold the labour and sorrow of me thy poor creature.  
assist me in all things with thy grace, & so strength me with heavenly strength that neither my cruel enemy the f●ende, neither my wretched flesh (which is not yet subject to the spirit) have victory or dominion over me.  
O what a life may this be called, where no trouble nor misery lacketh? Where every place is full of snares of moral enemies?  
For one trouble or temptation overpassed, an other cometh by and by, and the first conflict yet during, a new battle suddenly ariseth  
Wherefore Lord jesus, I pray thee give me the grace to rest in thee above all things, and to quiet me in thee above all creatures, above all glory and honour, above all dignity and power, above all cunning & policy, above all health and beauty, above all riches and treasure, above all joy and pleasure, above all fame and praise, above all mirth and consolation that man's heart may take or feel besides thee.  
For thou Lord God, art best, most wise, most high, most mighty, most sufficient, and most full of goodness, most sweet, and most comfortable, most fair, most loving, most noble, most glorious, in whom all goodness most perfectly is.  
And therefore, whatsoever I have beside thee, it is nothing to me: For my heart may not rest, ne fully be pacified, but only in thee.  
O Lord jesus, most loving spouse, who shall give me wings of perfect love, that I may fly up from these worldly miseries, and rest in thee.  
O when shall I ascend to thee, and see and feel how sweet thou art.  
When shall I wholly gather myself in thee, so perfectly, that I shall not for thy love feel myself, thee only above myself, and above all worldly things, that thou majesty vouchsaufe to visit me in such wise, as thou dost visit thy most faithful lovers.  
Now I often mourn and complain of the miseries of this life, and with sorrow and great heaviness suffer them.  
For many things happen daily to me, which oftentimes trouble me, make me heavy, and darken mine understanding.  
They hinder me greatly and put my mind from thee and so encumber me many ways, that I can not freely, and clearly desire thee, ne have thy sweet consolations which with thy blessed saints be alway present.  
I beseech thee, Lord jesus, that the sighings, and inward desires of my heart, may moon and incline thee to hear me.  
O jesus, king of everlaking glory, the joy and comfort of all Christian people, that are wandering as pilgrims, in the wilderness of this world my heart crieth to thee by still desires, and my silence speaketh unto thee, & saith: how long tarrieth my Lord God to come to me.  
Come, O Lord, and visit me: for without thee I have no true joy, without thee, my soul is heavy and sad.  
I am in prison and bound with Fetters of sorrow, till thou, O lord, with thy gracious prsence vouchsafe too visit me, and to bring me again to liberty, and joy of spirit, & to show thy favourable countenance unto me.  
Open my heart lord, that I may behold thy laws, and teach me to walk in thy commandments.  
Make me to know and follow thy will, and to have always in my remembrance thy manifold benefits that I may yield due thanks to thee for them.  
But I knowledge and confess for truth, that I am not able to give the● condign thanks of the least benefit that thou hast given me.  
O lord all gifts and virtues, that any man hath in body, or soul, natural, or supernatural, be thy gifts, and come of thee, and not of ourself, and they declare the great riches of thy mercy and goodness unto us.  
And though some have no gifts then other, yet they all proceed from thee, and without thee, the least can not be had.  
O Lord, I account it for a great benefit, not to have many worldly gifts, whereby the laud & praise of men might blind my soul, and deceive me.  
Lord, I know that no man ought to be abashed, or misco●tente, that he is in a low estate in thsi world, and lacketh the pleasures of this life: But rather to be glad, and rejoice thereat.  
For so much as thou hast chosen the poor and meek persons, and such as are despised in the world, to be thy servants, and familiar friends.  
Witness be thy blessed Apostles, whom thou mad'st chief Pastors, and Spiritual governors of thy ●locke which departed from the counsel of the jews, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for thy name.  
Even so O Lord, grant that I thy servant may be as well content to be taken as the least, as other be to be greatest, & that I be as well pleased to be in the lowest place, as in the highest, and as glad to be of no reputation in the world for thy sake, as other are to be noble and famous.  
