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 eighty second Psalm.

O Almighty Lord, who art the fountain of all honour and power, [Vers. 1] by whom Princes raign, and Magistrates decrée just things, [Vers. 3] vouchsafe thy pre∣sence in the midst of our Congregations; and preside, and be thou the Judge among our gods, that they judge thy people with equity, and thy inheri∣tance with righteousness. So the poor and fatherless shall be delended, [unspec 4] the afflicted and néedy have justice done them. By the just execution of thy power committed to thy Vicegerents, the poor and needy shall be delivered, and rid out of the violent hand of the wicked man.

But, O God, such hath béen our ingratitude, that that power which was ordained for our good and peace, is now become our greatest mischief, [unspec 2] for thou hast subjected us to wicked powers, and set over us hard Task-masters, our superiours, or who, at least, take upon them to be so, [unspec 5] are companions of Thieves, they judge unjustly, they accept the persons of the wicked, they pro∣nounce an unjust sentence, and out of the scale of justice they weight unto us gall and wormwood. All the foundations of our Land are out of course. For those who are stept into the Tribunals of justice, either are so igno∣rant, they do not know, or so perverse, that they will not know and un∣derstand what is right. So blinded they are either by honour, money, or ma∣lice, that they will not grow wiser by thy admonitions, but walk on still in the darkness of their own heart.

Leave not, O Lord, thy people in the power of them who are blind and cannot, or malicious, and will not understand their duty, but go about, for their own ends, to overthrow the two Pillars of the Land, [unspec 6] Piety and Iu∣stice. And since thou hast permitted them to come to that eminency, that they are called gods, and sons of the most High, [unspec 7] but have forgotten and dis∣honoured thée, that raised them, and discredited those places to which they are raised, bring them down, O Lord, and make them know they are but men, that they shall dye as the meanest man, and be brought to judgement. And that it they continue in their unjust and violent wayes, [unspec 8] their end shall be that of some inglorious Prince, whose name shall rot, whose memory shall be infamous, whose soul shall be cast from his height and dignity, into the depths and torments of the infernal pit.

Since then, O Lord, thou hast set over us such tyrannical Lords, from whom we can expect no justice, Arise thou in thy power, and judge the earth.

Thou art not now a God of the Jews only, but the Gentiles also; even we, that were not a people, are become thy people, and thine inheritance, and therefore it belongs to thée to exalt the Kingdom of thy Son. Come, O sweet Jesus, come quickly: And as at thy first coming, thou didst redeem thy peo∣ple from that unjust Oppressor, the Devil; and didst establish thy Church to be governed by just Laws, the execution of which thou hast put into the hand of the Magistrate; so, O Lord, come again, and by thy second coming, deliver us from the injustice and violence of our Oppressors. And thou, who dost render to every man according to his works, call these tyrants to an account for the male-administration of thy Laws. Render them, O Lord, seven-fold into their bosomes: So we thy people, and sheep of thy pasture, shall give thee thanks for ever.