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A Prayer that we may lead a Holy life, and find mercy in the day of judgement.
THe Lord, even the most mighty God hath spoken: and called the world, from the rising up of the sunne, unto the going down thereof.
2 Out of Sion hath God appea∣red: in perfect beauty.
3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep si∣lence: there shall goe before him a consuming fire,
and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.
4 He shall call the heaven from above: and the earth, that he may iudge his people.
5 Gather my Saints together unto me: those that haue made a covenant with me, with sacrifice.
6 And the heavens shall declare his righte∣ousnesse: for God is iudge himselfe.
7 Heare, O my people, and I will speak: I myself will testifie against thee, O Israel, for I am God, even thy God.
8 I will not reprove thee because of thy sa∣crifices, or for thy burnt-offerings: because they were not alway before me.
9 I will take no bullock out of thine house: nor he-goats out of thy folds.
10 For all the beasts of the forrest are mine: and so are the cattells upon a thousand hills.
11 I know all the fowles upon the moun∣tains: and the wilde beasts of the field are in my sight.
12 If I be hungry I will not tell thee: for the whole world is mine, and all that is therein.
13 Thinkest thou that I will eat bulls flesh: and drink the bloud of goats?
14 Offer unto God thanksgiving: and pay thy vows unto the most Highest.
15 And call upon me in the time of trouble: so will I heare thee, and thou shalt praise me.
16 But unto the ungodly said God: Why dost thou preach my Laws, and takest my Cove∣nant in thy mouth?
17 Whereas thou hatest to be reformed: and hast cast my words behind thee.
18 When thou sawest a Thiefe, thou con∣sentedst unto him: and hast been partaker with the Adulterers.
19 Thou hast let thy mouth speak wicked∣nesse: and with thy tongue thou hast set forth deceit.
20 Thou satest and spakest against thy bro∣ther: yea, and hast s••andered thine owne mo∣thers sonne.
21 These things hast thou done, and I held my tongue, and thou thoughtest wickedly, that I am even such a one, as thy selfe: but I will re∣prove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done.
22 O consider this, ye that forget God: lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you.
23 Whoso offereth me thanks and praise, he honoureth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation right, will I shew the salvation of God.
O Most mighty God, who art more pleased with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and the oblation of our soules in the vowes of obedience and a holy life, then with the burnt offerings and sacrifices of Bullocks and Goates: let thy grace reforme our lives and manners: keep our mouth from slander and obloquy, from guile and deceit: let us never consent to actions of injustice or un∣cleanesse, that we partake not with Thieves or with Adulterers, either in their sinne or punish∣ment, that when thou shalt appeare in perfect beauty with a consuming fire before thee, and a tempest round about thee, with terrors and glo∣rious Majesty, calling the heavens and the earth together, that thou mayest judge all thy people, thou mayest gather us among thy Saints, and give us the mercies and the portion of thine inheri∣tance, that so we may honour thee by an eter∣nall oblation of praise and thanksgiving in the Heavens, where thou, O God, declarest thy sal∣vation to all thy elect people, through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen.