alone foyled vanquished at once a huge army of the proud Senacherib Wherefore auant you hellish troops packe hence away fly vnto those darkesome vaults There is none of you that dares abide before the Tower of the hart where the armes of the Supreame Numen are now set vp in sight whereof the Angelical squadrons stand in battle array where not only horrour and dread but immâ—nent most present ruine waits vpon you For death himself at the sight only of the Crosse turnes his back sinne also takes his flight a long with him and both togeather with thâ—ir common Captain Sathan the deuil in great dispaire tumble headlong in the lowest Hel. XI MEDITATION The preparatory Prayer Actiones nostras c. THE PRELVDE Pvâ—â—â— as a signe vpon thy harâ— Be thou as wax for euery forme I vvil be the seale and imprint the armes of my passion in thee 1. Point In the coÌ„quered vaÌ„quished Tower of the hart the victorious Iesus placeth the trophies triumphs of his passion forsooth as Lord and Master of the place least any one hereafter may chance to chalenge it to himself or seek to inuade it 2. Point There can be no such force or power of teÌ„ptations which vvith the liuely appreheÌ„sion of these armes may not vtterly be defeated no aduersity so great which may not cheerfully be borne no such alluremeÌ„ts of worldly pleasures which with a generous loathing may not be reiected 3. Point How happy the soule which is nayled with Christ vpoÌ„ the Crosse how rich while vnder that wood are found to be the riches of Heauen earth how defensible secure against al the power of Hel being the imprenable Tovver of Christians whereon a thousand targets hang the whole armary of the stroÌ„g either to endure the shock of the enemyes or to assaile them THE COLLOQVY SHal be made by turniÌ„g the speach by way of Apostrophe to al the symbols of Christs Passion as nailes lance vvhips and also vnto Christ himself crauing most earnestly of him as wel to conserue in our minds the memory of those things which he hath suffred for our sakes as to admit vs into the society and communion of his most bitter chalice that we may also merit one day to enioy our part of glory eternal felicity Pater Aue. THE HART CONSECRATED TO THE loue of IESVS is a flourishing garden THE HYMNE IESVS thy power and gratious wil Is alwayes drawing good from il And life from death and ioy from grones And Abrahams childreÌ„ makâ—st of stones Behold a quick-set is my hart With thornes and bryars on euery parte One drop of bloud alone thou shedst Wil make a rose wheres'er thou treadst Oh may my hart sweet odours breath Of vertue Ah! thy thorny wreath That pearâ—'d into thy brayne made red And parple roses on thy head Then for my sinnes that I may mourne With roses grant a pricking thorne THE INCENTIVE 1. IF IESVS be in thy hart thou needst not feare the vnlucky accidents of man's life for he of very thornes makes sweetest roses 2. The most sweet odour of the white ruddy rose which IESVS is recreates and refreshes men and Angels kils the rauenous fowles Hence when the hart with IESVS is beset and closed in with roses sinne and the deuil get them far enough for they cannot abide the smel of them 3. Wilt thou be a soft couch wherein litle IESVS may like to repose and rest in let the Hart be crown'd with the roses of vertues with the snowy flower of innocence with the purple of patience and breath the frangrancy of true deuotion Here IESVS feedes here he sleepes THE PREAMBLE to the Meditation Ovr litle bed is flourishing our garden likewise is al beset with flowers Here the sweet smelling balme exhales an odoriferous breath here amid the snowes of lillyes the rose-grow al purple here Cinamon with safron cassia mixed with mirrh haue a fragrant odour with them there is nothing here that breathes not admirable sweetenes to the smelling Come therefore O loue of my hart my beloued that feedst among the lillyes who delightst in flowers come into the sweet delicious bed or rather if thou wilt walke the spacious allyes of the orchard and in the walkes Oh my Sun dart those fruitful rayes of thine eyes and with thy sweetest breath more gentle then Zephirus inspire an odoriferous soule into the flowers wherewith my hart being hedg'd in like garden-plot euen smiles vpon thee Here the humble violet fairer for her lownes euen wooes thee with her soothing flatteryes the higher sending