The Prayer.

O Merciful God, while that help and salvation, [Vers. 1] which we alone expect from thée, is delayed and with-held from us, our very souls have faint∣ed within us. To thée we look day and night, [ 2] and our eyes are bent toward heaven in expectation of thy promises. O Lord, when wilt thou comfort us? [ 3] Our body languisheth, our skin is furrowed into wrinkles, no bottle in the smoke is more dryed up, than is our flesh, while we look and long for help from thy hand.

Proud men, the sons of Belial, that have shaked off the yoke, [ 5] have digg'd pits for our life. They wrongfully persecute us; [ 6] They have almost consumed us upon the earth. O Lord, how many are the dayes of thy servants? [ 7] How long shall this affliction endure? [ 4] when shall the dayes of this tentation and misery be at an end? when wilt thou execute jugement on them that persecute us? Help us, O Lord, for we hope in thy Word; arise and deliver us, [ 1] for we have not forgotten, nor yet will forsake thy Statutes. This we have resolved on, [Vers. 3.7.] Page  422this we have decréed, but to perform this resolution of our selves we are not able, no more than a dead man is to execute the actions of the living. Quick∣en us then with thy Grace according to thy loving-kindness, and infiniteness of thy mercy, [ 8] and so will we kéep thy Testimonies, which thou hast made known unto us by thine own finger, and left unto us by the mouth of thy own Son, Iesus Christ our Lord.