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 Prayer vnto the holy ghost, to be song before the Sermon.

COme holy sprite, the god of might, Comforter of vs all: Teach vs to knowe thy word a right * 1.1 that we doo neuer fall. O holy Ghost, visit our coast, defend vs with thy shild: Against all sinne and wickednes, Lorde helpe vs win the field.

Lorde kepe our Quene and her counsell, and geue them will and might: To perseuer in thy Gospell, which can put sinne to flyght. O Lorde that geuest thy holy worde, send preachers plenteouslye: That in the same we may accorde, and therin lyue and dye.

O holy Sprite, direct a ryght, the Preachers of thy worde: Thot thou by them maist cut downe syn, As it were with a sworde. Depart not from those pastors pure, but ayde them at all nede: Whiche breake to vs, the breade of lyfe, wheron our soules doo feede.

O blessed spirit of truthe, kepe vs, In peace and vnitie: Kepe vs from sectes and errours all, And from all papistrie. Conuert all those, that are oure foes, and bryng them to thy lyght: That they and we, may well agree, and prayse thee day and nyght.

O Lorde increase our fayth in vs, and loue so to abounde: That man and wyfe, be voyde of strife, and neyghbours about vs rounde. In oure tyme geue thy peace, O Lorde, to nations farre and nye: And teache them all thy holy worde, that we may syng to thee.

All glory to the Trinitie, that is of mightes most: The lyuing Father and the Sonne, and eke the holy Ghost. As it hath bene in all the time, that hathe been here to fore:

As it is now and so shalbe. henceforth for euermore.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Sing thys as the. cxix. Psal.