her odours as she stoopes the lower a noble symbol of a lowly mind which vertue as a first begotten daughter thou hast kissed from the cradle and tenderly embraced Here the lilly rising somewhat higher from the ground amidst the whitest leaues in forme of a siluer cup shewes forth her golden threads of safron in her open bosome a noble Hierogrisike of a snowy mind a candid purity and a cleane hart which now long since haue been thy loues for hence that strange obsequiousnes of thine in those thy yonger dayes seeking and complying so with thy Virgin-Mother Here now besides the pourpourrizing rose the flower of Martyrs dyed with the sanguine tincture of their bloud represents that incredible loue which put thee o loue piously cruel and nayled thee on the Crosse so as it is lesse to be wondered it should dare so afterwards to cast the martyrs into flaming furnaces into cauldroÌ„s of melted lead into burning fires with liuing coales load them with Crosses gibbets punishments and take away those actiue soules which yet these generous and noble Champions very willingly lay'd downe of their owne accord Here also that bitter mirrh but bitter now no more whose chiefe force consists in preseruing bodyes from corruption distils those first teares of hers more bitter then the later ones that follow after but so much sweeter as more powerful This shewes and represents those teares sighes pressures labours which thy dearlings Confessours MoÌ„ks Anchorites haue taken voluntarily vpon theÌ„ while in the doubtful course of this life the pious Pilgrims hyed them to the heauenly countrey But O most sweet IESVS to rauish thee aboue the rest with admiration and his loue the heliotropion of my hart that flower the genuine image of the Sun conuerts it-self to thee whom therefore so assiduously it followes for hauing so from nature such a hidden force and sympathy with that eye of the world the parent of al light In this flower doe nestle harts enflamed with thy loue whose voyce is euen the very same with that of thy Spouse My beloued to me and I to him Deliciate thy self then IESV the delight of my hart amidst these amenityes of flowers and from those fragrant odoriferous garden beds let the blessed Spirits thy companions weaue them coâ—onets delightful garlands more pleasing I dare say to thy diuine Maiesty then
THE DEVOVT HART OR ROYAL THRONE OF THE PACIFICAL Salomon Composed by F. St. Luâ—uic S. I. Translated out of Latin into English Enlarged with Incentiueâ— by F. St. Binet of the same 〈◊〉 and now enriched with Hymnes by a new hand Printed by Iohn Cousturier 1634. TO THE R. WORTHY AND VERTVOVS COVPLE W. STANDFORD ESQ r AND ELIZABETH his wife MY DEAREST I heer present you with a HART not fram'd of flesh and bloud the seat and citadel of the vital spirits but the image of a HART fully fraught with pious and amorous affects a hart not in idaea but liuely deciphered with deuout Embleams Pictures as Symonides saith are silent Poesies and Poesies speaking pictures Both the one and the other are heer exhibited to your viewes accompanyed with deuout Meditations where euery title speakes but the loue of IESVS If you eye wel and marke these silent Poesies giue care to these speaking pictures but chiefly make vse of the Meditations in the repose of your recollected thoughts you wil proue by a happy experience how proper they are to rayse a soule to a soueraigne aspiration of diuine things The Authours Preface points you forth his scope and his whole discourse displayes it better to which I referre you and my self and labours heerin to your more fanourable acceptation that could not be satisfyed but with thus expressing and professing my selfe to al the world to be Your most obliged and deuoted H. A. TO THE AMOROVS AND DEVOVT HARTS TO IESVS I Present you my HARTS most deare to Iesus with a wounded HART enflaâ—ed al with diuine loue This is the Royal Throne of your Spouse the Pacifical Salomon the Sanctuary wherin God would haue perpetual Sacrifice to be offred the Tower which IESVS hath taken to defend against al hostile inuasion which being wrongfully vsurped and sacrilegiously profaned he recouers purgeth expiates then takes and coÌ„secrates for his Palace Temple and Tribunal Here Iesus exercises his commands here he raignes here he teacheth here cutting off al demurres of appeales he pronounceth sentence of eternal