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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

of the Wood may be taken as for the House of Aminadab in the Hill of Kiriathjarim which was a City in a woody place from whence David and all Israel fetch'd the Ark from the House of Obed-Edom So for the City of Jerusalem and especially the Mount Moriah which was a close Covert in Abraham's time witness the Ram caught in the Thicket and was afterwards more adorned with Wood when the Temple was built thereon This being frequently by the Prophets called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Wood as Bethlechem the place of Bread is also called Ephratah viz. Fruitful It was the City of David where he might learn from his pious Ancestors that neither Silo nor Gibeon nor Nob but Moriah which was a part of Mount Sion and here by way of Eminency bears the name of the whole Hill should be the chief place of worshipping the Mighty God of Jacob. God is so called here because he calls himself the Almighty Gen. 35.10 11. Gen. 49.24 Gen. 28.20 when he named Jacob Israel and Jacob first calls God so and is the first of all the Patriarchs who is mentioned to have vowed a Vow as the most ancient Rabbi Abahu notes Non dicitur vovit forti Abraham aut forti Isaac sed forti Jacob quod primus omnium vovit Jacob votum dicendo c. Dicendo quid Dicendo omnibus seu docendo omnes vovendum esse in Calamitatibus But I think it a fine Dream of the Rabbins who say Quam Terribilis est iste Locu erit Bethel i. e. Domus Dei seu Domus Orationis Dixit Quandoquidem vidi hôc ipso in loco aedificatum iri Templum 2 Sam. 24.16 17. Jacob is here mentioned because in his sleep when he saw those Degrees which reach'd Heaven he had a Vision of the Temple that Solomon built and being amazed at the Majesty thereof speaks of it and not of Bethel And David as they say made the Vow mentioned in this Psalm when the Plague was stayed at the Threshing-Floor of the Jebusite and notice given him where the Temple should be built as I have noted before Thus much may suffice by way of Argument because I have wrote more in Annotations upon this Psalm it being the longest and most difficult of my undertaking Therefore I would be excused by the more Critical and Learned Reader if the pains I took do neither please nor profit him in the full understanding or explaining the sense hereof because these Notes were not intended to nauseate the public with Crambes but to inform those who are of as low rank in knowledge as my self Having put the word Shechinah in the Margin of my Verses I was once asked why I did so Therefore I here give the reason because I look on that Petition of the Psalmist in the tenth Verse Janus-like with two Faces and most fit for Solomon to make who built both the Temple and a place on purpose to worship towards the holiest of Holies as if he had in this manner uttered his Mind O! let me never prove so Idolatrous as to turn away to other Gods from this place of Worshipping towards thy holy Temple toward the Shechinah the special place of thy Presence nor let me prove so rejected by thee as in thine Anger to be cast out from before thee but do thou impower me here to make thy Presence and to meet with thy Favours in my Worship and Adoration of thee Then I have doubly render'd the last Verse because of the fulness of the Word Induam I 'le cloath or put on or throw on as the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Retiarii did their Nets over the Secutores i. e. publickly in the sight of all Men by covering and overwhelming them to disgrace and destroy them And this Induam is put in opposition to the cloathing of such Men Vers 9 10. who having Truth and Righteousness visibly about them as it were their Rayment shall be manifestly preserved and adorned thereby as Judges by their Robes through the over-ruling Providence and Tuition of the Almighty LOrd For Christmas day as it is appointed by the Church think on him whom thou didst find the Man ac╌cor╌ding to thy Mind who could for thee with all things part With his Wives love and his own State that on thy Ser╌vice he might wait Remember Da╌vid's humble Heart Think on his Hand that brings thee Praise Strikes down thy Foes ill Spirits lays And Gifts and Musick doth afford 1 Sam. 17.49 16.16 Though he did right 2 Sam. 6.19 6.16 6.21 he had much wrong Ev'n while he brought thy Ark along Remember David's Troubles Lord. Think on the King and on his Care Who for thy Place did well prepare Lord Bless his Heir 1 Chr. 22.3 4.5 28.14 5. 