Psalm 81: For Perseverance in Faith
and pleasant gifts, are now overthrown day by day with greater and more grievous afflictions. Yet we humbly beseech thee (for thy singular mercies sake) not to forsake thy sacred Church being vexed so miserably and after such a wretched sort. Be present at length thereunto in such wise, that she may perpetually keep and retain the true Religion and pure doctrine which thou hast set forth and delivered unto her, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(Prayer 2) It hath pleased thee (O most mighty God) of thy great mercies sake, both to be in deed, and also called a shepherd unto sch as trust unfeignedly in thee: from thy high throne therefore, in the which thou settest upon the Cherubins and all the powers, stir thy healthful strength and might (we humbly beseech thee) that we may be mightily preserved thereby. But thou who seemest sometime to be angry with thy faithful servants, and makest them after a loss to become a derision and mocking stock for the ungodly to jest at: turn now at length the countenance of thy blessed grace and loving favor upon them: and suffer not thy holy Church (being thy true vine which thou hast planted with thy wonderful providence, and husbanded by thy self) to be trodden down and laid waste of savage and most cruel impiety: repay the same again in such wise, we humbly beseech thee, that those things which are in her pressed down by the undermining of hypocrisy, thou mayest bring to light and restore again whatsoever hath been consumed by the fiery flame of tyranny, and a fresh make whole and sound the things that are much mangled and maimed: let thy favorable hand be prompt and ready to our speedy defense, so that we (being quickened by thee) may call upon thy blessed name, and being lightened with the benign countenance of thy loving mercy, may live safe and sound to thee only and none other, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
PSALM 81: FOR PERSEVERANCE IN FAITH
We have no small cause (O most mighty God) to celebrate thy inestimable praise with exceeding great gladness and a very cheerful mind, for so much as thou hast of thy infinite goodness delivered us from the miserable servitude of