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.

PSALME 124.

A thanksgiving for our deliverance from the power of all our enemies, and a confessing God to be the Author of it.

IF the Lord himself had not been on our side (now may Israel say:) if the Lord himself had not been on our side when men rose up against us.

2 They had swallowed us up quick: when they were so wrathfully displeased at us.

3 Yea, the waters had drowned us: and the stream had gone over our soul.

4 The deep waters of the proud: had gone even over our soul.

5 But praised ••e the Lord: which hath not given us over for a prey unto their teeth.

6 Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered.

7 Our help standeth in the Name of the Lord: which hath made heaven and earth.

The Prayer.

O Lord God, which hast made Heaven and Earth, in whose Name our help standeth, we praise and blesse thy Name, that in our troubles and temptations thou hast stood on our side, and pleaded for us against them that rose against us. It was thy hand (O Lord) and the help of thy mercy that relieved us: the waters of affliction had drowned us, and the stream had gone over our soul, if the Spirit of the Lord had not moved upon the waters: Thou (O Lord) didst blast the designs of our

enemies with the breath of thy displeasure, and to thee (O Lord) we ascribe the praise and honour of our redemption. Perpetuate thy mercies to us, let us never be given over as a prey to our ghostly enemies, but break their snares, discover and weaken all their tempta∣tions by which they would destroy our souls, that we being delivered from sin, may be pre∣served from thy wrath, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.