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A Prayer to be delivered from false tongues, and cohabitation with wicked persons.
WHen I was in trouble, I called upon the Lord: and he heard me.
2 Deliver my soule, O Lord, from lying lips: and from a deceitfull tongue.
3 What reward shall be given or done unto
thee, thou false tongue: even mighty and sharpe arrowes, with hot burning coales.
4 Wo is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Mesech: and to have mine habitation among the tents of Cedar.
5 My soule hath long dwelt among them: that be enemies unto peace.
6 I labour for peace, but when I speak unto them thereof: they make them ready to battell.
O Lord God, who hearest the prayers of them that call upon thee in their calamities and di∣stresses, have mercy upon us thy servants, who live in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, whereof we our selves make too great a part; we beseech thee so to order the circumstances and opportunities of our life, that we may live in the society of holy people, whose example and con∣versation may be a continuall incentive to the wayes of peace and righteousnesse; and deliver us from a necessity of conversing with turbulent spirits, angry, and unpeacefull dispositions, who upon all occasions make themselves ready to bat∣tell. Sanctifie our hearts and lips with a burning coale from thy altar, that our words may be holy and profitable, and keep us from all slander and
scandall, and the rewards of both, the sharpe ar∣rowes of thy vengeance, the hot burning coales of thy wrath. Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake, our Lord and onely Saviour. Amen.