The psalter of David with titles and collects according to the matter of each Psalme : whereunto is added Devotions for the help and assistance of all Christian people, in all occasions and necessities.

Morning Prayer.

PSALME 71.

A Prayer for the continuance of Gods favours to us, even to our old age, and a longing for a hap∣py departure.

IN thee, O Lord, have I put my trust, let me never be put to confusion: but rid me and deliver me in thy righ∣teousnesse, encline thine ear unto me, and save me.

2 Be thou my strong hold, where∣unto I may alway resort: thou hast promised to help me, for thou art my house of defence, and my castle.

3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the un∣godly: out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruell man.

4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing ••hat I long for: thou art my hope even from my youth.

5 Through thee have I been holden up ev••r since I

was born: thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb, my praise shall be alway of thee.

6 I am become as it were a monster unto many: but my sure trust is in thee.

7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praise: (that I may sing of thy glory) and honour all the day long.

8 Cast me not away in the time of age: forsake mee not when my strength faileth me.

9 For mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my soul, take their counsell together, saying: God hath forsaken him, persecute him, and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

10 Goe not f••rre from me, O God: my God haste thee to help me.

11 Let them be confounded and perish, that are against my soul: let them be covered with shame and dishonour, that seek to do me evill.

12 As for me, I will patiently abide alway: and will praise thee more ••nd more.

13 My mouth shall daily speak of thy righteousnesse and salvation: for I know no end thereof.

14 I will goe forth in th•• strength of the Lord God: and will make mention of thy righteousnesse onely.

15 Thou, O God, hast taught me from my youth up untill now: therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

16 Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am gray-headed: untill I have shewn thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.

17 Thy righteousnesse, O God, is very high: and great things are they that thou hast done, O God, who is like unto thee?

18 O what great troubles and adversities hast thou shewed me, and yet didst thou turn and refresh mee: yea, and broughtest mee from the deep of the earth again!

19 Thou hast brought me to great honour: and com∣forted me on every side.

20 Therefore will I praise thee and thy faithfulnesse (O God) playing upon an instrument of musick: unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou holy one of Israel.

21 My lips will be fain when I sing unto thee: and so will my soule whom thou hast delivered.

22 My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousnesse all the day long: for they are confounded and brought unto shame that seek to do me evill.

The Prayer.

O Lord God our house of defence and our Castle, who by thy mercies and thy loving Spirit, hast taught us and led us in thy ways, from our first years until now, thou hast brought us to great honour, even the honour of being Christians, the honour of adoption to be thy Children, and heirs of thy glorious promises, coheirs with thy Son Jesus Christ, and hast comforted us on every side, with a continuall stream of thy mercies and refreshments: give us thy grace that we may love thee, and long for thee above all the things of this World: and as thou hast holden us up ever since we were born, so let thy mercy go along with us all our days. Cast us not away in the time of age, and give us grace that we may never cast thee or thy Laws from us. Let not thy grace, and the ghostly strength we derive from thee, forsake us when our naturall strength fails us, but let our spirit grow upon the disadvantages

of the flesh, and begin to receive the happiness of eternity, by an absolute conquest over the weakned and decaying body; that after we have by thy aid passed through the great trou∣bles and adversities thou shewest unto all thy Children in this world, we may lie down in righteousnesse and with thy favour: that when thou bringest us out from the deep of the earth again, we may have a joyfull resurrection to the society of Saints and Angels, and the full fruition of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen.

PSALME 72.

A Prayer for the exaltation and propagation of Christs Kingdome.

GIve the King thy judgements (O God:) and thy righteousnesse unto the Kings son.

2 Then shall he judge the people according unto right: and defend the poor.

3 The mountains also shall bring peace: and the little hils righteousnesse unto the people.

4 He shall keep the simple folk by their right: defend ••he children of the poor, and punish the wrong doer.

5 They shall fear thee as long as the sunne and moon endureth, from one generation to another.

6 He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wooll: even as the drops that water the earth.

7 In his time shall the righteous flourish: yea, and abun∣dance of peace, so long as the moon endureth.

8 His dominion shall be also from the one sea to the other: and from the floud unto the worlds end.

9 They that dwell in the wildernesse shall kneel be∣fore

him: his enemies shall lick the dust.

10 The kings of Tharsis and of the Isles shall give presents: the kings of Arabia and Saba shall bring gifts.

11 All kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall doe him service.

12 For he shall deliver the poor when he crieth: the needy also, and him that hath no helper.

13 He shall be favourable to the simple and needy: and ••hall preserve the souls of the poor.

14 Hee shall deliver their soules from falshood and wrong: and dear shall their bloud be in his sight.

15 He shall live, and unto him shall be given of the gold of Arabia: prayer shall be made ever unto him, and daily shall he be praised.

16 There shall be an heap of corn in the earth high up∣on the hils: his fruit shall shake like Libanus, and shall be green in the city, like grasse upon the earth.

17 His name shall endure for ever, his name shall re∣main under the sun among the posterities: which shall be blessed through him, and all the heathen shall prais•• him.

18 Blessed be the Lord God, even the God of Israel: which onely doth wondrous things.

19 And blessed be the name of his majesty for ever: and all the earth shall be filled with his majesty. Amen, Amen.

The Prayer.

O Blessed Jesu, who didst descend from hea∣ven into the womb of the blessed Virgin, like rain into a fleece of wooll, thou that pu∣nishest the wrong doer, and defendest the chil∣dren of the poor, and them that have no hel∣per; have mercy upon thy Holy Church, be pleased by her ministery to extend thy bles∣sings

and thy dominion from the one Sea to the other, even unto the worlds end, that all Kings of the earth may fall down before thee, and all Nations may do thee service. Make thy righteous people to flourish, and so subdue their enemies under them, delivering them from falshood and wrong, that they may be blessed with abundance of Peace, and be satis∣fied with thy righteousnesse and salvation through thy mercies, O blessed Saviour and Redeemer Jesu. Amen.