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A42565	The saints recreation, third part, upon the estate of grace containing and methodicially [sic] delineating a Christians progress, priviledges, comforts and duties, beginning at conversion : describing also the Blessed Redeemer Jesus, both absolutely and comparatively : and all these in spiritual hymns and songs, suted to grave sweet and melodious tunes, together with a plain paraphrase upon the margent, confirming all by Scriptures, explaining difficulties and methodizing the songs / compiled by Mr. William Geddes ...	Geddes, William, 1600?-1694.	1683 (1683)	Wing G447; ESTC R37394	49,750	112

Religious Memento's or Memorandums for the whole dayes Spirituall Exercise P. 89 c. THE DEDICATION To the Right Honourable most pious and vertuous Lady Dame MARGARET LESLEY Councess Dowager of Weems MADAM THough this little Treatise may be called mine be way of composing yet is may be justly called your Ladieships work by way of publishing and presenting it into the World For it was your Ladieship and your Noble Daughter that most excellent Young Ladie Dame MARGARET Countess and Heretrix of WEEMS who gave me the most considerable advance for my encouragement and assistance in Printing And by such works as this Your Ladieship gives a clear demonstraiting that you are not like that barren Fig-Tree mentioned in Luke Cha. 13. vers 7. But like the pleasant Palm-Tree bringing forth 〈◊〉 in Old Age Psal. 92. 14. And the scope of this work being to divert if possible our profane vulgar from 〈◊〉 Sonners to more Christian and Spiritiuall divertisements I hope Your Ladieship need not be ashamed to vouchsafe it the smiling aspect of your favourable counten●●●● To run out upen Your Ladieships Elogies and Applauses Your Vertues are so great and conspicuous and my Stile so low and disproportionable that I dare not much adventure lest I be found deficient Your Pietie and Devotion towards GOD your Equitie towards Mert your Charitable Supplies to indigent Christians your Equabilitie and composednesse of Spirit in all conditions of Life whether Prosperitie or Adversitie are so menifest to all that common Fame if I should insist might easilie put to silence my weak Oratrie It hath pleased GOD Almightie to attend your Ladieship with some singular Providences and extraordinarie Blessings Lord great you suteable Thankfulness As first the LORD hath been pleased to propagat and continue three Noble Ancient and Eminent Families by your happie Ofspring The Lord was graciouslie pleased to make your Ladieship an happie and successfull 〈◊〉 in that wonderful Restauration of our Royal Soveraign the Kings Sacred Majestie without Blood which is one of the great wonders of our Age and whereupon all the World ●●●ked with admiration and astonishment And this your Ladieship did by influencing with Christian Advice as I am informed those who were in power at the time And as this Noble Enterprise at such a time evidenced Masculine Courage and Heroick Magnanimitie so it was an infallible argument of most Christian Humanitie and Superlative Loyaltie There is yet one thing more which I cannot omit deserving great deference being some piece of rariety in this cold Laodicean-like and backslyding Age And that it your Christian-Moderation Prudence and Sobrietie that whileas the most part of People are deviating to some sinful and vicious extreams upon the right hand or the lest some to erroneous giddiness and unconstant levity some to Atheistical loosenoss and profanity Your Ladieship all the time hath keeped the middle line of a golden Mediocrity even the straight course of solide sober and substantious Christianity Which I am confident shall afford your Ladieship unspeakable Peace and Comfort here and conduct you to Eternall Felicity hereafter And this shall be the constant Prayer of him who it Urquhart Iune 6 1683. MADAM Your Ladieships most obsequious and devouted Servant in CHRIST VVILLIAM GEDDES Preface to the READER IT is not a new nor strange thing to teach Religion by way of Songs We find the most material and Spiritual subjects in all the Sacred Scriptures not only by way of precept enjoyned but also according to divine precept delivered in Songs Moses the choice Man of God is observed to make the first Hexameter verses in Hebrew in that super-excellent gratulatory Song Exod 15. upon the miraculous deliverance of Israel at the Red Sea Did not the Lord command Moses to teach the People of Israel in a Song Deut. 31. and chap. 32. His manifold mercies their horride and base unthank fulness the formidable consequents of their ingratitude to wit fearful Iudgements Which is indeed an abridgment of all Prophecies Beside the Book of Psalms penned for the most part by David and some by Moses and others which by some is called the marrow of Scripture we have as Spiritual and Soul ravishing a book as in all the Scripture delivered in Songs to wit the Song of Solomon which being well understood holds forth most pathetically the sweet most intimat and heart-transporting communion betwixt Christ his Spouse the Church Moreover we have the Song of Isaiah Isai. Chap. 12. Of Habbakkuk Chap. 3. ● 17. The Song of Zacharias Luk. 1. 