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.

I.

SOn of David, Blessed Redeemer, Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon me. O Jesu, be a Jesus unto me, thou that sparedst thy servant Peter that denied thee thrice, thou that didst cast seven Devils out of Mary Magdalen, and forgavest the woman taken in adultery, and didst beare the convert thief from the Crosse, to the joys of Paradise, have mercy upon me also; for although I have amassed together more sinnes, then all these in conjunction, yet not their sins, nor mine, nor the sins of all the world can equall thy glorious mercy, which is as infinite, and eternall as thy self. I acknowledge, O Lord, that I am vile, but yet redeemed with thy pre∣cious bloud; I am blinde, but thou art the light of the world; I am weak, but thou art my strong Rock; I have been dead in trespasses and sins, but thou art my resurrection and my life. Thou, O Lord, lovest to shew mercy, and

the expressions of thy mercy, the nearer they come to infinite, the more proportionable they are to thy essence, and like thy self. Behold then, O Lord, a fit object for thy pity: my sins are so great and many that to forgive me, will be an act of glorious mercy, and all the praises which did accrue to thy name, by the forgivenes of David, and Manasses, and S. Paul, and the adulteresse, and the thief, and the Publican, will be multiplied to thy honour, in the forgive∣ness of me so vile, so unworthy a wretch, that I have nothing to say for my self, but that the greatness of my misery, is a fit object for thy miraculous and infinite mercy. Despise me not, O Lord, for I am thy creature, despise me not, for thou didst die for me, cast me not away in thine anger, for thou camest to seek me, and to save me. Say unto my soul, I am thy salva∣tion; let thy holy Spirit lead me from the er∣rours of my ways, into the paths of righteous∣ness, to great degrees of repentance, and through all the parts of a holy life, to a godly and a holy death. Grant this, O blessed Jesu, for thy mercies, and for thy pity sake. Amen.