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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

when never so closely begirt by Adversaries They can still look up nay go up to the Hill of Sion from whence comes their help even to Jesus the Author and finisher of their Faith who not only pitched the forces of his Word and Miracles but the red Standard of his Cross and the first Camp of his Martyrs and Apostles upon the Hills of Jerusalem to Convoy all Comers to the City of our God and to draw all to him from the Center of the World Oh therefore let neither the Rod nor the Staff of the Wicked be laid or lest upon my score or part lest I do or suffer the evil of Sinners but let thy Rod and thy Shepherds Staff both thy Cross and mine dear Jesu comfort and fill up my Cup and make mine Heritage and Lot like thine For then it shall be good and thou that art so ever wilt do good to me making and keeping me upright in Heart clean in my Hands single in mine Eye of Faith and sound in the Feet of mine Affections steady in the ways of thy Commandments Lord if thy hand be not graciously when most heavily upon me how soon may I put forth my hand unto wickedness like Cam Pharaoh Balaam Achan and Jeroboam and like Judas Ananias and Simon Magus This makes me yet pray more earnestly that Christ may still pray for me since he that Christ prays for shall believe aright and he that so believes shall not find upon his lot the Scepter of Unrighteousness the Rule of Satan the Domination of Sin the Rod of the Wicked the Guilt or Punishment of Reprobates Oh then that my lot and last end may be in the Righteousness of Jesus my Lord that I may not fall presumptuously nor fear greatly nor be driven forth with evil doers but be led forth into the Paths of Peace into the straight way that leads to life there to taste of the Brook in the way the quiet and sufficiency thou affordest thy Flock here and to drink of the Rivers of thy Pleasures hereafter to lye down like thy Sheep in the green Pastures of Hope in the never fading never failing enclosure of thine Arms and to rise in Glory with thine Inheritance for evermore Amen THE SEVENTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXVI PSALM Is thought to be composed by Esdras or some of that time after the Babylonish Bondage because in the first part of the Psalm it joyfully Celebrates the Return of some as in the second part heartily wishes the Restoration of all the rest of the Captivity from the Land of the North as the Realm of Babylon is called Jer. 13.19 20. Jer. 16.19 in regard of its site to Judea making that apt and excellent resemblance of them to Strcams running into the dry and desolate parts of the South which must needs be very welcome there and are said to flow thither as Torrents in great abundance upon the melting of the Snows and producing of Showers by the South Wind So that whether you take נגב for the South Wind or South part of the World the comparison may hold to either acceptation of the Word very full and elegant The Jews flocking Southwards home but not all together as the Spirit of God moved on the Waters in Babylon in the Days of Cyrus Darius and Xerxes stirring up Zerubbabel Ezra Nehemiah and others to bring back the Hebrews restore Religion rebuild the Temple and repair Jerusalem which had been demolished and burnt by Nebuzaradan in the fifth Month 2 Kin. 25.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in that same Month about Harvest time was the Return of the Jews with Ezra c. 7. v. 9. who had been led away Captive at their Sowing time Therefore the Simile of the Husbandman here was rarely apposite both to the occasion of their Joy and season of the Year and their manner of Exaltation This PSALM is very proper for our 23d of April and 29th of May or any such happy Time of recovery from Trouble Danger and Oppression AFTER the long Night of a State so dark as ours so de╌so╌late who could so much as Dream that we should wake out of Cap╌ti╌vi╌ty But when God took that Plague a╌way that E╌gypt which on Si╌on lay our Pangs like Dreams a╌way did fly and we had safe de╌li╌ve╌ry Pleas'd and transported with our Change By a Recovery so strange As Cripples cur'd by Wonders we Acts 3.9 Soon got both Strength and Liberty Soon we got well well home and found Grief did no Soul no Body wound But Hearts and Tongues in Psalms agree And they got Feet as well as we Then both our Chains and Silence broke Then Pagans too the Truth thus spoke The Lord hath done great things for ye The Lord hath done so answer'd we Therefore God's Works with joy we tell Which may convince the Infidel And call up Pray'rs for such as be Not yet return'd from Slavery O! were our Friends our Foes and all Redeem'd from their Egyptian Thrall From Satan and from Sin set free How welcome were their Liberty Welcom as Nilus in the South And sweet as Show'rs in days of Drouth For all with us we long to see Reap Mirth who plough'd in Misery Sure Lord thy Lab'rers in the heat Who take the pains shall tast the Wheat 2 Thes 3.7 8 9. And may with shouts receive from thee A Largess of Prosperity We who dropt little hopes in Tears When driven hence by Foes or Fears Now loaded back with Solace see Rich Incomes from Captivity Thus the poor Seeds-man sadly goes Eundo ibit flendo port●●s pretlum semlnis pretlosum ob caricaiem While on the ground his Wealth he strows But when the Harvest Crowns him he Jogs home with Sheaves and jollity Veniendo veniet cum ex●● sat●●● So they who shed a few small Tears I' th' Seed-time of their Hopes and Fears Shall glad Returns from Sadness see And shock up more Felicity Nay he that goes from hence and bears To Earth his Dust to Heav'n his Tears Shall find those precious Grains to be Vast Crops in blest Eternity Gloria Patri c. In the Lord's Praise let none be dumb But Father Son and Ghost adore Who was and is and is to come Thrice Blessed God for evermore CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Seventh PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXVI PSALM O Most dear Redeemer Jesus who wouldest be the Lord our Righteousness we must confess thou mightest justly become our Enemy as Joseph's Brethren became his Foes because of the multitude of our Dreams those vain conceits of Happiness which have been trusted and lean'd upon though but Egyptian Reeds have greatly merited thy Punishment and our farther deceptions We have deserved to be most terribly mistaken like the hungry wretch who dreams he eats but he awakes and behold he is faint and the more afamisht Thus are our Souls but the more starved by those Visions of the Night those short unsatisfying pleasures those