Psalm 29: That We May Be Obedient to the Word of God
people and chosen heritage (as thou hast promised and as we faithfully believe) then preserve, feed, and be favorable unto us, and bring us forth to the chief and highest bless which we have always an especial eye and principal regard unto, through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen.
PSALM 29: THAT WE MAY BE OBEDIENT
TO THE WORD OF GOD
So many of us (O heavenly father) as are promoted through thy unspeakable mercy, that we both be, and also are named the children of God, have no light occasion or small regard to celebrate thy divine majesty, by the effect of those things which in the work of nature we see to proceed from thee, which are so passing excellent and marvelous, that they show forth themselves, to those that behold them, as most certain and manifest tokens of thy unspeakable glory and dignity. Thou bringest forth so mightily, when thy good pleasure is, showers, clouds, lightnings, earthquakes, and overflowings of waters, that even the hills and trees (although they be very high, and all other living things, do both greatly and horribly quake. We only (O good God) are blind, deaf, and dull to conceive these thy most wondrous works. Wherefore, for the love thou bearest unto us, having compassion upon so great foolishness and unskillfulness, which proceedeth of nothing else than of sin, grant that we (being at length exempted from them) may both acknowledge thy excellency in thy notable works, and sing also perpetual praises to thee for thy manifold benefits extended toward us, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
PSALM 30: THAT ALL OUR AFFLICTIONS MAY WELL
DEPART FROM US, BY GOD'S ESPECIAL GRACE
(Prayer 1) We ought (O most merciful god) to celebrate and extol thee with wonderful and unspeakable praises, because thou art so prone and ready to preserve those that with an unfeigned heart call diligently upon thy blessed name.
We do plainly acknowledge and openly confess our sins to be innumerable and
most heinous, for the which right worthy are we to be adjudged of eternal destruction and perpetual death. But our earnest request is that thou wouldst show the like favorable mercy towards us, as thou wert accustomed to do unto thy elect and chosen servants, although thou art wont to chastise them with a short kind of wrath, and such a one as endureth but the turning of a hand, which forthwith thou alterest into an exceeding great good will, and such a one as lasteth continually. Preserve us therefore from the present evils and imminent perils, which hang over our heads, that we (being saved and delivered out of all danger) may confess thee, and be both sure and experienced witnesses touching the truth of thy faithful promises, and also everywhere, and in all places show forth and publish that thou only and none other ought to be trusted in, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(Prayer 2) Thy blessed Church (O almighty GOD) prayeth thee to relieve her, being sore tossed and oppressed with these stormy tempests: neither suffer thou the fierce enemies of thy glorious name to rejoice and triumph at her destruction. Thou art accustomed (O good God) both to hear and also to help without delay such as earnestly call upon thee, and it is in thy mighty hand and power to bring back again from the grave, and to quicken those which were now in a manner fallen into the pit. Wherefore to the intent thou mayest stir up an earnest desire and fervent affection in our minds to thy worthy praise, show thyself to have been angry with us, yet let it be but for a moment: neither shall that inestimable love of thine towards us (whereby we live and shall live in thee) be anything the more in that respect diminished. Bring speedily to pass we humbly beseech thee, that our sorrowful tears, deep sighs, and piteous groans, may shortly be changed into godly mirth and joyful gladness. Mark thou in no wise our deserts, but what beseemeth thee best. We truly are worthy of deadly hatred and extreme punishments, by reason of our manifold sins, who so long as all things happened luckily, and as we would have it, vainly imagined, that we could bear out all things of our own strength and power. But now, when thou hast a little turned thy loving countenance from us, and present calamities have appeared, we are so astonished and stricken with fear, that we can scarcely abide or