2. 15.1 build up his House He would have set and trimm'd up thine Lord bless our acting his Design Remember David and his Vows Thus said he 2 Sam. 5.9 when he took his Oath To Jacob's God I plight my Troth Though I am safe in my new Forts I will not sleep nor there sit still 'Till the Ark rests on Zion's Hill 2 Sam. 7.2 And from its * Tabernacula Curtains comes to † Vsus est numero multitudinis ad plures Templi partes indicandas nam in Templo inquit Kimchi crant Domus tres Courts My House though built shall not be * It shall not be Dedicated and so not dwelt in 'till Consecrated as the Jews did ever some part of their House for special Worship Blest 1 Sam. 19.15 16. My Bed shall yield me no more † Tandem tam longè abest ut ego sim dormiturus ut ne oculis quidem mictaturus sim Rest Than when 't was searched for no good 'Till here with ours God's Seat is found 1 Chron. 13.5 6. Being with lofty Cedars crown'd Instead of Kiriath-jearim's Wood. For in the Woods we lately found 1 Sam. 7.1 Joys which to Abram's Hill may sound When God shall there be seen again Gen. 22.13 1 Sam. 16.1 Mic. 5.2 As first at Bethlem we did hear How glorious all his Goings were Up to the Mountams from the Plain And while God comes with the glad Throng Cant. 2.8 Rev. 14.1 Psal 114.4 In ev'ry place we hear this Song See see where our Beloved goes That he may stand on Sion still Look how he leaps from Hill to Hill And makes us skip for joy like Roes Come John 2.22 let 's to Sion march along In order lest we Worship wrong After the Ark our Course is bent Numb 10.33 35 36. We 'll worship with the solemn Cries Rise Lord unto thy Rest arise Rise to a Temple from a Tent. The Train shall shout 1 Chr. 15.27 and so will I The Choir shall raise their Voices high The Priests shall shew the Sanctity Both of thy Person and their Place By being cloath'd with Righteousness

Godliness shoot forth every where in our Land in the great City in Princes Courts and in thy House and ours so that thou mayest have Mercy on Zion and repair the breaches of thy Jerusalem while she that sate Disconsolate as a Widow may now be feasted with Bread from Heaven with the Manna of Divine Ordinances duly administred so that no Soul amongst us may go empty away but that even he who gathers least may have no lack Exod. 16.18 Lord thou canst make thy holy Viands like David's Provision at the Passover be dealt so plentifully to every one as that none shall be unprovided for or ashamed who depend like Ruth upon thy Bounty but they who despise thee shall be wrapt up in Confusion as in a Cloak Therefore let thy Servants joy in thy Salvation and all our People know the Lord acknowledging his Goodness and his Bounty that blesses the Abundance of the Rich and fills the Hungry with good things that both may have Bread enough and neither want nor repine but seek their Food of God while he makes those that depart wickedly from him to continue in shame and scarcity Ah! that we may stand in a we and not sin lest we inherit the promotion of Fools instead of the Kingdom and Crown of David so provide for us gracious Master in every state and condition as may seem best to thy God-like Wisdom and prove most to thine Eternal Glory if not to ours O! Our Father c. THE FOURTEENTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXXIII PSALM Was composed by David as some think at his Coronation 2 Sam. 5. 1 Chr. 1. 2 Pet. 1.7 1 Sam. 17.29 1 Sam. 18. 2 Sam. 1. 2 Sam. 3. 2 Sam. 10. 9. 