David's harp strung and tuned, or, An easie analysis of the whole book of Psalms cast into such a method, that the summe of every Psalm may quickly be collected and remembred : with a devout meditation or prayer at the end of each psalm, framed for the most part out of the words of the psalm, and fitted for several occasions / by the Reverend Father in God, William ... Lord Bishop of Gloucester.

The Prayer collected out of the sixty second Psalm.

O God, infinite in essence, terrible in judgments, though thou hast com∣manded us in our trouble to call upon thee, and to trust unto thee; yet such is the infirmity of flesh and blood, that we find in our distresses too many discouragements; tempted we are to doubt whether thou canst, but more often sollicited to doubt whether thou wilt come down and deliver us.

But such is thy condescension to the weakness of man, [Ver. 11] That thou hast spoken once, [Ver. 12] nay twice we might have heard the same, once by thy Word, and again privately by thy Spirit, that power belongs to thee, that also unto thee belongs mercy; power, and therefore thou canst; mercy, and therefore thou wilt re∣lieve us.

Be it then, [Ver. 1] that our soul is like to be drowned with a whole flood of evils, and the sorrows of death compass us round, yet we will submit our selves only unto thée, [unspec 2] our soul shall wait upon our God, being fully assured that thou art able, and perswaded that thou art willing; [unspec 5] and therefore from thy power and mercy shall come our salvation, that thou in thy good time will be to us a Rock to secure us, [unspec 6] a defence to keep us, and therefore we will not be greatly moved.

Our enemies are many and mighty, [unspec 7] and they make many assaults to our ruine and utter overthrow: But how long, O ye sons of men, will ye imagine mischief against the innocent? [Ver. 3] how long will ye take counsel to cast him down from his excellency? How long will you invent lyes, and speak unto me smooth and fair words with your mouths, [unspec 4] when you curse me in your hearts?

Know you not, That in God is my salvation and my glory? that he is the Rock of my strength, [unspec 7] and that I hope and expect that he will be my Refuge? And therefore I am fully perswaded that all your endeavours are in vain, ye shall be slain all the sort of you; [unspec 3] you shall be as a bowing wall, that suddenly falls to

ruine; and as a tottering hedge, which a small blast throws down; for thou, [unspec 12] O God, art just, and renderest to every man according to his works.

O Lord then, so strengthen our faith, that we may trust only in thée; found we have by experience, That the man of low degree is but vanity, [unspec 9] and the man of high degree is a lye; when we have had occasion to make trial of them, and weigh them in the balance, they have béen found too light; nay, [unspec 10] lighter than vanity it self. As for riches, they in the day of trouble have taken themselves wings, and flown away; as they have increased, so also we must confess, that our love hath béen increased to them, and our hearts hath béen too much set up∣on them; but even our experience hath taught us this also, that these are but miserable comforters.

Wherefore men and money, and all other worldly helps being set by, at all times, in prosperity and adversity, in life and in death we will trust to thée; [unspec 8] to thée will we make our prayer, before thée will we poure forth our sorrows, our thoughts, the destres of our hearts; for thou only art the defence and refuge of all that hope in thée for ever and ever. Amen.