PSALME 13. (Book 13)
A Prayer in time of temptation.
HOw long wilt thou forget me (O Lord) for ever: how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.
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- The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm.
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- Oxford :: Printed by Leonard Lichfield ...,
- 1644.
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"The Psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each psalm." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A27790.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 12, 2024.
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2 How long shall I seek counsell in my soul, & be so vexed in my heart: how long shall mine enemies triumph over me?
3 Consider and heare me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death.
4 Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed a∣gainst him: for if I be cast down, they that trou∣ble me will reioyce at it.
But my trust is in thy mercy: and my heart is ioyfull in thy salvation.
I will sing of the Lord, because he hath dealt so lovingly with me: yea, I will praise the name of the Lord most Highest.
The Prayer.
O God the giver of all grace, the author of all Ghostly strength, look with compassion up∣on our infirmities, and how unequally we are as∣saulted by many, by powerfull, by malicious ad∣versaries. How long, O Lord, how long shall we seek for rest and finde none? O give us either peace or victory, and preserve us that we sleep not in the death of sinne, least our grād enemy the Divell, say, he hath prevailed against us. Our trust is in thy mercy, and thy delight is in it; strengthen us so with thy grace that we may fight a good fight, and conquer, and be crown'd with a crown of righteousnesse, which we begge we may re∣ceive