Lord, it is the work of a perfect man, never to sequester his mind from thee, and among many wordelie cares to go without care: not after the manner of an idle or a dissolute person, but by the prerogative of a free mind, alway minding heavenly things, and not by inordinate affection to any creature  
I beseech thee therefore my Lord jesus, keep me from the superfluous cares of this world, that I be not inquieted with bodily necessities, ne that I be not taken with the voluptuous pleasures of the world, ne of the flesh.  
Preserve me from all things, which hinder my soul health, that I be not overthrown with them.  
O Lord God, which art sweetness, unspeakable, turn into bitterness to me, all worldly and fleshly delights, which mought draw me from the love of eternal things, to the love of short, and vile pleasure.  
Let not flesh and blood overcome me, ne yet the world, with his vain glory deceive me, nor the fiend, with his manifold crafts supplant me: But give me ghostly strength in resisting them, patience in suffering them, and co●stauncie in persevering to the end.  
Give me for all worldly delectations, the most sweet consolation of thy holy spirit, and for all fleshly love endue my soul with fervent love of thee.  
Make me strong inwardly in my soul, & cast out thereof all unprofitable cares of this world, that I be not led by unstable desires of earthly things, but that I may repute all things in this world (as they be) transitory, and soon vanishing away and myself also with them, drawing toward mine end.  
For nothing under the Sun may long abide, but all is vanity, and affliction of spirit.  
Give me Lord, therefore heavenly wisdom, that I may learn to seek and find thee, and above all things to love thee.  
Give me grace to withdraw me, from them that flatter me, and patiently to suffer them, that unjustly grieve me.  
Lord when temptation, or tribulation cometh vouchsafe to succour me, that all may turn to my ghostly comfort, and patiently to suffer, and alway to say, thy name be blessed.  
Lord, trouble is now at hand, I am not well, but I am greatly vexed with this present affliction, O most glorious father, what shall I do? Anguish and trouble are on every side, help now I beseech thee in this hour, thou shalt be lauded and praised, when I am perfectly made meek before thee, and when I am clearly delivered by thee.  
May it therefore please thee to deliver me, for what may I most sinful wretch do? Or whether may I go for secure but to thee?  
Give me patience now at this time in all my trouble, help me, Lord God, and I shall not fear ne dread, what troubles soever fall upon me.  
And now what shall I say but that thy will be done in me? I have deserved to be troubled & grieved: and therefore it behoveth, that I suffer as long as it pleaseth thee.  
But would to God that I might suffer gladly, till the furious tempests were over passed, and that quietness of heart might come again.  
Thy mighty hand lord is strong enough to take this trouble from me, and to assuage the cruel assaults thereof, that I be not overcome with them, as thou haste oftentimes done before this time, that when I am clearly delivered by thee, I may with gladness say: the right hand of him that is highest, hath made this change.  
Lord grant me thy singular grace, that I may come thither, where no creature shall let me, ne keep me from the perfect beholding of thee.  
For as long as any transitory thing keepeth me back, or hath rule in me, I may not freely ascend to thee.  
O lord, without thee, nothing may long delight or please: for if any thing should be liking & savoury, it must be through help of thy grace, seasoned with the spice of thy wisdom.  
O everlasting light, far passing all things, send down the beams of thy brightness from above, and purify and lighten the inward parts of my heart.  
Quicken my soul, and all the powers thereof, that it may cleave fast, and be joined to thee in joyful gladness of ghostly ravishynges.  
O when shall that blessed hour come, that thou shalt visit me, and glad me with thy blessed presence, when thou shalt be to me all in all? verily until that time came, there can be no perfect joy in me.  
But alas, mine old man, that is in my carnal affections live still in me, & are not crucified, nor perfectly dead.  
For yet striveth the flesh against the spirit, and moveth great battle inwardly against me, & suffereth not thy kingdom of my soul to live in peace.  