67 68. c. The blessed Virgin and Elizabeth at the rising of the Sun of Righteousness upon the Horizon of a sinful World or the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour Luke 2 42 46. c. And finally we have the heavenly Halelujahs of Angells and Saints in the Church triumphant delivered in Songs Rev. 15 3 4. 19 5 6. The Blessed Apostle of the Gentiles not only enjoyns to sing Psalmes but also Hymns and Spirituall Songs Ephes. 5 19 Col. 3 16. The reason of all this seems to be that the elegancy of the Poetical stile and accuratnes of the forme together with the harmonious melody of the tune or aire in singing may induce people to the more frequent perusing these subjects of the greatest consequence for meditation and may take the deeper impress in the memory for delightful retention It is looked upon as one of the most edifying works that ever the Protestant Reformers in Germany attempted that in imatation as it were of the primitive patern of the ancient Jewish Church they reduced the most of Christian Religion into Spiritual Songs which the German Protestants are continually singing to this day when they are upon journey when about their secular employments morning and evening and at all occasions I have been much longing for the like work in the English Language for reclaming if possible our profane vulgar from obscene bawdy Songs which are most scandalous to our profession to more Christian-like divertisements but have not as yet found such a thing don methodically and fully I find indeed many excellent Poems upon scattered select subjects farre more accurat then mine and some godly ballads written by pious and devout Ministers at several occasions which I acknowledge Contain very good matter and to my certain experience I have found them very useful for edification and raising the affections of some devout persons and have often wished that all these godly Songs should be Collected and Printed in one Book Yet in them all I desiderat a methodical coherence and confirmation by Scriptures and some other illustrations for satisfying the Judicious I have attempted according to my mean Talent to break the Yce and lay a foundation for others of more excellent parts to bring such a work to some perfection I have not sought for a sublime losty stile nor hunted after pedantick expressions or Romantick phrases partly that the Treatise might be usefull and

THE SAINTS RECREATION THIRD PART UPON THE ESTATE OF GRACE CONTAINING And methodicially delineating a Christians Progress Priviledges Comforts and Duties beginning at Conversion describing also the blessed Redeemer JESUS both absolutely and comparatively And all these in Spiritual Hymns and Songs suted to grave sweet and melodious Tunes Together with a plain Paraphrase upon the margent confirming all by Scriptures explaining difficulties and methodizing the Songs Compiled by Mr. WILLIAM GEDDES Minister of the Gospel first at Wick in Caithnes and after at Urquhart in Murray Colos. 3 16. Let the word of CHRIST dwell in you richly in all wisdome teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs c. EDINBVRGH Printed by David Lindsay Mr. James Kniblo Josua van Solingen and John Colmar Anno Dom. M. D.C.LXXXIII The PRIVILEDGE FOR AS MUCH as Mr. William Geddes late Minister at Urquhart having made ane humble addresse to his Majesties Privy Council Representing that he hath been at great care pains diligence and expences in compiling the Books following and which are now in the Press viz. Memoriale Historicum and the Saincts Recreation and these other Books Which he intends for the Press viz. Geographical and Arithmetical Memorials Memoriale Hebraicun for facilitating the Hebrew Language Vocabularium Latino-Hebraicum in Hexameter Verse and Familiae Famigeratae and humbly desiring that he might have a Priviledge for Printing the Books by himself his Heits Executors or Assigneys for some years and that he might be Recommended for his Encouragement and Assistance to all Persons of Ingenuity and Generosity for promoving and perfecting such ane Work THE LORDS of His Majesties Privy Council having heard and considered the foresaid Addresse and Representation with the report of a committè of their own number that the said Books are worthy to be Published and will be very useful and conducive to the advancing of Piety and Learning Do therefore Recommend the said Mr. William Geddes his printed Advertisement of the saids Treatises to all His Majesties good Subjects for his Encouragement