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

PSALME 56.

A Prayer that we may trust in God, and have such carefulnesse over our wayes, that we give our Enemies no advantage.

MORNING PRAYER.

BE mercifull unto me, O God, for man goeth about to devoure me: he is daily fighting and troubling me.

2 Mine enemies are daily in hand to swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most Highest.

3 Neverthelesse, though I am sometime afraid: yet put I my trust in thee.

4 I will praise God because of his word: I have put my trust in God, and will not fear what flesh can doe unto me.

5 They daily mistake my words: all that they imagine is to doe me evill.

6 They hold all together, and keep them∣selves close: and mark my steps when they lay wait for my soul.

7 Shall they escape for their wickednesse: thou (O God) in thy displeasure shalt cast them downe.

8 Thou tellest my flittings, put my teares into thy bottle: are not these things noted in thy book?

9 Whensoever I call upon thee, then shall mine enemies be put to flight: this I know, for God is on my side.

10 In Gods word will I reioyce: in the Lords word will I comfort me.

11 Yea, in God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can doe unto me.

12 Unto thee (O God) will I pay my vows: unto thee will I giue thanks.

13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling: that I may walk before God in the light of the living.

The Prayer.

O Lord God, in whom we have trusted, have mercy upon us, who are daily troubled with sadnesses in the world, temptations of the Devill,

weakenesses of the flesh, malitious surmisings and mistakings of our Enemies, and whatsoever may make us miserable, and disturbe our peace: give us great assistances of thy grace, that we may walk without scandall, resist and overcome the Divell, despise the things of this world, and be strengthened in our spirits with ghostly confi∣dence, that whensoever we call upon thee, we may have thee on our side, and our enemies be put to flight; that our soules being delivered from death, and our feet from falling, we may at last be admitted into the light of the living, there to walke eternally before thee our God, who livest and reignest in the Vnity of the blessed Trinity, world without end. Amen.