The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.

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Title: The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.
Publication: Oxford :: Printed by Leonard Lichfield ...,; 1644.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Paraphrases, English.; Psalters.
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PSALME 141.

A Prayer for the virtue of religion, for holynesse of life, and for deliverance for the snares of our enemies.

LOrd, I call upon thee, hast thee unto me: and consider my voyce, when I cry unto thee.

2 Let my prayer be set forth in thy sight, as the incense: and let the lifting up of my hands be an evening sacrifice.

3 Set a watch (O Lord) before my mouth: and keep the doore of my lips.

4 O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing: let me not be occupied in ungodly works, with the men that work wickednesse, least I eat of such things as please them.

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5 Let the righteous rather smite me friendly▪ and reprove me.

6 But let not their precious balms break mine head: yea, I will pray yet against their wick∣ednesse.

7 Let their iudges be overthrown in stony places: that they may hear my words, for they are sweet.

8 Our bones lie scattered before the pit: like as when one breaketh and heweth wood upon the earth.

9 But mine eyes look unto thee, O Lord God: in thee is my trust, O cast not out my soul.

10 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me: and from the traps of the wicked doers.

11 Let the ungodly fall into their own nets to∣gether: and let me ever escape them.

The Prayer.

O Lord, our trust and confidence, hast thee un∣to us, and consider our voyce when we call upon thee in our trouble and necessity; let our pra∣yers ascend up unto thee as incense, and ••e as the savour of the evening and the morning sacrifice. We begge of thee nothing but grace and power to fulfill thy will; let not our hearts be inclined

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to any evill: set a watch, O Lord, before our mouth and keep the doore of our lips, let us not be busied in ungodly workes, that we may never offend in our thoughts, or words, or actions: and when we do amisse, do thou smite us friendly and reprove us with the checks of a tender conscience, that thy fatherly correction may like precious balme cure all the wounds made by our own infirmities; that we escaping all the snares of wickednesse, may for ever heare and obey thy sweet words, and our soules may never be cast out of thy pre∣sence, but for ever may rejoyce in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.