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A97354	La scala santa, or, A scale of devotions musical and gradual being descants on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees, in metre : with contemplations and collects upon them, in prose, 1670.	Coleraine, Hugh Hare, Baron, 1606?-1667.; Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661. Gradi dell'anima. English.	1681 (1681)	Wing C5063; Wing L3069; ESTC R5066	58,459	102

the ASCENTS of the SOVL ASSENTS Psalmodia 1 Chron 15. Cap. Colloss 3.16.17 Design LA SCALA SANTA OR A Scale of Devotions MUSICAL and GRADUAL BEING DESCANTS ON THE Fifteen Psalms of Degrees IN METRE With Contemplations and Collects upon them IN PROSE 1670. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Epictet in Arrian Dissert lib. 1. cap. 17. LONDON Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford Anno Dom. 1681. THE MIND OF THE FRONTISPIECE GReatness and Piety combine To make the Psalmodist Divine Good Actions following pure Intents His Soul ASCENDS his God ASSENTS TO THE Right Honourable THE LEARNED AUTHOR A PINDARIQVE ODE I. ROuze up dull Quill and never Dormant lye Upon thy Cotton Pillow stiff and dry Useless and void of all Activity I 'le not disturb thy Rest To travel long in quest Of some impertinent Romance To Ape the fond or sighing Lover No for by chance I lately did discover In a fair view upon the Prospect-Land Greatness and Goodness walking hand in hand II. By the safe Conduct of a gentle Muse I trac'd a Royal Court Which led me to the Sacred Fort Where Strength and Beauty might amuse Fifteen Ascents of fair and precious Stone Not such as here are found Did mount me from the lower Ground To view a large and wond'rous Throne Whereon I spy'd a David and a Jonathan III. A Jonathan who whilom did employ His Quill to imp his Dart Whereby not to annoy Young Jesse's Heart But Love and needful Secrets to impart One who is able to engage With the Goliahs of the Age Those Debauchees who complement A Cloud and labour to entice The very Principles of Vertue into Vice With gaudy and prophane Embellishment Now for the wanton Fancy's sake Their Souls lye canker'd in the Rust Of Ease ill-manag'd now they make Greatness a Pander unto Lust If ever Prophecy did nick the Times David foresaw their * Scurrilis Cant. de Davide Bath non ita pridem compos Dytherambique Rhimes For when he counts his Injuries and Wrongs He adds * Psal 69.12 On me the Drunkards make their Songs IV. Oft have I seen the Sun's declining Light Drowsily nod down to the Lap of Night But when next Morn the Champion wakes For 't is not long he Dreams About the Globe's wide Lists a gallant Ring he takes Brandishing his Lance of Beams And when he manages a well-drest Ray The Night-Mare Sleep as frighted starts away Old Darkness is dismounted by the brisk young Day The World 's call'd up again and Men revive With a more strong assurance that they live Thus when the shades of Drollery possest The Seat where Virgin Muses once did rest When we despair'd that pious Lays Or useful Rhimes should e're more guild our Days A Star strangely propitious did appear Darting its Splendors from the wise Men's Hemisphere They'd much of Goodness much of heav'nly Grace As far as that can mix with humane Race And did portend the overthrow Of sordid Wit if that be Wit that some call'd so V. Their low-born Muse arm'd with Poetic Rage And License basely congeed to the Stage They trod mean Paths whose whole Design and Wit Could reach no farther than the Neighb'ring Pit When as your tow'ring Soul Leaving us beneath All humane Passions doth controul And mount into those Regions where Is nought but pure and subtle Air Where common Mortals cannot breath VI. Go on thou noble Hero who dost know The Paths of Honour and of Vertue too A Soul so Skilful so inur'd to Good Never proud Greek or Roman understood They only built a gaudy Theater Sacred to Vertue thou hast rais'd thy self to her Such a clean Lodging ev'ry Soul may boast Who bears the Temple of the Holy-Ghost Others for Pomp or Safety may provide Against their fatal Day A costly Dungeon or a Memphian Pyramid T' inclose their Souls too with their mould'ring Clay While by the Virtue of thy sacred Fire Decree'd not to expire Your Honour shall surviving Fame Live in a heav'nly Cone of Flame VII When I peruse the Comment and the Text Nothing I find so dubious or perplext * Tin 1.14 By Jewish Fables or Conceits of Men But your unerring Pen Dictator doth Commence And reconcile King David's sense With such Illustrations