predestination or reprobation here he rayseth thunders and lightnings here sweetly dartes he rayes of light not vsually seen in this sublunary Globe Finally I offer here the HART the heauen and Court of the supreame Moderatour of soules But why especially to you Surely I should thinke this guift could be no-where held in more esteeme or taken for a greater fauour then by you whom I know wel to be not only singularly trayned vp and exercised in these diuiner things but so ardently affected to them as that you set by the loue of this one IESVS more then al the graces and fauours of Kings Princes in the world Since in your soules the Crosse of Christ and loue of holy pouerty is deeper and more strongly imprest then al those mushrumps of honours that pelf of riches those Grand-Sires seales and famous images of old then al those goods so commonly called which men of your ranck and quality either easily promise to themselues or more ambitiously hunt after I present to you a breife Table wherin speaking with modesty I haue succâ—nctly delineated in short points of meditations the summe of al Christian perfection and that meerly for your sakes and the rest who thinke and loue the same with you where no sooner shal you fix your eyes on that image of Diuine loue how il pourtraicted soeuer with a ride pencil but you shal easily discerne I â—ow a liuely Image truly represented of al those faire and goodly vertues you haue formed in your mindes and shal find no doubt by what wayes and degrees the diuine goodnes hath led you to the top of this Mount from whence remayning yet on earth you may contemplate euen heauen it-self that land of promise and blessed inheritance of the children of God and where you haue the most calamitous regions of the vnfortunate Aegypt and Babylon the mother of confusion not only subject to your eyes but trod vpon and trampled vnder-foot Accept then my soules most deare to heauen this guift such as it is not regarding so much the hand which giues as the giuers hart For my part I haue but dipt as I may say my finger in the hony-combs which here lye hid in certayne figures and Images as folded vp in wax but the Holy Ghost I trust wil copiously deriue the purest hony thence and consequently open the very fountaines of nectar it-self and most aboundantly dew your minds with showers of diuine graces so doe I hartily vow so wish remayning Your most humble and obedient seruant in Christ. STEVEN LVZVIC THE HART CONSECRATED to the loue of IESVS THE HYMNE IESV behold the hart dilates It-selfe to thee and consecrates It 's triple power and al within But oh that heauy burden sinne Drawes to the earth and makes it fal From high aspiring thoughts Not al Who now support giue it repose Thou art the Atlas here enclose Thy selfe within the hart giue rest To it which otherwise opprest With the heauy load the world sinks down Make it despise to gaine a crowne The earth it 's Nathir and with thee It 's Zenith make Eternity THE INCENTIVE 1. WHere our treasure is there is our hart IESVS is a treasure wherin our hopes our riches and al we haue are lodged laid vp in store Where then shal we better place the hart then in the hart the Reliquary of the diuinity it-self at IESVS feet the most sure Altar of the miserable in his hands the richest Magazin of al graces 2. Loe here a hart burning al with loue how many and what flames it sends forth like a furnace Happy thrice happy he who but for Heauen hath no loue no hart at al 3. Goe to then al you pious and sincere harts come and consecrate your selues to the honour and loue of IESVS For to whom better since what we pay to him we allow our selues and what we take from him we quite forgoe and loose for euer THE PREAMBLE TO THE first Meditation WHo shal seuer vs from the charity of Christ exclaymes that great Apostle tribulation or distresse or famine or nakednesse peril persecution or the sword Sure I am that death nor life nor Angels nor Principaâ—es nor vertues nor present nor future things nor fortitude altitude nor depth nor any other creature can seperate vs from the charity of God which is in Christ IESVS This is the fire which gliding from heauen consumes al things burnes al things yea enkindles such flames as euen the Ocean of euils wherewith the flowes aboundes cÌ„a not quenchit This subtil actiue spreading and deuouring flame takes force vigour euen from very crosses and torments themselues surmounts al things cleaues to one God and with an inextricable knot is vnited with him Whether it be the fire which alwayes suffers some-what or actuates this or that I know not this I am sure of that the liuelyer it puts forth the
