The Church prayeth and preuaileth.
the 6. key.
The Church prayeth that her children may auoide sinful wordes, 4. not make excuses of sinnes committed, not communicate with others in sinne, nor to harken to flatterers: 6. but to pray that they may amend (the Psalmist by the way prophecieth that manie shal be conuerted) 8. though sometimes persecution be great, the Church faileth not.
1 A Psalme of Dauid
LORD I haue cried to thee, heare me: attend to my voice, when I crie to thee.
2 Let my prayer be directed as incense in thy sight: the eleuation of my handes as euening sacrifice.
3 Set ô Lord a watch to my mouth: and a doore round about to my lippes.
4 Decline not my hart into wordes of malice, to make excuses in sinnes.
With men that worke iniquitie: and I wil not communicate with the chiefe of them.
5 The iust shal rebuke me in mercie, and shal reprehend me: but let not the oyle of a sinner fatte my head.
Because yet also my prayer is in their good pleasures: 6 their iudges are swalowed vp ioyned to the rocke.
They shal heare my wordes because they haue prevailed:
7 as the grossenes of the earth is broken out vpon the earth.
8 Our bones are dissipated nere to hel: for to thee ô Lord, Lord are mine eies; in thee haue I hoped, take not away my soule.
9 Keepe me from the snare, which they haue set for me: and from the scandals of them that worke iniquitie.
10 Sinners shal fal in his net: I am alone vntil I passe.