But thou good lord, that haste the Lordship over all, and power of the Sea, to assuage the rage, and surges of the same, arise, and help me, destroy the power of mine enemies, which always make battle against me, show forth the greatness of thy goodness, and let the power of thy right hand be glorified in me. For there is to me none other hope nor refuge, but in thee only my Lord, my God: to thee be honour and glory everlasting.  
O Lord, grant me, that I may wholly resign myself to thee, and in all things to forsake myself, and patiently to bear my cross, and to follow thee.  
O lord, what is man, that thou vouchesaveste to have mind of him: & to visit him.  
Thou art alway one, alway good, alway righteous and holy, justly and blessedly disposing all things after thy wisdom.  
But I am a wretch, and of myself alway ready, and prone to evil, and do never ab●de in one state, but many times do vary and change.  
Nevertheless, it shall be better with me, when it shall please thee: for thou, O lord only art he, that mayest help me, and thou mayest so confirm, and stablish me, that my heart shall not be changed from thee, but be surely fixed, and finally rest, and be quieted in thee.  
I am nothing else of myself but vanity before thee, an unpleasant creature, and a feeble: and therefore, whereof may I rightfully glory? Or why should I look to be magnified?  
Who so pleaseth himself without thee, despiseth thee: and he that delighteth in men's praisings, looseth the true praise before thee.  
The true praise is to be praised of thee: and the true joy is to rejoice in thee.  
Wherefore thy name (O lord) be praised, & not mine.  
Thy works be magnified and not mine, and thy goodness be always lauded and blessed.  
Thou art my glory, and the joy of my heart, in thee shall I glory and rejoice, and not in myself, nor in any wordly honour or dignity, which to thy eternal glory compared, is but a shadow and a very vanity.  
O Lord, we live here in great darkness, and are soon deceived with the vanities of this world, and are soon grieved with a little trouble, yet if I could behold myself well, I should plainly see, that what trouble so ever I have suffered, it hath justly comen upon me, because I have oft sinned, and grievously offended thee.  
To me therefore confusion and despite is due: but to thee laud, honour, and glory.  
Lord send me help in my troubles, for man's help is little worth.  
How often have I been disappoineted, where I thought I should have found friendship? And how often have I found it, where as I least thought?  
Wherefore it is a vain thing to trust in man: for the true trust and health of man is only in thee.  
Blessed be thou lord therefore, in all things that happeneth unto us, for we be weak & unstable, soon deceived▪ and soon changed from one thing to an other.  
O Lord God most righteous judge, strong, and patient, which knowest the frailty, and malice of man, be thou my whole strength and comfort in all necessities: for mine own conscience (Lord) sufficeth not.  
Wherefore, to thy mercy I do appeal, seeing no man may be justified, ne appear righteous in thy sight, if thou examine him after thy justice.  
O blessed mansion of thy heavenly city, O most clearest day of eternity, whom the night may never darken.  
This is the day alway clear and mearie, alway sure, and never changing his state.  
Would too God this day might shortly appear, and shine upon us, and that this worldly fantasies were at an end.  
This day shineth clearly to thy Saints in heaven with everlasting brightness, but to us pilgrims in earth, it shineth obscurely, and as through a mirror or glass.  
The heavenly citizens know how joyous this day is: but we outlaws, the children of Eve, weep and wail the bitter tediousness of our day, that is, of this present life, short and evil, full of sorrow and anguish.  
Where man is oftentimes defiled with sin, encumbered with affliction, inquicted with troubles, & wrapped in cares; busied with vanities, blinded with errors, overchanged with labours, vexed with temptations, overcome with vain delights and pleasures of the world, and grievously tormented with penury and need.  
O, when shall th'end come of all these miseries?  
When shall I be clearly delivered from the bondage of sin.  
When shall I (lord) have only mind on thee, & fully be glad and merry in thee.  
When shall I be free without letting, and be in perfect liberty, without grief of body and soul.  