force it hath the lesse it yealds to the enemy and is the hardlyer ouercome This fire when once it takes on the litle furnace of the hart good God! what strange and how many heates of loue enkindles it there They only know the excesses of this vnquiet feauer who loue IESVS dearely indeed passionately thirst after him Now shal you see this languishing hart breake out into frequent abrupt and interrupting sighs and now and then heare certayne briefe interiections withal cast forth here and there by the poore soule liquefying with a sweet extasy of loue Tel my beloued o blessed spirits that I languish al for loue and that vnles with the prop of his golden scepter he come as once Assâ—erus to Hester powerfully susteyne hold vp my fleeting soule I shal faint at his feet for now the vnequal and feeble pulse euen mortally beates and now my face is fouly dight with an asky and deadly colour the extatical heat now wholy wastes the marrow so as now remaynes in me nothing which suffers not of this fire But anon you wil wonder to see that hart excited with the same loue of God resuming as it were new strength to be sodainly caryed and snacht with violence into the thing beloued I wil rise said the Spouse extreamly enamoured with her beloued I wil compasse the Citty through streets and lanes I wil seeke whom my soule loues nor wil I giue ouer til obteyning my desire I take hold of him I wil enquire of created things aske them where is my God I wil seeke and perticularly demand of al nor wil I truely rest satisfyed finding some image only of God in them superficially shadowed or discouering but a glimmer only of diuine perfections for these wil but excite my thirst not quenh it wholy but I wil hunt further and constantly seeke him whom my soules loues For the hart enflamed with loue continually machinates workes something nor hath diuine loue learned to be idle it is alwayes in action and stil proceedes from vertue to vertue and if it rest at any tyme and seeme but to sabothize it is no longer diuine loue Amidst these symptomes of this disease the mind obteynes three things and proues them in it-selfe for first how much soeuer it occupyes it-self in difficult things and seriously attends to its owne abasement to a perfect contÌ„ept of worldly things to represse vntamed and vnbridled appetites yet al these acts most worthy and heroical it puts in the last place yea when it workes and effects the most thinks it hath done as good as nothing and lastly accounts the tyme so long spent in the lists of vertue to be exceeding short which euen the sacred Scriptures record of the Patriarch Iacob whom the beauty and loue of the faire Rachel had so taken enveigled as he reckoned yeares very tedious for toyles as weekes for dayes dayes for moments I haue yet said but litle The hart which is enamoured with IESVS thinks it cannot be broken or tamed with anything and therefore dares prouoke euen death it-self chalenge it to a single fight as not his match to scorne its weapons and not so only but insolently to insult vpon this pale Goddesse who yet is she which tramples the Crownes and Scepters of Kings and Caesars subdues the armed Sampsons and layes them at her foot forbids the Alexanders not satisfyed with one world to spread their Ensignes any further lastly puts the Helâ—nâ—â—s as deformed vnder a base yoke What more This hart is so impatient of rest delayes al things as while most ardently it loues and seekes the onelie IESVS and groanes after him it holds a moment for a yeare regards not any thing els nothing likes nothing pleaseth nothing satiates or recreates a whit as to whom besides IESVS al things are nauseous and but dreames vnto it Lastly for his sake after whom it sighes and languishes with the heat of thirsting loue scorning the stinking lakes of wordly pleasures and the filthy mire of the Aegyptian bogs like a Stag nigh perishing with thirst and deadly wounds with a rapid course and willing mind rushes through the brakes and craggy rocks of precipices and hastes to the founteynes of endles waters to God the liuing spring Oh