and Assistance in the said Work as their generosity and ingenuity shall prompt them And further do hereby give and grant to the said Mr. William Geddes the sole and only Priviledge of Printing the foresaid Treatises compiled by him for the space of Nineteen years after the date hereof Discharging all others to print re-print import or vent the same during that space without the said Mr. William Geddes his own or the consent of his Heirs Executors or Assigneys under the pain of Confiscation thereof to his and their use Ordaining these Presents to be printed and prefixed to the said Books respective that none pretend Ignorane Extr by me Edinburgh the fifteenth day of March 1683. WILL. PATERSON Cls. Sti Con. An Apology for the Authors delay WHeras many generous persons have advanced before hand the price of the Books mentioned in the Authors advertisement and they may possibly admire that they have not received these Books long ago according to the Authors promise I humbly plead at those generous persons hands that they may have the author excused For as no man can promise absolutely for his own life or health so much as for ane houre so not for the constant progress of a press and the Author used all diligence imaginable yet Ultra posse non est esse And as the best of works meet ordinarly with the most and greatest obstructions be reason of Satans and his Instruments malice So hath his pious and worthy designe been obstructed several wayes which are not altogether pertinent to be divulged Therefore I hope that discreet and intelligent persons will have so much humanity and ingenuity as to consider that such promises must be alwayes understood to be conditional implying such reservations as these IF GOD WILL IF HEALTH-SERVE c. I humbly intreat also that you read this Book deliberatly and seriously comparing it with the Authors design mentioned in his Preface before you passe a rash or harsh censure upon it In this Giddy Notional age there is much imaginary supposed knowledge but too little conscience Many new coyn'd words and high slown Notions but few Spiritual Meditations and Religious practises which are most suteable to those who keep a closs constant Heart-communion with GOD walking alwayes as in the view of Heaven and Hell Death and Iudgement And I suppose such hes been the Spiritual frame of the Author at the compiling of this treatise It is probable that some Men of preposterous tempers at the first sight of the Book not finding it stuffed with fruitles curiosities may presently nauseat and disdaine But read I pray you consideratly and you shall find it wants not Christian acutenes And be pleased but to have a little patience till the Authors other Book called Memoriale Historicum come to your hands which I hope shall be shortly and you shall find there some pleasant curiosities both for recreation and edification which may serve to exercise with delight the Fansy Iudgement and Memory A summary VIEW of the Substance and Method of the Book IN this little Treatise the first Part or Song describes a Sinners conversion bringing him thorow the pangs of the New-Birth and that partly by the Information of the Word by the Inspiration of the Spirit by Conviction of Conscience or Correction of Chastening Rods The first part I say shewes how CHRIST Converts and Reclaims a straying Sinner by some of these Means or by all Page 1. 2. The second Part or Song revives a fainting Soul struggling with the Pangs of the New-Birth or latly delivered from the Spirit of Bondage and that by Spiritual Cordials of Comfortable Promises P. 8. 3. The third Part or Song brings forth a Converted Sinner as it were to a New World transported with admiration and in a Triumphing Strein describing the wonderful Work of Mans Redemption how it was decreed and gradually revealed rejoycing in the Nativity of our Blessed SAVIOUR and chiefly describing His matchles Person and admirable Union of His two Natures P. 16. 4. The fourth Part or Song describes our Blessed SAVIOUR's threefold Office as King Priest and Prophet P. 24. 5. The fifth Part or Song describes our Blessed SAVIOUR's Types Titles and Attributs first in Order Alphabetical and then in a Table Logical or Philosophical P. 31 to 49. 6. Our Blessed and Glorious REDEEMER being in the former Songs described absolutly as he is in Himself Here He is described Comparatively and made infinitly to transcend and excell Men and Angels and all things else P. 49. to 59. 7. In the seventh Part or Song are holden forth the sweet Fruits of Redemption viz a Beleevers incomparable Blessings Comforts and Priviledges P. 59. 8. The eight Part or Song plainly discovereth a Beleevers Evidences and describeth all Christian Duties in testimony of Thankfulness and that both by Pattern and Precept P. 73 to 89. 9. The Epilogue or Appendix in the close containeth Devout and