When shall I have peace without trouble: peace with in and without: and on every side steadfast and sure?  
O Lord jesus, when shall I stand and behold thee: and have full fight and contemplation of thy glory?  
When shalt thou be to me all in all? And when shall I be with thee in thy kingdom that thou haste ordained for thine elect people from the beginning?  
I am left here poor, and as an outlaw, in the laud of mine enemies, where daily be battles, and great misfortunes.  
Comfort mine exile, assuage my sorrow, for all my desire is to be with thee.  
It is come an ●npleasant burden, what pleasure soever the world offereth me hore.  
I desire to have inward fru●sion in thee, but I can not attain thereto.  
I covet to clean fast to heavenvly things, but worldly affections, pluck my mind downward.  
I would subdue all evil affections; but they daily rebel and rife against me, and will not be subject unto my spirit  
Thus I wretched creature fight in myself, and am grievous to myself, while my spirit desireth te be upward and contrary my flesh draweth me downward.  
O, what suffer I inwardly? I go about to mind heavenly things, and strait a great rabble of worldly thoughts rush into my soul.  
Therefore, Lord, be not long away, ne depart not in thy wrath from me.  
Send me the light of thy grace, destroy in me all carnal desires.  
Send forth the hot flames of thy love, to burn and consume the cloudy fantasies of my mind.  
Gather, O Lord, my wits & the powers of my soul together in thee, and make me to despise all worldly things, and by thy grace strongly to resist and overcome all motions & occasions of sin.  
Help me, thou everlasting truth, that no worldly guile nor vanity hereafter, have power to deceive me.  
Come also, thou heavenly sweetness, and let all bitterness of sin flee far from me.  
Pardon me, and forgive me as oft as in my prayer, my mind is not surely fixed on thee.  
For many times I am not there, where I stand, or sit: But rather there, whither my thoughts carry me.  
For there I am, where my thoughts be, and there as customably is my thought, there is that, that I love.  
And that oftentimes cometh into my mind, that by custom pleaseth me best, and that delighteth me most to think upon.  
accordingly as thou dost say in thy Gospel: where as a man's treasure is, there is his heart.  
Wherefore if I love heaven, I speak gladly thereof, and of such things as be of God, and of that, that appertaineth to his honour, & to the glorifying of his holy name.  
And if I love the world, I love to talk of worldly things & I joy anon in worldly felicity, and sorrow and lament soon for worldly adversity.  
If I love the flesh, I imagine oftentimes that, that pleaseth the flesh.  
If I love my soul, I delight much to speak, and to bear of things, that be for my foul health.  
And whatsoever I love, of that I gladly hear, & speak and bear the Images of them still in my mind.  
Blessed is that man, that for the love of the Lord, setteth not by the pleasures of this world, & learneth truly to overcome himself, and with the favour of the spirit, crucifieth his flesh, so that in a clean and a pure conscience, he may offer his prayers to thee, and be accepted to have company of thy blessed Angels, all earthly things excluded from his heart.  
Lord, and holy father, be thou blessed now & ever: for as thou wilt, so is it done, and that thou doest, is alway best.  
Let me thy humble and unworthy servant, joy only in thee, and not in myself, ne in any thing else beside thee.  
For thou Lord, art my gladness, my hope, my crown and all my honour.  
What hath thy servant, but that he hath of thee, and that without his desert?  
All things be thine, thou hast created and made them.  
I am poor, and have been in trouble and pain, ever from my youth, and my soul hath been in great heaviness thorough manifold passions, that come of the world, and of the flesh.  
Wherefore, Lord, I desire that I may have of thee, the joy of inward peace.  
I ask of thee, to come to that rest, which is ordained for thy chosen children, that be used and nourished with the light of heavenly comforts: for without thy help, I ca● not come to thee.  
Lord give me peace, give me inward joy, and then my soul shallbe full of heavenly melody, and be devout, and fervent in thy laudes and praisings.  
