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 120.

A Prayer to be delivered from false tongues, and cohabitation with wicked persons.

WHen I was in trouble, I called upon the Lord: and he heard me.

2 Deliver my soul, O Lord, from ly∣ing lips: and from a deceitfull tongue.

3 What reward shall be given or done unto thee, thou false tongue: even mighty and sharp arrows, with hot burning coals.

4 Wo is me, that I am constrained to dwell with Me∣sech: and to have my habitation among the tents of Cedar.

5 My soul hath long dwelt among them: that be ene∣mies unto peace.

6 I labour for peace, but when I speak unto them thereof: they make them ready to battell.

The Prayer.

O Lord God, who hearest the prayers of them that call upon thee in their cala∣mities and distresses, have mercy upon us thy servants, who live in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, whereof we our selves make too great a part; we beseech thee so to order the circumstances and opportu∣nities of our life, that we may live in the so∣ciety of holy people, whose example and con∣versation may be a continuall incentive to the

ways of peace and righteousnesse; and deliver us from a necessity of conversing with turbu∣lent spirits, angry, and unpeacefull dispositi∣ons, who upon all occasions make themselves ready to battell. Sanctifie our hearts and lips with a burning coal from thy altar, that our words may be holy and profitable, and keep us from all slander and scandall, and the re∣wards of both, the sharp arrows of thy ven∣geance, the hot burning coals of thy wrath. Grant this for Iesus Christ his sake, our Lord and onely Saviour. Amen.

PSALME 121.

A Prayer for Gods protection over us.

I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hils: from whence com∣meth my help.

2 My help commeth even from the Lord: which hath made heaven and earth.

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: and he that keepeth thee, will not sleep.

4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel: shall neither slumber nor sleep.

5 The Lord himself is thy keeper: the Lord is thy de∣fence upon thy right hand.

6 So that the Sun shall not burn thee by day: neither the moon by night.

7 The Lord shall preserve thee from all evill: yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul.

8 The Lord shall preserve thy going out, and thy com∣ming in: from this time forth for evermore.

The Prayer.

O Lord God our keeper, who dwellest upon the eternall hils from whence commeth all our help, let thy mercies and thy providence watch over us by day and night, that neither the vanities of the one, nor the terrors of the other may disturb our peace or safety. Let not our feet be moved, but be fixed upon the Rock Christ Jesus, and so order our goings, making us to walk in the way of thy Com∣mandments, that thou mayest goe in and out before us, till at last we come into thy presence to dwell with thee for evermore, through Je∣sus Christ our Lord. Amen.

PSALME 122.

A Prayer for the peace and prosperity of the Church.

I Was glad when they said unto me: We will goe into the house of the Lord.

2 Our feet shall stand in thy gates: O Jerusalem.

3 Jerusalem is builded as a city: that is at unity in i•• selfe.

4 For thither the Tribes goe up, even the Tribes of the Lord: to testifie unto Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.

5 For there is the seat of judgement: even the seat of the house of David.

6 O pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee▪

7 Peace be within thy wals: and plenteousnesse within thy palaces.

8 For my brethren and companions sakes: I will wish thee prosperity.

9 Yea, because of the house of the Lord our God: I will seek to do thee good.

The Prayer.

O Blessed Jesu, who didst descend according to thy humane Nature from the house of thy servant David, and hast planted a Church, and defended it with a mighty hand and great assistances be pleased to preserve peace within her wals, and send plenteousnesse within her palaces, that all that love her peace may pro∣sper, and receive the blessings which thou gi∣vest to thy faithfull people in the communion of Saints. Take from her all schismes and divi∣sions, that she may be like a city that is at uni∣ty within it self, strong in faith, abounding in hope, and rich in the treasures of charity, that at last she may be removed to a fellowship of all those joys and felicities which are laid up for the inhabitants of the heavenly Jerusalem which is from above, and is the mother of us all. Grant this, O blessed Jesu, our only Me∣diatour and Redeemer. Amen.

PSALME 123.

An ejaculation, or a lifting up our souls to God for help in trouble.

VNto thee lift I up mine eyes: O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

2 Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistresse: even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, untill he have mercy upon us.

3 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: for we are utterly despised.

4 Our soul is filled with the scornfull reproofe of the wealthy: and with the despite fulnesse of the proud.

The Prayer.

O Lord God, that dwellest in the heavens, have mercy upon us in all our troubles, in contempt, in our poverty, and when ever we are oppressed by any injurious practices of the proud. Thou art our Lord and Master, we are thy servants, our eyes wait upon thee till thou have mercy upon us: let us not be ashamed of our hope, nor unfaithfull in our services, nor distrustfull of thy providence, but make us dili∣gent labourers in our calling, good husbands of our talents, and faithfull in all thy house, that we first se••••ing thee may at last sit down at meat with thee at thy table in thy Kingdom, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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.

PSALME 125.

A Prayer for confidence in God, and for delive∣rance from the portion of the wicked.

THey that put their trust in the Lord, shall be even as the mount Sion: which may not be removed, but stan∣deth fast for ever.

2 The hils stand about Jerusalem: ••ven so standeth the Lord round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.

3 For the rod of the ungodly commeth not into the lot of the righteous: lest the righteous put their hand un∣to wickednesse.

4 Doe well, O Lord: unto those that be good and true of heart.

5 As for such as turn back unto their own wickednesse: the Lord shall lead them forth with the evill doers, but peace shall be upon Israel.

The Prayer.

O Lord God, our Trust and Confidence, in whom whosoever trusteth shall never be

removed, but standeth fast for ever: let thy mercies and the guard of holy Angels stand round about us, and about all thy holy people, like the hils for our defence and safety, that we may be inaccessible by all the intendments of our enemies. O let us not put our hands to wickednesse, neither let our portion be in the lot of the ungodly, whom thou leadest forth to destruction, but let us receive the blessing which our Lord Iesus left unto his Church, even the peace of God the Father, of the Son, and of the holy Ghost; to whom be all honour and glory ascribed of men and Angels, now and for ever. Amen.