there As if thou wert his Privy-Counsellor Your Version modest and yet faithful too Shews what thou dost and able art to do VIII My Numbers must fall short of what is due To such pure Zeal and depth of Judgment too Fifteen Degrees Henceforth shall every Psalm Boast that it can Receive the Honour of thy skilful Name THE CHIEF MUSICIAN Then Pardon Sir if I aspire To kiss the lowest Step of your advanced Quire S. H. AD NOBILISSIMUM AUTHOREM JActitet immensi Salomonem Machina Templi Structorem Graduum te Chorus ipse canit * Stantia non poterant tecta probare Deos Mart. utpote Christus Templi Excidium praesagivit Illius obruitur moles operosa ruinâ Vim frustra his infers Vespasiane tuam Ficta Poetarum torpescant Numina quorum Gleba Sepulchralis Frigida Membra tegit Musarum Lymphis incassùm labra retingunt Ni prunam Linguis praebeat Ara suis Vestris aspirat caeptis Deus ille Deorum Et sic Divino jure Poeta cluis Te merito canimus aujus conscendere Scalam Laurea subrepens ambitiosa cupit Te miseret Plantae quoties tremebunda precatur Ut Paradisiacis insita vivat Agris O Dilecte Deo pergas tibi ut Orbis Honore Agnoscat nullum nec Pietate parem Oro ut dignêris Triviae Tentamina Musae Quâ placidâ semper Fronte videre soles For sitan insolitum videar compingere Carmen Scilicet appositè scribere causa vetat Honoris vestri obsequio deditissimus S. H. TO THE Most Illustrious And Serenest STELLA MADAM AS soon as Nature had awaked my Duty in the tender of its Devotion to Lucinda I was prompted by Justice as well as Love to lay my next Offering at Your Feet because I must avow to all the World that nothing hath that Ascendant over my Soul as Ye Two have who make my Passions high yet honest Ye are Twin-Stars of the first Magnitude so that I cannot shew Ye my Respects without advancing my Religion Your Piety encouraging that unto some nobler Effort while it instructs these in the most decent and humble ways of submitting my Desires to Heaven's acceptance first and then to Your Graces Madam You know I never yet approach'd You but with a Prayer or with Musick admiring the Divinity which still arrays Your Person the Imitation of your Holy and Harmonious Mind I think is Work for the most Excellent upon Earth as the Admiration of it is my chiefest pleasure and hath been the cause of publishing these the Essays of my younger time began about twenty years ago at my entrance into Your Service when I aim'd at nothing but God's Grace and Yours Madam The

intent of my first Affections would palliate their weaker Actings since as the strength of Zeal may still excuse some Errors the Daughter of Time is here with a Gift though the Daughter of Tyre be not in her Robes Here is no gentile Vanity or curious Texture of Wit no Colours of Rhetorick nor modish Points of Courtship to inveigle Your Opinion of the present Yet Madam here is that may well become Your Grace The most Angelike Dress in fashion upon Earth The way to pierce the Skies with Orisons and Praise The way to pass our Lives in truest Ease and Mirth I wish You like the making up of this Suit as it is with the truth of his Devotion and Service who is ready to wait upon You in his Holy-day habit both to Your Closet and to Our Church as MADAM The humblest and faithfullest of your Ministers THE PREFACE TO THE READER HAVING with much admiration and delight been long conversant with the Psalter I find as it is wisely appointed for the first Book that we read or study so it may fitly be used to the last minute of our Life and Breathing Luke 23.46 Psal 30.6 since our blessed Lord himself handed his Soul unto his Father in these words of the Psalmist And I never knew any condition how sad soever that might not receive some Entertainment Mat. 21.16 21.42 27.46 22.44 13.35 John 2.17 6.32 10.34 13.18 15.25 19.24 some Company and Discourse as well as Music and so some ease and relief from that glorious Book of the Psalms which is not only beautified by our Saviour his frequent use of it both living and dying but by the continual Services and best Devotion of all the Saints and Children of God For to say nothing of the Esteem it hath even in the Mahometan Religion there hath been no Church either of Jews or Christians nay scarce one eminent Person in either of those Churches Sixty Proofs cited out of the Psalms in the N. T. Psal 1.2 who hath not only allowed much time and attention but likewise shewn the greatest remarks of Piety and Zeal in the studious perusal thereof For these Spiritual Songs as all sacred Worship was of old wrapt up in