But if thou withdraw thyself from me (as thou haste sometime done) then may not thy servant run the way of thy commandments, as I did befor●.  
For it is now with me, as it was, when the Lantern of thy ghostly presence, did shine upon my head, and I was defended under the shadow of thy wings from all perils and dangers.  
O merciful Lord jesus, ever to be praised, the time is come, that thou wilt prove thy servant, and rightful is it, that I shall now suffer somewhat for thee.  
Now is the hour come, that thou hast known from the beginning, that thy servant for a time should outwardly be set at nought, and inwardly to lean to thee.  
And that he should be despised in the fight of the world, and be broken with affliction that he may after arise with thee in a new light, and be clarified, and made glorious in the kingdom of heaven.  
O holy father, thou hast ordained it so to be, and it is done as thou hast commanded.  
This is thy grace (o lord) to thy friend, to suffer him to be troubled in this world for thy love, how often soever it be, and of what person so ever it be, and in what manner so ever thou wilt suffer it to fall unto him: for without thy will or sufferance, what thing is done upon the earth?  
It is good to me (O lord) that thou hast mekened me, that I may thereby learn to know thy righteous judgements, and to put from me all manner of presumption and stateliness of heart.  
It is very profitable for me that confusion hath covered my face, that I may learn thereby rather to seek to thee for help & succour, then to man.  
I have thereby learned to dread thy secret and terrible judgements, which scourgeste the righteous with the sinner, but not without equity and justice.  
Lord, I yield thanks to thee, that thou haste not spared my sins, but haste punished me with scrourges of love, and hast sent me affliction and anguishs within and without.  
No creature under heaven may comfort me, but thou (Lord GOD) the heavenly leech of man's soul, which strikest and healest, which bringest a man nigh unto death, & after restorest him to life again, that he may thereby learn to know his own weakness and imbecility, and the more fully to trust in thee (Lord.)  
Thy discipline is laid upon me, and thy rod of correction hath taught me, and under that rod I wholly submit me.  
Strike my back and my bones, as shall please thee, and make me to bow my crooked will, unto thy will.  
Make me a meek and an humble disciple, as thou hast sometime done with me, that I may walk after thy wil  
To thee I commit myself to be corrected: for better it is to be corrected by thee here, then in time to ●ome.  
Thou knowest all things, and nothing is hid from thee, that is in man's conscience.  
Thou knowest all things to come before they fall, and it is not needful, that any man teach thee, or warn thee of any thing that is done upon the earth.  
Thou knowest what is profitable for me, & how much tribulations helpen to purge away the rust of sin in me.  
Do with me after thy pleasure, I am a sinful wretch, to none so well known as to thee.  
Grant me (lord) that to know, that is necessary to be known: that to love, that is to be loved: that to desire, that pleaseth thee: that to regard, that is precious in thy sight: and that to refuse, that is vile before thee.  
Suffer me not to judge thy mysteries after my outward senses, ne to give sentence after the hearing of the ignorant, but by true judgement to discern things spiritual: and above all things, alway to search, and follow thy will and pleasure.  
O Lord jesus, thou art all my richesses, & all that I have I have it of thee.  
But what am I (lord) that I dare speak to thee? I am thy poor creature, & a worm most abject.  
Behold Lord, I have nought, and of myself I am nought worth, thou art only God, righteous and holy, thou ordereste all things, thou givest all things, and thou fulfilleste all things with goodness.  
I am a sinner, barren and void of godly bertue.  
Remember thy mercies, and fill my heart with plenty of thy grace, for thou wilt not that thy works in me, should be in vain.  
How may I bear the misery of this life, except thy grace & mercy do comfort me?  
Turn not thy face from me, defer not the visiting of me, ne withdraw not thy comforts, least happily my soul be made as dry earth without the water of grace.  
Teach me lore to fulfil thy will, to live meekly, and worthily before thee, for thou art all my wisdom and cunning, thou art he that knowest me as I am, that knowest me before the world was made, and before I was borne, or brought into this life to thee (O Lord) be honour, glory, and praise for ever and ever. Amen.  
