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 48.

A Prayer for the prosperity of the Church.

GReat is the Lord, and highly to be praised: in the City of our God, even upon his holy hill.

2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth: upon the north side lieth the City of the great King, God is well known in her palaces as a sure refuge.

3 For lo, the Kings of the earth are gathered, and gone by together.

4 They marvelled to see such things: they were asto∣nied and suddenly cast down.

5 Fear came there upon them, and sorrow: as upon a woman in her travell.

6 Thou shalt break the ships of the sea: through the east winde.

7 Like as wee have heard, so have we seen in the City of the Lord of hosts, in the City of our God: God uphol∣deth the same for ever.

8 We wait for thy loving kindnesse (O God:) in the midst of thy temple.

9 O God, according unto thy name, so is thy praise unto the worlds end: thy right hand is full of righteous∣nesse.

10 Let the mount Sion rejoyce, and the daughters of

Juda be glad: because of thy judgements.

11 Walk about Sion, and goe round about her: and tell the towers thereof.

12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses: that yee may tell them that come after.

13 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he shall be our guide unto death.

The Prayer.

O Great God, who art highly to be praised, who hast manifested thy power and thy mercy in the constitution, propagation, and de∣fence of thy Holy Church, by the miraculous assistances and effects of thy Holy Spirit, inso∣much that the Kings of the earth marvelled to see such things, and were astonied and sudden∣ly cast down, acknowledging the powers of thy Kingdome, and submitting to thy laws with faith and obedience: be pleased, accor∣ding to thy gracious promise, to uphold the same for ever, let not the gates of hell prevail against thy Church, be thou known in her pa∣laces as a sure refuge, make her the joy of the whole earth, and let her be glad and rejoyce because of thy judgements: so shall we praise thee in the midst of thy Temple, waiting for thy loving kindnesse, that according as thy Name is, so may thy praise be, infinite, and eternall, world without end. Amen.