Psalm 139: For the Knowledge of God's Divine Providence
but seemest to behold the proud a far of, because thou allowest in no wise their doings. We humbly require thee therefore to refresh and quicken us in the midst of our sorrowful tribulations, and repress the violence and hatred of the outrageous enemies of godliness, so that whilst thou shalt nourish and defend us (being the work of thy puissant hands) thy infinite mercy may be made right famous with eternal glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
PSALM 139: FOR THE KNOWLEDGE
OF GOD'S DIVINE PROVIDENCE
Thy knowledge and wisdom (O most mighty God) is of such force, as thou perfectly knowest all men's words, deeds, and thoughts, who also understandest the imaginations of our minds before we utter them. For no man is able to conceive and evidently discern the great wisdom thou showest in making and forming of our bodies: if we were comparable to the swift course of the Sun, or did excel the quickness of the Morning, or might clime up to heaven, or go down to hell, there is no place but thou wouldst meet with us, who hast seen and most evidently perceived even from the first creation, the unshapen mass of our bodies with all the members thereof, when as yet there was none of them. Forsomuch therefore as thou seemest to be on all sides so wonderful, our earnest request is that thou wouldest (for thy famous honors sake) be at length highly reverenced and duly worshipped in thy blessed Church. Let the wicked and such as have thy glorious name in great contempt, depart thence: but try thy faithful servants, we humbly beseech thee, and search them thoroughly out, to the intent they may know themselves: that if perhaps they swerve from the true and right way (as it often so happeneth by human infirmity) bring thou them again of thy great goodness, into the straight path of perpetual felicity, through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Amen.