Laus deo in aeternum. Amen.   

¶ A devout prayer to be said daily.  
O Almighty and eternal God, which vouchsavest that we as it were heavenly children, should every one of us call thee our heavenly father: Grant that among us be pureness, and example of innocent life, thy most holy name may be sanctified, that all other nations, beholding our goodness and virtuous deeds, that thou workest in us, may be stirred to hallow, and glorify thee.  
Grant (O lord) that the kingdom of thy grare and mercy, may reign continually in our hearts, so that we may he worthy to be partakers of the realm of glory and majesty.  
Grant that unto the very death, we refuse not to follow thy divine will, & that we, according to the example of the celestial citizens, agreeing together quietly united in spirit, all controversy in opinions laid apart, the lusts of the flesh being subdued, and the flattering assaults of the world and the Devil overcome, never wrestle against thy most holy will, but obey it in all things. Grant (O Lord) for our body needful sustenance, that we may the more freely serve thee. Give us, we beseech thee (O merciful father) that heavenly bread, the body of thy son jesus Christ, the very food & health of our souls: give us the bread of thy divine precepts, that we may truly walk, and live after them.  
Give us the bread of the heavenly word, which is thy strong buttress, and sure defence of our souls, that we being well fed, and filled with this food, may worthily come to the celestial feast where as is no hunger. Grant (O lord) that we patiently bear, & suffer our enemies, and such as hurt us, and willingly to forgive the offences committed against us, that so we may find thee lord in forgiving us our trespasses, mild and merciful.  
Grant O lord, that we be not utterly led into temptation, that thereby we should be lost: but in all perils of temptation, and in the mids of the stormy tempests and tribulations, let us thy children, perceive and feel thy fatherly succour, ready to help us, lest that we (overcome with the naughty crafts, and deceipts of the tempter) should be drawn into everlasting destruction: but when we be well assayed approved, and purged with the fire of temptation, then let us finish our course, and so well and valiantly fight, that we may for evermore, live with thee in that heavenly city, where & against thee, which no manner temptation can prevail. Finally, grant most merciful father, that we, through thy benign goodness, may be delivered from all evils present, and to come, both of body and soul, and that at the last, the yoke of the foul fiend being shaken of, we may possess the heritage of the heavenly Kingdom, which thy son, with his precious blood bought for us thy children: and there for ever to have the fruition of celestial delectations, accompanied with Angels, & blessed saints, through the help benignity, and grace of our saviour jesus Christ, to whom, and to thee our father, and to the holy ghost, be glory and honour, now and ever. Amen.   

¶ An other prayer.  
O Heavenly father, God almighty, I pray and beseech thy mercy, benignly so behold me thy unworthy servant, that I may by gift of thy holy spirit, fervently desire thy kingdom, that I may know thy will, and work thereafter. Give me O lord, wisdom. Make me constant, patient, and strong in thee. Keep me lord, from the slighty invasion of the old wily serpent. Defend me from the counsels, and cursings of evil tongues: let thy mighty arm be my shield against all the malignity of this wicked world. Remember not (O Lord) mine offences: instruct, prepare me to repent, to be sorry for my sins.  
Make me to love justice, and hate wrong, to do good and abstain from all evils: that I may be worthy to be called thy child.  
To thee be honour and glory, for ever and ever. Amen.   

¶ A devout prayer.  
Lord, hearken to my words, consider the thought of mine heart. Behold, hold loud I cry unto thee? Let my just prayer enter into thine ears, which unfeignedly cometh fro mine heart. Hear me Lord: for I am poor, and destitute of man's help. Take care for my soul: save me thy servant which wholly trust in thee, have mercy upon me (o lord) for I will never cease crying to thee for help. For thou art mild, and more merciful than any tongue can express, as often as adversity assaileth me, I will cry and call for help unto thee: I will call upon thee in the day time: and in the night my cry shall not be hid from thee, O thou God of the heavens, & maker of the waters, and lord of all creatures, hear me a poor sinner calling upon thee, & putting my whole trust in thy mercy. Have mercy upon me for thy manifold mercy's sake forgive me all mine offences. Amen.   

