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.

Evening Prayer.

PSALME 47.

A Prayer for the exaltation of Christs Kingdom, and that all the Princes of the world may joynt∣ly adore Jesus reigning in the Heavens.

O Clap your hands together (all ye people:) O sing unto God with the voice of me∣lody.

2 For the Lord is high, and to bee feared: he is the great King upon all the earth.

3 He shall subdue the people under us: and the nations under our feet.

4 He shall chuse out an heritage for us: even the wor∣ship of Jacob whom he loved.

5 God is gone up with a merry noise: and the Lord with the sound of the trump.

6 O sing praises, sing praises unto (our) God: O sing praises, sing praises unto our King.

7 For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

8 God reigneth over the hea••hen: God sitteth upon his holy seat.

9 The Princes of the people are joyned unto the peo∣ple of the God of Abraham: for God (which is very high exalted) doth defend the earth as it were with a shield.

The Prayer.

O Lord God King of Heaven, who raignest a great King in all the Earth; thou art high above all creatures, and art to be feared in all the Kingdomes of the earth, let the seed of thy Gospel be disseminated in all the cor∣ners

of the habitable World: let thy grace break down all the strong holds of sin and Sa∣tan, subduing all people under thee, and the Nations under thy feet, that the Princes of the Nations, that have not known thy Name, may be joyned to thy people, the people of the God of Abraham, becomming one sheepfold under one Shepheard, Iesus Christ our blessed Lord, our Saviour and Redeemer. Amen.

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.

PSALME 49.

A Prayer that we may despise perishing riches, and put our trust in God onely.

O Hear ye this, all ye people: ponder it with your eares all ye that dwell in the world.

2 High and low, rich and poor: one with another.

3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom: and my heart shall muse of understanding.

4 I will encline mine eare to the parable: and shew my dark speech upon the harp.

5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickednesse: and when the wickednesse of my heels compasse me round about?

6 There be some that put their trust in their goods: and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches.

7 But no man may deliver his brother: nor make an agreement to God for him.

8 For it cost more to redeem their souls: so that hee must let that alone for ever.

9 Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave.

10 For he seeth that wise men also die, and perish toge∣ther: as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other.

11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever: and that their dwelling places shall endure from one generation to another, and call the lands after their own names.

12 Neverthelesse, man will not abide in honour: see∣ing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish, this is the way of them.

13 This is their foolishnesse: and their posterity praise their saying.

14 They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning: their beauty shall consume in the sepul∣chre out of their dwelling.

15 But God hath delivered my soul from the place of hell: for he shall receive me.

16 Be not thou afraid though one be made rich: or if the glory of his house be increased.

17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth: neither shall his pomp follow him.

18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man: and so long as thou dost well unto thy self, men will speak good of thee.

19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers: and shall never see light.

20 Man being in honour hath no understanding: but is compared unto the beasts that perish.

The Prayer.

O Blessed Iesu, thou only Redeemer of souls, who by thy death and passion hast delive∣red us from the place of Hell, give us grace to put our whole trust in thee, and in the riches of thy mercy and loving kindnesse, always remembring our end, the vanity and shortnes of our lives, the certainty of our departure: Teach us to despise the world and worldly things, and to lay our treasure up in heaven by charity and actions of religion, that while we live here, wee may have our conversation in heaven, by love, by hope, and by desires, that when our beauty shall consume in the sepul∣chre out of our earthly dwellings, we may be received into everlasting habitations, always to enjoy thee, who livest and reignest eternall God world without end. Amen.