Davids sling against great Goliah conteining diuers notable treatises, the [n]ames whereof follow next after the epistle to the reader / by E.H.

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Davids sling against great Goliah conteining diuers notable treatises, the [n]ames whereof follow next after the epistle to the reader / by E.H.
Author
Hutchins, Edward, 1558?-1629.
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[London] :: Printed by R. [Y]ardley and Peter Short,
[1593]
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Prayers.
Christian life.
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The 3. Morning praisr.

QWretch that I am who shall deliuer mee from this bo∣dy of sin? oh what shall I doe? shall I saye with Caine that mine iniquities are greater than can be remitted? shall the mist of mine iniqui∣ties choake me? shall the sur∣ging waues of mounting sinne drowne me? or shal I sinke in the pit of desperation? noe: I wil not. For the sunne of mer∣cie can disperse the thick myst and great cloude of mine ini∣quitie: the parching beame of thy sunne O Lord, is not onlie able to calme, but also to drie vp the angrie floud of sinne:

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and so to dash the ship of Sa∣tan that diuelish pirat against the sands. So that no storme of the Diuel shal ouerturne mee, no raging blaste of sinne shall dismaie me, no thundercracke of biting conscience shal sinke the little barke of my weake faith, which is grounded vpon a rocke, and ouercommeth the world. Indeed if I were left to my selfe, then were there noe waie but sinkinge and ship∣wracke: but thanks be to thee O gratious god for it, thou hast not left me to my self to wade in the Gulfe of desperation: but thou hast spred foorth the beames of thy mercie, and by the heate of thy charitie dryed the gulfe, and kept mee from

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danger: to thee therefore bee al glorie, Amen.

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