¶ The Litany.  
O God the father of heaven, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.  
O God the father of heaven. etc.  
O God the son redeemer of the world, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.  
O God the son redeemer. etc.  
O God the holy ghost, proceeding from the father and the son, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.  
O God the holy ghost, etc.  
O holy, blessed, and glorious trinity, three persons and one God, have mercy upon us miserable sinners.  
O holy, blessed, and glori. etc.  
Remember not Lord our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers, neither take thou vengeance of our sins, spare us good lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever.  
Spare us good Lord.  
From all evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts and assaults of the Devil, from thy wrath, and from everlasting damnation.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
From blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred, and malice, & all uncharitableness.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
From fornication, and all other deadly sin: and from all the deceipts of the world the flesh, and the devil.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
From lightnings and tempests, from plague, pestilence and famine, from battle and murder, & from sudden death.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
From all sedition, and privy conspiracy, from all false doctrine, and heresy, from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy word, and commandment.  
G●od Lord deliver us.  
By the mystery of thy holy incarnation, by thy holy nativity and Circumcision, by thy Baptism, Fasting, and temptation.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
By thine agony, and bloody sweat, by thy cross, and passion, by thy precious death, and burial, by thy glorious resurrection, and ascension, and by the coming of the holy ghost.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
In all time of our tribulation, in all time of our wealth in the hour of death, and in day of judgement.  
Good Lord deliver us.  
We sinners do beseech thee to hear us (O Lord God) and that it may please thee to rule and govern thy holy Church universally in the right way.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to keep and strength in the true worshipping of thee, in righteousness, and holiness of life, thy servant Elizabeth our most gracious Queen and governor.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to rule her heart in thy faith, fear and love, and that she may always have affiance in thee, and ever seek thy honour and glory.  
We beseech thee to hear us etc.  
That it may please thee to be her defender, and keeper, giving her the victory over all her enemies.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to illuminate all Bishooppes, Pastors, and Ministers of the church, with true knowledge, and understanding of thy word, and that both by their preaching and living, they may set it forth, and show it accordingly.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to endue the lords of the counsel, & all the nobility, with grace, wisdom, and understanding.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to bless and keep the Magistrates, giving them grace to execute justice, & to maintain truche.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to bless, & keep all thy people.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to give all nations, unity, peace and concord.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to give us an heart, to love and dread thee, and diligently to live after thy commandments.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to give all thy people increase of grace, to hear meekly thy word, and to receive it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruits of the spirit.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to bring into the way of truth, all such as have erred, and be deceived.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to strengthen such as do stand, and to comfort, and help the weak hearted, and to raise up them that fall, and finally to beat down Satan under our feet.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to secure, help, and comfort all that be in danger, necessity, and tribulation.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to preserve all that travail by land, or by water, all women labouring of child, all sick persons, and young children, and to show thy pity upon all prisoners and captives.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to defend, and provide for the fatherless children, and widows, and all that be desolate and oppressed.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
That it may please thee, to have mercy upon all men.  
We beseech thee to hear us etc.  
That it may please thee, to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts.  
We beseech thee to hear us, etc.  
That it may please thee, to give and preserve to our use, the kyndelie fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them.  
We beseech thee to hear us etc.  
That it may please thee, to give us true repentance, to forgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances: & to endue us with the grace of thy holy spirit, to amend our lives, according to thy holy word.  
We beseech thee to hear us. etc.  
Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us.  
Son of God: we beseech thee to hear us.  
O lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world.  
Grant us thy peace.  
O lamb of God: that takest away the sins of the world.  
Have mercy upon us.  
O Christ hear us.  
