The whole booke of Psalmes collected into Englysh metre by T. Starnhold, I. Hopkins, & others, conferred with the Ebrue, with apt notes to synge the[m] with al ; faithfully perused and alowed according to thordre appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions ; very mete to be vsed of all sortes of people priuately for their solace & comfort, laying apart all vngodly songes and ballades, which tende only to the norishing of vyce, and corrupting of youth.

¶ A confession of all estates. and tymes.

O Eternall God and most mercifull father we confesse, and acknowledg, heare before thy diuine maiestie, that we are miserable syn∣ners, conceyued and borne in sinne and iniquitye, so that in vs there is no goodnes. For the flesh e∣uermore rebelleth agaynst the spirite, wherby we continually transgres thy holy precepts, and com¦maundemēts, & so purchase to our selues, through thy iust iudgement, deathe and damnation. Not∣withstanding (O heauenly father) for asmuche as we are displeased with oure selues for the synnes that we haue committed against thee, and do vn∣feynedly repent vs of the same: we most humblye

beseche thee, for Iesus Christes sake, to shewthy mercy on vs, to forgeue vs al our sinnes, and to in¦crease our holy spirite in vs: that we acknowledg∣yng, from the botome of our hartes, our owne vn∣righteousnes, may from henceforth not only mor∣tifie our sinful lusts and affections, but also bring forth such frutes, as may be agreable to thy moste blessed will, not for the worthines thereof, but for the merites of thy dearelye beloued sonne Iesus Christ our only Sauior, whom thou hast already geuen an oblation, and offering for oure sinnes: & for whose sake, we are certenlye perswaded, that thou wilte denie vs nothing, that we shall aske in his name, according to thy will. For thy spirit doth assure our consciences, that thou art our mercifull father, and so louest vs thy children through hym, that nothing is able to remoue thy heauēly grace and fauoure from vs: to thee therfore (O father) with the sonne and the holy Ghoste be all honor & glory, worlde without ende. Sobeit.