The Prayer collected out of the fifty seventh Psalm.
O Lord, our enemies are many and mighty,
[unspec 4] they roar against us like Ly∣ons, they are set on fire to devoure us; their teeth are as spears and ar∣rows, and their tongue a sharp sword, to wound us in our good name;
[unspec 6] crafty they are, for they have digged a Pit; and cunning they are, for they have spread a Net to ensnare, to take us.
O Lord be merciful, O God be merciful unto us, send down, we beséech thée,
[unspec 1] help from Heaven, and save us from the reproach of them that would eat us up.
[unspec 3] Declare thy power, O Lord, and come amongst us, and send forth thy Mer∣cy and Truth for our deliverance; thy Mercy is infinite, thy Word is past,
[unspec 1] and in that my soul trusteth, and in the shadow of thy wings; in thy protection only, shall be my Refuge, till these calamities be over-past.
Continually, and with an ardent soul,
[unspec 2] I will call upon that God which is the most High, most potent; that God that hath so often done me good, and I doubt not but be will perform his word, and make perfect his salvation.
Do thou, O Lord, declare thy power,
[unspec 5] and shew that thou art the Lord of the whole Earth, get thy self a Name by the punishment of these wicked men, that all things both in Heaven and Earth may exalt thy justice, and give thée the glory.
To do this, O Lord, my heart is ready, my heart is fixed,
[unspec 7] for thy benefits shall never slip out of my memory, nor thy goodness recede from my heart; neither will I remember them alone, but they shall be my song in the house of my pilgrimage; I will compose Hymns to the honour of thy Name, and in my song praise thée.
I will say to my heart and tongue, which art my glory,
[unspec 8] awake out of thy bed of forgetfulness, shake off this dulness in which thou hast slept so long, and readily and chearfully sing Hymns to the honour of thy Saviour; and that the praise may be the fuller, call for thy Harp and Psaltery, and all other instruments of Musick, which in these troublesome times have béen broken and cast by; call for these, I say, and make a melodious sound in the ears of the God of Jacob.
Come along with me,
[unspec 9] and we will enter together into the house of our God, then before the morning Sun, that we may praise him early with joy∣ful lips: There will we praise thee, O Lord, in the Assembly of many people; there will we chant Hymns to thy honour before many Nations.
For thy mercy is so great, That it reacheth to the very Heavens;
[unspec 10] and thy faithfulness in keeping thy promises such, That it extends above the Clouds; for both these mount up to the Heavens above, and pass through the Earth be∣neath; both these are so high and wonderful, that they can never be compre∣hended by us.
Therefore I pray, and I pray again,
[unspec 11] that thou wouldst shew thy self Lord of the Heaven, and that thou wouldst shew thy Glory in the whole Earth; which, though thou dost eminently, when thou dost frée the innocent from the hand of the Oppressor, yet then thou shalt perfectly bring it to pass, when the goodness and mercy, and glory of thy justice being divul∣ged through the World by the preaching of thy Gospel, all false-worship being destroy••••, thou shalt drow all men unto thy self.
Arise therefore, O good Father, Be thou exalted, and make thy glory il∣lustrious, convert all Nations to the Truth; break the Nets, fill up the pits, make the craft and subtilty of Antichrist and his Followers of none effect, which they use to eclipse the light of thy Gospel; so shall our hearts be every day more and more confirmed to confess, praise, and celebrate thy Name, and to exalt it above all things, through Iesus Christ thy only Son, and out only Saviour. Amen.