O Christ hear us.  
Lord have mercy upon us.  
Lord have mercy upon us.  
Christ have mercy upon us.  
Christ have mercy upon us.  
Lord have mercy upon us.  
Lord have mercy upon us.  
Our father which art in. etc.  
And lead us not into temptation.  
But deliver us from evil. Amen.  
The versicle.  
O Lord, deal not with us after our sins.  
The answer.  
Neither reward us after our iniquities.   

Let us pray,  
O God merciful Father, that despisest not the sighing of a contrite heart, nor the desire of such as be sorrowful mercifully assist our prayers that we make before thee, in all our troubles, and adversities, when soever they oppress us, & graciously hear us, that those evils, which the craft and subtlety of the devil, or man worketh against us, be brought to nought, & by the providence of thy goodness, they may be dispersed, that we thy servants being hurt by no persecutions, may evermore give thanks unto thee in thy holy Church, through jesus Christ our Lord.  
O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thy name's sake.  
O God, we have heard with our ears, & our fathers have declared unto us the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old time before them.  
O Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thine honour.  
Glory be to the father, and to the son, & to the holy ghost As it was in the beginning, is now, & ever shallbe, world without end. Amen.  
From our enemies defend us, O Christ.  
Graciously look upon our affliction▪  
Pitifully behold the sorrows of our hearts.  
Mercifully forgive the sins of thy people.  
Favourably with mercy, hear our prayers,  
O son of David, have mercy upon us.  
Both now and ever vouchsafe to hear us, O Christ.  
Graciously hear us, O Christ.  
Graciously hear us, O Lord christ  
The versicle.  
O Lord, let thy mercy be showed upon us.  
The answer.  
As we do put our trust in thee.   

Let us pray.  
WE humbly beseech thee O father, mercifully to look upon our infirmities, and for the glory of thy names sake, turn from us all those evils that we most righteously have deserved: & grant that in all our troubles, we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and evermore serve thee in holiness, & pureness of living, to thy honour and glory, through our only mediator and advocate jesus Christ our lord. Amen.   

¶ A prayer for the Queen's Majesty.  
O Lord our heavenly father, high and mighty king of kings, lord of lords, the only ruler of princes, which doest from thy throne, behold all the dwellers upon the earth, most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favour to behold our most gracious Sovereign Lady queen Elizabeth, and so replenish her with the grace of thy holy spirit, that she may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: endue her plentifully with heavenly gifts: grant her in health and wealth long to live, strength her that she may vanquish & overcome all her enemies. And finally after this life, she may attain overlasting joy and felicity: through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  
Almighty and everlasting GOD, which only workest great marvels, send down upon our Bishappes and Curates, and all congregations committed to their charge, the healthful spirit of thy grace, and that they may truly please thee. Pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing, grant this, O Lord for the honour of our advocate and mediator jesus Christ. Amen.   

A prayer of chrysostom,  
Almighty God, which hast given us grace at this time with one accord, to make our common supplications unto thee, and dost pramise, that when two or three be gathered together in thy name; thou wilt grant their requests, fulfil now, O Lord, the desires, and petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them, granting us in this world, knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come, life everlasting, Amen.  two Corinth. xiii. 
THe grace of our lord jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the holy ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen.   

¶ In the time of any common plague or sickness.  
O Almighty God, which in thy wrath, in the time of king David, didst slay with the plague of Pestilence, three score and ten thousand, and yet remembering thy mercy, didst save the rest: have pity upon us miserable sinners, that now are visited with great sickness, and mortality, that like as thou didst then command thine Angel too cease from punishing: So it may please thee too withdraw from us this plague, and grievous sickness: Through jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.  
O GOD, whose nature and property is ever to have mercy, and to forgive, receive our humble petitions, and though we be tied, and bound with the chain of our sins: yet let the pitifulness of thy great mercy loose us, for the honour of jesus Christ's sake our mediator and advocate. Amen.  
FINIS.