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A Prayer for deliverance from death and damnation.
VNto thee will I cry, O Lord my strength: think no scorn of me, lest if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit.
2 Heare the voice of my humble petitions
when I cry unto thee: when I hold up my hands toward the mercy-seat of thy holy temple.
3 O pluck me not away (neither destroy me) with the ungodly and wicked doers: which speak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts.
4 Reward them according to their deeds: and according to the wickednesse of their owne inventions.
5 Recompense them afte the work of their hands: pay them that they have deserved.
6 For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands: therefore shall be break them down, and no•• build them up.
7 Praised be the Lord: for he hath heard the voice of my humble petitions.
8 The Lord is my strength and my shield, my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart danceth for ioy, and in my song will I praise him.
9 The Lord is my strength: and he is the wholesome defence of his anointed.
10 O save thy people, and give thy blessing unto thine inheritance: feed them, and set them up for ever.
O Lord my strength and confidence, my shield and the defence of all that hope in thee, heare the voyce of our humble petitions: We hold up our hands to thy mercy seat, praying thee for pitty, and pardon of our sinnes: reward us not according to our deeds, nor according to the wickednesse of our inventions; for if thou shoul∣dest deale with us according to the operation of our hands, we should be like them that go down into the pit, and our inheritance would be death and destruction. But our heart hath trusted in thee and thou hast helped us; continue thy loving kindnesse to us, and pluck us not away, neither destroy us with the ungodly and wicked doers, but magnifie thy mercies in the salvation of our soules, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.