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A33746	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	58,602	103

with the assistance of the Learned Hammond and De Muys I strive to sum up briefly as much of the sense as my Verse and Knowledge will give me leave to do Yet I cannot omit Buchanan's Version of this hard Sentence which is as singular as his Paraphrase elsewhere is excellent Fama licet Patriae multum promitteret orae Inter saxa tamen Sylvestribus obsita dumis Monstravit Deus ipse locum Deus ipse perenne Hic Templum Templique sacris sedem innuitaris Though Fame hath promis'd much to Judah 's Coast By the Ark's stay whereof our Towns may boast Yet God himself hath shown and we have found Old Prophecies which did at Bethlem sound Fulfill'd on woody Hills where the Ark stood Or where it was to stand high as a Wood. For the Woods of the Field or the Fields 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 Quam Terribilis est iste Locu● erit Bethel i. e. Domus Dei seu Domus Orationis Dixit Quandoquidem vidi h●c ipso in loco aedificatum iri Templum 2 Sam. 24.16 17. But I think it a fine Dream of the Rabbins who say 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 For Christmas day as it is appointed by the Church LOrd 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 1 Sam. 17.49 16.16 2 Sam. 6.19.6.16.6.21 And Gifts and Musick doth afford Though he did right 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 2 Sam. 7.2 'Till the Ark rests on Zion's Hill And from its * Tabernacula Curtains comes to † Vsus est numero multitudinis ad plures Templi partes indicandas nam in Templo inquit Kimchi erant Domus tres Courts 1 Sam. 19.15 16. 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 My Bed shall yield me no more † Tandem tam longè abest ut ego sim dormiturus ut ne oculis quidem rictaturus sim Rest Than when 't was searched for no good 1 Chron. 13.5 6. 'Till here with ours God's Seat is found Being with lofty Cedars crown'd Instead of Kiriath-jearim's Wood. For in the Woods we lately found Joys 1 Sam. 7.1 which to Abram's Hill may sound Gen. 22.13 1 Sam. 16.1 Mic. 5.2 When God shall there be seen again As first at Bethlem we did

