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 44.

A Prayer in time of Warre.

WE have heard with our eares, O God, our fathers have told us: what thou hast done in their time of old.

2 How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and pl••nted them in: how thou hast destroyed the Nations, and cast them out.

3 For they gat not the Land in possession through their own sword: neither was it their own arm that helped them.

4 But thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou hadst a favour unto them.

5 Thou art my King (O God:) send help unto Ja∣cob.

6 Through thee will we overthrow our enemies: and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

7 For I will not trust in my bow: it is not my sword that shall help me.

8 But it is thou that savest us from our enemies: and puttest them to confusion that hate us.

9 We make our boast of God all day long: and will praise thy name for ever.

10 But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confus∣on: and goest not forth with our Armies.

11 Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our en••∣mies: so that they which hate us spoil our goods.

12 Thou lettest us to be eaten up like sheep: and hast scattered us among the Heathen.

13 Thou sell••st thy people for nou••ht: and tak••st no money for them.

14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours: to be laughed to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us.

15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the hea∣then: and that the people shake their heads at us.

16 My confusion is daily before me: and the shame of my face hath covered me.

17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer: for the enemy and avenger.

18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee: nor behave our selves frowardly in thy cove∣nant.

19 Our heart is not turned back: neither our steps gone out of thy way.

20 No not when thou hast smitten us into the place of Dragons: and covered us with the shadow of death.

21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and holden up our hands to any strange God: shall not God search it out? for hee knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long: and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.

23 Up Lord, why sleepest thou: awake, and be not ab∣sent from us for ever.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face: and forgettest our misery and trouble?

25 For our soul is brought low even unto the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the ground.

26 Arise and help us: and deliver us for thy mercie s¦ake.

The Prayer.

O Lord God of hosts, who for our sins hast suffered the sword to take vengeance up∣on us, and to plead thy cause against us, O hide not thy face from us, and forget not our mise∣ry

and trouble. We are killed all day long, and are accounted as sheep appointed to be slain, we are covered with the shadow of death, and they which hate us, spoile our goods. Deal with us in pity, and as thou hast done to our Fathers of old time, when they called upon thee in their trouble, so deal with us: thou overthrewest their enemies, and didst tread them under that arose up against them. Arise, and help us, and deliver us also for thy mercy sake: our own sword cannot help us, but let thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance work deliverance and sal∣vation for us. Go forth with our Armies, O thou God of Hosts, do thou fight our Battels, that we may not turn our backs upon our ene∣mies, but crown us with Victory and Peace, that we may make our boast of thee all day long, and praise thy Name for ever, who art holy, and just, and mercifull, the great God of Battels and recompences. From thee let mer∣cy now and ever proceed, and to thy Name let honour be for ever ascribed of all the Hosts of Heaven and Earth, world without end. Amen.

PSALME 45.

A Prayer for the conversion of the Heathen, and prosperity of the Church.

MY heart is enditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made unto the King.

2 My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

3 Thou art fairer then the children of men: full of grace are thy lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.

4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty: according to thy worship and renown.

5 Good luck have thou with thine honour: ride on, because of the word of truth, of meeknesse and righteous∣nesse, and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto thee: even in the midst among the Kings enemies.

7 Thy seat (O God) endureth for ever: the scepter of thy Kingdome is a right scepter.

8 Thou hast loved righteousnesse, and hated iniquity: wherefore God (even thy God) hath anointed thee with the oyl of gladnesse above thy fellows.

9 All thy garments smell of myrrhe, aloes, and cassia: out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

10 Kings daughters were among thy honourable wo∣men: upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in a ve∣sture of gold (wrought about with divers colou••s.)

11 Hearken (O daughter) and consider, encline thine eare: forget also thine own people, and thy fathers house.

12 So shall the King have pleasure in thy beauty: for he is thy Lord (God) and worship thou him.

13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift: like as the rich also among the people shall make their sup∣plication before thee.

14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needle-work: the virgins that be her fellows shall beare her company, and shall be brought unto thee.

16 With joy and gladnesse shall they be brought: and shall enter into the Kings Palace.

17 In stead of thy fathers thou shalt have children: whom thou mayest make Princ••s in all Lands.

18 I will remember thy name from one generation unto another: therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee world without end.

The Prayer.

O Blessed Jesu, Prince of the Catholike Church, thou art fairer then the children of men, thy lips are full of grace, thine Armies mighty, thy head is Crowned with Majesty, and clothed with worship and renown: have mer∣cy upon thy holy Church, blesse her for ever with righteousnesse, and let the oyle of glad∣nesse refresh her amidst the multitude of her sorrows and afflictions: And because she is the daughter of a King, and thou takest pleasure in her beauty, let her not alwaies be clothed in mourning garments, but let her be decked with exteriour Ornaments and secular ad∣vantages, such as may truly promote the in∣terests of holy Religion. Let Kings and Queens be nursing Fathers, and nursing Mothers unto her, and so let the sound of thy Gospell go in∣to all the Earth, that her children may be Princes in all Lands, and Ministers of thy King∣dome, advancing thy honour, and furthering the salvation of all men, for whom thou didst give thy precious bloud, that all people may worship thee, and give thee thanks for ever, who together with the Father and the holy Ghost, livest and reignest one God world with∣out end. Amen.

PSALME 46.

A Prayer for protection, and for confidence in God in times of publike distractions, and for the peace of Christendome.

GOD is our hope and strength: a very present help in trouble.

2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth be mo∣ved: and though the hills be carried into the midst of the Sea.

3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell: and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same.

4 The rivers of the floud thereof shall make glad the City of God: the holy place of the tabernacle of the most Highest.

5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed: God shall help her, and that right early.

6 The Heathen make much adoe, and the Kingdomes are moved: but God hath shewed his voyce, and the earth shall melt away.

7 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.

8 O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord: what destruction he hath brought upon the earth.

9 He maketh Wars to cease in all the World: he brea∣keth the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and bur∣neth the Chariots in the fire.

10 Be still then, and know that I am God: I will bee exalted among the Heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth.

11 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.

The Prayer.

O Most mercifull Saviour Jesu, Prince of Peace, at whose birth all the Kingdomes of the World were in peace and tranquillity, bethou in the midst of us for our refuge and present help in times of trouble and publick calamities, when the Kingdome is moved, and the hearts of men shake at the tempest of the same. Dear God, unite all the parts of Chri∣stendome with the union of Faith and Charity, and the fruits of them, a blessed and universall Peace. Break the bow of the mighty, knappe the spear of the Warriour in sunder, and burn the Chariots in the fire, that Warres may cease in all the World, and we all may feel the pro∣mised blessing of the Gospel, that our Swords may be converted into plowshares, and our Spears into pruning hooks, that thy Name and thy Kingdome may be exalted among the heathen, and in all the Nations of the earth, who livest the reignest over all, in the unity of the blessed Trinity, God eternall, world with∣out end. Amen.