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

The 2. Eueuing praier.

O Moste mightie and wise God, powr in∣to me aboundantlie the oile of thy grace vnfetter my stammering toong, that I may vtter, and vnrippe the strings of my blind & want hart, that I may sufficrentlie conceiue the infinitenes of thy fauour vnto me. But what shoulde I saie of thine infinite goodnesse, which thou haste shewed vppon mee? where shall I beginne, or where shall I ende to discourse of thy mercie? I was nothing, and what did mooue thee to make ••••e a manne endued with reason and whie not a tree, a frog, a beast?

I am brought to a nonplus, O Lorde what shall I saie? I did disgrace thy goodnes, and doo deface by my dailie sinnes the image of innocencie, so that I was not onely borne wrapped in damnable estate, but also daily incur the danger of dam nation: and yet doost thou vn∣derprop mee in the promised seede, in that blessed seede of Abraham, euen thine own and one only beloued sonne Iesus Christ, by whom thou hast re∣deemed mee. My bodie and soule were maruelously eclip∣sed for want of grace, and are dailie filthied in the puddle of iniquitie, the reward whereof was death. But what mooued thee I being a cast a way, euen

thine vtter enimie to wash and bathe me in the streame of thy sonnes pretious bloud? I can∣not tell good Lorde, it was thy mercy: to thee therefore bee the glorie both now and euer, Amen.