Metre do with their most charming Melody and sweetness of Expression both set forth the Law of the Lord and the love of his Servants as on Mount Sion not on Sinai viz. in so lofty and taking a way as that surely they contain not only the Body and Substance but the Spirit and Quintescence the pleasant Tasts and best Relishes of our holiest Religion Besides the variety of Subjects and richness of each Theme serving as the Treasures of several Mines for the furnishing and rewarding both our fancies and labours with Materials sufficient to please to profit to enrich our Meditations So that truly 't is a ravishing and no less than Heavenly delight to hear the holy Persons of all Times and Ages like Birds in the Spring descanting on the self-same Subject but with such different Notes Melody and Accent as it is wonderful to observe while every one doth well in doing his best what rare Divisions are run by the joyning of so full a Consort Whilst the Music becomes more excellent by the admirable variety thereof This hath often set on work and satisfied my Thoughts with the Contemplation of our Eternal employ the praising of God in Heaven perhaps too in the Songs of David as well as of Moses since these were the Songs of the Lamb while he was here on Sion according to our best Capacities and Visions So that as the Angels envy not the Cherub for sitting higher or seeing more than they nor the Seraphim despise the Angels because these cannot reach the others Pitch in their mighty Raptures and heavenly Addresses for they are all in the same way though concerned in several degrees of Duty It is my opinion that no true Christian should be discouraged either by his own weakness or others greater Abilities from turning Psalmodist and helping the Quire with his Notes though they be of a harsher kind and flatter Key than many others which are used there because both in the Church here and that above he must sing the same which others do though it may be not with the same Elegance yet if his Heart be right and his Desires sincere though his Place and Parts may be inferiour to many his good Will and Intent shall afford joy satisfaction and bliss and secure him from the Censure of all others Nay he may suppose the Music and the Mirth of Saints to arise like the Flame from those lowest Coals of the Altar which lie obscurely in their Ashes and thence to ascend by the Degrees of the Sons of Fire to the top of their lofty Pyramid the Deity and from that Central Point again stream forth such Harmony and Delight as may reach and fill enflame and enlighten array and gild the whole Circumference of the Blest Eternity Therefore since he which hath the lowest Voice may bear a Part in Music we should neither contemn nor hinder their singing who cannot reach so high a strain as our selves but bear with or encourage rather than silence and disturb the Devotions of the weakest who may be more acceptable to God in their well-meaning than we are to Men in our finer expressions Upon this account I have often judged it expedient that Censure should be shut out of the Church Doors when any ones Verse or Music is brought within them and though we might be able to mend that which is there allowed yet we are rather to use than blame it because it is prescribed by such whom we must yield best able to discern what is fit for the public Worship which certainly differs from each Man 's private Devotions more than doth his Night-dress from the Habit he must wear at Noon-day So that though I might plead for Hopkin's and Sternhold's for the meanest Translation of the Psalms in our Parish Churches as Men do for some Customs and Fashions because countenanced by Authority and long Usage yet I would not from thence conclude that they are the best or that I must keep them in my own Closet or particular Devotions But as I will not refuse them publicly whilst commanded so I will not reproach them privately much less censure or deter others in their singular Industry who have not only design'd but attempted both to do better than the weakest Age of English Poetry and withall equal the strongest Reach of Sence and Expression that is found in the best Translators of the Psalms Amongst whom I would count two very late Authors Mr. S. W. Mr. M. S. who might be fancied the two Poles including a World of our Rithmical Paraphrasts and pretending something above them but that the one seems to be in the excess of Gaudiness and liberty of Fancy while the other is in the worse extream of meanness of Verse and want of plainness