18. c. after his eight years Civil War to exhort the People to Love and Amity according to the exhortation of the Apostle for those were the Graces which did most adorn his Life both when a public and a private Person and so this Psahn as the next was fitted for the most Solemn Times of Worship and the happy Return from Bondage and Captivity because it magnifies the pious Accord Uniformity and Blessed Communion of the Church of God in all Times It Celebrates the Excellencies of Love both in and towards God and Man it reflects much Joy from the Consideration of the Mystical Union between Christ and his Members whom he owns as Brethren who shall live and live together also with him though he is their High Priest Rock and Prince according to the most apt Comparisons of the holy Oyl and high-born Dew which Similies In Zorobabel and Joshua Types of the Messiah as well as the Subject were so well calculated to the Time when there was a Prince and an High Priest restored again to Israel that it is no wonder we find it placed among the Graduals Some apply it to all the Israelites Love one towards another who were Brethren of the same Stock as we are all in Adam and likewise to their Love of their Ruler who was higher than the rest as was shewn in Saul like Mount Hermon and Sion more advancing than other Hills Therefore to animate us with the like affections towards our Brethren Parents and Superiours they say the Priest's Blessing is compared to the Sacred Oyl and the Prince's Favour to the fruitful Dew according to that expression of the Wisest of Kings which descends from the highest to the lowest and is both pleasant and profitable to all Prov. 19.12 as the Heathen Poet Meander once quoted by St. Paul himself could say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some of the Rabbins think it a particular Eulogy of the Concord and Conformity among the Priests in their Religious Exercises and therefore mention is made of Aaron the most Anointed of the Lord as he may be termed rather than chief Anointed because most Oyl was expended on him BE╌hold how plea╌sant ' t is For Saint George's or All-Saints Day how good But O! how rare and hard to find Brethren of the same House and Blood be╌come of the same way and mind Like Sampson's Honey strong and sweet Judg. 14.14 'T is thus to see Men's Hearts and Hands As Jonathan's and David's meet Twisting together in Love's Bands 1 Sam. 18.3 When Prince and People so are one As that the Oyl pour'd on his Head 2 Sam. 19.39 5.3 19.23 Down to the lowest Limb doth run In Grace and Peace and Pardon spread 'T is like the precious Ointment shed Levit. 8.12 Upon the High Priest's hallow'd Crown Which both perfum'd his Beard and Head And thence upon his Clothes fell down Thus have I seen Clouds big with Rain First give their Dews to all the Hills And then show'r Wealth on the low Plain As Friendship benefits distills On Friendship 's Fleece God's Love brings down Judg. 6.38 39. Blessings as numberless as Drops Which from Mount Sion deck the Town Vide Hammond And cloath the Fields from Hermon's Tops As to the Vale these Mountains are So to the Weak the Potent prove Useful and kind though distant far Yet center'd like the World by Love For all our Comforts come from Love By Love God gives the Happy Life That Blest below and best above There without end here without strife Gloria Patri Glory to him who makes our Bliss To the one God in Persons three As in beginning was now is And shall be to Eternity AMEN CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Fourteenth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXXIII PSALM O Blessed Father who hast made many of us of one Blood and Kind O blessed Saviour who hast made us many of one Bread and one Lump O blessed Spirit who art the Love both of the Father and of the Son shed this abroad into all our Hearts abundantly look upon us graciously O thou only one most loving and pitying Lord God! that we may look upon thee better though it be but darkly at the best in that Sea of Glass before the Throne in that clearest mirror and reflection of thy favour to Mankind to wit in Christ incarnate in whom God is most wonderfully wisely and kindly seen to reconcile the World what is that but Vileness Vanity and Vexation Frailty and a Curse unto himself that Man might be far more able than he was by the Glasses and Laver of the Tabernacle both to see his Spots and Pollutions to get clean from them and that God might be consider'd and admired not so much in the broken Glass of Nature nor in the blotted Book of the Creature which shew us his power and greatness as in the Face of a Redeemer in the Testament of the holy Jesus which most plainly and yet most gloriously speaks thy Love and Goodness and calls for ours since if thou hast so loved this naughty World and us that help to make it worse how ought we to love thee and also to love one another O how good as well as how