with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as being sung with loud and frequent Responses by the Levites at the erecting and re-edifying of the Temple and therefore intended by me 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as an Anthem for the Day of a Nativity or Baptism For Shrove-Tuesday or a Wedding TIL God the House doth build and Fa mily maintain Workmen tho' ne're so strong or skill'd La bour a las in vain Fa ther 's get Sons in vain in vain the Watchmen ward our Gates un less the Lord or dain his Host to be our Guard In vain a Life we keep Rise early late take Rest Fare hardly For I take it with the 72 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when others take pains with care to provide for their Families God's Beloved thrive better and yet do not so much as lose their sleep or rest in pursuit of thòse enjoyments which others incessantly toyl for This shews the vanity of our Solicitude as the other sence viz. so he gives speaks God's Blessing of honest Labour whereby he brings Rest and makes both it and what else got by Labour pleasant according to Eccless 5.11 lose our loved Sleep 'Till God our Stock hath blest But they whom God hath blest Like Job regain their Peace Nempe Dilectis Domini viz. Jedidiah's such as Solomon God gives his Jedidiahs Rest And with their Rest Encrease Look All Children are given as an Inheritance passing from the Father of Heaven to us not purchased by our own Ability but the Wise and Good are more than David's pleasant and goodly Heritage for they are also a Reward as here and a Crown especially such as are born to us in our stronger and youthful Age who may be grown up and able to give advice and assistance and ready at hand to help or adorn as Arrows in the Quiver of an Archer so that we may go in or out of the Gates of our House City or Lie with honour and safety and speak either with Friends or Foes strong or great the Judge or General Whether it be in public in the sight of all as Aben Ezra construes in Portâ or whether it be in the place where the People assemble where the Nobles meet where the Thrones are set the Prophets prophecy the Right is pleaded the Guards are kept the Soldiers stand and the Judges fit as they did formerly in the Gate Vide Ruth 4.1 1 King 22.10 2 King 7.20 Judg. 9.52 c. ev'n our best Encrease Ruth 4.13 Gen. 30.2 Children come from the Lord Those Fruits of th'Womb which some may guess Man's Work are God's Reward Children both give and Ward A blow for though but young To Parents they 're a double Guard Like Weapons to the Strong Those Shafts help against wrong Life against Death provide Like Jonathan's they home are flung To shield our threaten'd fide Happy the Man whose side Bears Quivers of such Arms For wheresoe're his Cause is try'd He 's quit of Shame and Harms Thus we whom God hath Blest Like Job regain our Peace Since God gives his Beloved Rest And with our Rest encrease Gloria Patri c. To God the Father Son And God the Holy-Ghost Be Glory and let every one Strive who shall praise God most HOSANNA CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Eighth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The GXXVII PSALM GRacious Father who workest hitherto as thy Son also worketh look upon us thy Workmanship make us thy Building who as lively Stones well wrought and figured would be built up a Spiritual House unto thee And we know except thy Divine Wisdom thus frame and raise us bearing up the Pillars of our Strength hewing out the Stones of our hard Hearts to be polished Corners of thy Temple we shall prove but sorry Tabernacles but foolish Builders and Labourers in vain For who amongst us can say that he hath made his Heart clean Who can come to the Rock to lay a good Foundation except it be given him from above Or who can keep himself so clean as that the foul and wicked Spirit touch him not nor enter in again after he hath been cast out of a Man except thou O Lord who art stronger than the Enemy dost watch and defend the House of the poor Soul Thou must work all our Works in us and for us for without thee we can do nothing O therefore raise strengthen stablish and compleat us thou glorious Solomon thou who must edifie us by thy Apostles and Teachers and instruct us how to be Temples for thy holiest Spirit and the Heritage of the Lord for evermore We must acknowledge that our best Skill and carefullest Actions our Watchings and Fastings our Righteousness and Charities are as Stones which thou O Master Builder mightest refuse being fit for nothing but to debase and throw us down to Hell affording us no prop or safe reliance upon them 'T is thou alone O truest Jedidiah that foundest thy beloved Church upon the Corner-Stone of Faith which edifies with joy and peace with rest and firmness in believing So build us up we beseech thee and watch over our Souls that we may not be found to have watch'd or to have work'd to have instructed our Hearts to have cleansed our Hands in vain but to have done the Work and compleated the Task which thou hast appointed us to do by edifying both our selves and others in our most holy Faith We throw our selves Lord Jesus on thy gentlest Bosom of Compassions to be regarded and instructed by thee and trust that we are not Judas's whilst we eat of thy Bread and drink of thy Cup but shall be unto thee Sons and Daughters such an Inheritance as may be the Crown of thy Rejoycing the purchase of thy Labours the proof of thy Power the Arrows in thy Quiver with which thou mayest triumphantly come to the Almighty and say Behold me and the Children which thou hast given me Let not thine Arms be full or weary dear Lord 'till thou hast enclosed our Souls within them and made us so the Children of thy strength as that we may be able to come with boldness to the Throne of Grace and neither be affrighted when we meet with our Enemies in the Gate of Death nor when we shall speak with our Accuser and our Judge at the great Tribunal of the last day From the various Proofs of thy tenderness over thy Flock in giving them repose and comfort and blest content in the midst of their hard fare hard work and harder want O skilful Shepherd of our Souls let us learn to cast our Care upon thee for our protection and provision for thy presérvation of our Persons and propagation of our Families and if thou carest for us we need take no more care than Abraham did for God will provide for us for our Off-spring for our chief Good and for his Glory The Lord shall build his David a House and he will be an exceeding great Reward even above that of the

Mansion for us even in thy House O Father And with us be mindful of all Degrees amongst us from David upon the Throne to Job upon the Dunghill be good unto them in all their Cares Vows Prayers Devotions and Afflictions according to the multitude of thy most tender Mercies and comfortable Promises Let the King rejoyce in thy strength O Lord and do thou make his Power to flourish and his Righteousness to blossom like the Rod of Aaron ordain a lustre of Honour and Happiness for him and his House for evermore let not his Candle go out in obscurity nor quench the Light of Israel but let his Enemies be inveloped with disgrace and disappointments and cloath thy Priests and our Church of England with Honour Prosperity and perfect Redemption that the Horn of David may bud amongst us and the Power of 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 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 Psalm as the next 1 Sam. 18. 2 Sam. 1. 2 Sam. 3. 2 Sam. 10. 9. 18. c. 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 Zorchabel 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 For Saint George's or All-Saints Day BE hold how plea sant ' t is 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 Judg. 14.14 strong and sweet 'T is thus to see Men's Hearts and Hands As Jonathan's and David's meet 1 Sam. 18.3 Twisting together in Love's Bands When Prince and People so are one As that the Oyl 2 Sam. 19.39.5.3.19.23 pour'd on his Head 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 Blessings Judg. 6.38 39. Vide Hammond as numberless as Drops Which from Mount Sion deck the Town 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