Psalm 87: Reedifying of the Christian Congregation
adversaries may be confounded, and all men right well see and evidently perceive thee only to be our most good and loving God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
(Prayer 2) Notwithstanding we do right well consider (O most mighty God) that our force and counsels are very simple, yet we doubt not but that we thy blessed Saints and elect vessels, are provoked to pour out our earnest prayers and woeful cries continually before thy divine Majesty, and to repose our whole confidence in thee only. Be thou therefore pressed and ready (who art very meek and loving, and also endued with most bountiful mercy and goodness) to hear them that call incessantly to thee for speedy help. Before all things teach us thy most perfect ways, so that (all dissimulation and hypocrisy being laid apart) we may very purely and with much sincerity obey thy blessed commandments. And like as nothing is able to match thy Godhead, so our earnest desire is that all mortal men should know and duly reverence the same: which thing shall be done, if, as thou hast oftentimes delivered thy loving servants from most dangerous perils: so thou wouldest at this present have an especial regard unto them, by increasing their strength and making their perfect deliverance more ample, at what time the most puissant enemies of man's salvation rise up mightily against thy faithful people. Publish we humbly beseech thee, this famous and notable sign, to the intent that when as the cruel adversaries of thy glory shall right well understand the same, they may in good earnest unfeignedly turn and be converted unto thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
PSALM 87: REEDIFYING OF THE
CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION
Seeing that the Church is thy blessed house wherein thou (O Lord God) art highly praised and greatly commended. Vouchsafe we humbly beseech thee, that the foundation thereof be not made upon sand, but in a large plain ground situated upon the hills of thy most holy Saints, whose head and Chieftain is Christ.
And to the intent thou (O good Lord) mayst continually abide therein, or the