Preached upon the Penitentiall Psalmes

              preached upon the Penitenti penitentiall penitentially all psalmes psaltes Ps almes PSAL 6.4 64 64 5 RETURNE 0 LORD DELIVER MY SOULE 0 LORD SAVE ME FOR THY MERCIES SAKE FOR IN DEATH THERE IS NO remem- brance OF THEE THEEAND AND IN THE GRAVE WHO SHALL GIVE THEE THANKS HE WHOLE psalme psalmo is prayer and prayer is our whole service THE Ttogodearnestprayerhaththenatureofimportunitywee presse wee importune god in prayer yet that puts not god to a morosity to a frowardnesse frowardnesse god flings not away from that god suffers that importunity and more prayer hath the nature of im- pudency wee threaten god in prayer as gregory nazianzeno nazianzen Nazianzen adven- tures to expresse it he sales his sister in the vehemence of her prayer would threaten god et honesta guadam quadam impudentia egit impudent impudentem em she came sales he to a religious impudency with god and to threaten him that she would never depart from his altar till she had her petition granted and god suffers this impudency and more prayer hath the nature of violence in the publique publique prayers of the congregation we besiege god sales tertullian and we take god prisoner and bring god to our conditions and god is glad to be straitned straitened straitned by us in that siege this prophet here executes before what the apostle counsailes counsailes after pray incessantly even in his singing he prayes brayes and as S basil sales eliam etiam somnia justorum justorum preces sunt A good mans dr dreames drearnes dreamel earnes are prayers he prayes brayes and not sleepily in his sleepe so davids songs are prayers now in this his besieging of god he brings up his works from a far off closer he begins in this psalme psalmo at a deprecatory prayer he asks nothing but that god would doe I1