inexhaustible spring of loue quench this thirst satiate this hunger O beauty so antient and so yong take here possession of the hart deuoted to thee Be this I pray a Temple a Chapel an Altar consecrated to the true and only Godhead Admit the incense in an odour of sweetnes which shal hereafter fume from this golden table nor euer suffer o God of my hart the place thus duly dedicated to thy honour and loue to be euer once defiled with sordityes or crimes but rather may it euer and euer stand inuiolable and vntouched I. MEDITATION The Preparatory Prayer Actiones nostras quaesumus c. FIRST PRELVDE IMagin God being in Heauen seated on the Cherubins most highly blessed and in essential perfection infinit to require here on earth an Inne to lodge in 2. PRELVDE Imagin the Tabernacle erected of old through diuine precept by Moyses there the Temple by Salomon most sumpteously and magnificently built and therein the Propitiatory reposed whence diuine Oracles were afforded to men The hart of a pious man a Temple of the Godhead and hath three parth with it whereof the first the mind is to be seen in the vpper place Here God in the production of things as in a high Altar proposeth the omnipotency to be seen and worshiped in the gouern'ment of them the highest wisdome and the infinit goodnes in the conseruation The interiour part of the Temple is the other portion of the hart the wil and here that infinit either goodnes or beauty aboue al things exhibits it-self most amiable Lastly for the out most face of the whole Temple stand the exteriour senses which as reason true piety would religiously obey the wil commanding duly diuine things 2. Point Moreouer the Consecration of this TÌ„eple the hart I meane deuoted vnto God is performed with the same ceremonies our Temples rightly dedicated are The manner of sanctifying Temples is to strew the pauements al with ashes to affige twelue Crosses on the wal to burne as many tapers set before them to haue water blessed after the solemne formulary of Processions and in the Ashes sprinckled on the ground the Greeke Latine Alphabet scored out So his hart that would be the Oratory of the God-head should first be imbued with humility and the knowledge of his owne nothing be illustrated with excellent faith signed with the loue of the Crosse and mortification as wel inward as outward be instructed by the Holy Ghost and lastly in like manner purely and holily to be cleansed with the heauenly waters of diuine graces 3. Point Now then the hart thus dedicated with so many and so chast ceremonies
another in cypres wood the other be garnished round with plates of siluer al enameled and set with topase stones and finally the last be deckt with the richest gemmes Take off thy hand now if thou please the worke is fully finished Yet one thing more remaines my diuine Painter of no smal reguard forsooth that to thine exquisit work thou adde a curten least vnluckily the dust or moister ayre or more vntoward mind may euer taint or least obscure so elegant and terse a picture X. MEDITATION The preparatory Prayer Actiones nostras c. THE PRELVDE I Would to God they would be wise prouide for the last things 1. Point Consider IESVS to be an excellent Painter who with the only pencil of the mouth to wit the draught of one litle word of fiat painted the whole world with so great and artificious a variety of colours and how in each creature he hath expressed very excellent lineaments of his power wisdome and goodnes 2. Point Thinke what force hath the liuely image and representation of death perticular iudgement and Hel to restraine the lawles liberty of our life and too excessiue mirth and how much the remembrance of the heauenly glory preuayles to stirre vp the mind in the course of vertue and to take away the difficulties they vse to meet with who walk that way 3. Point Thinke this also with thy self how the pictures and the images of the foresaid things expressed at no tyme should be wiped away from the table of the hart this being the sourse of al our teares and errours to be so careles and backvvard to conceiue and premeditate before hand vvhat is to be exhibited in the last act and period of our life THE COLLOQVY SHal be made to God beseeching him not to suffer that either the delights and honours of the vvorld or prosperity aduersity may euer raçe out of our minds those pictures vvhose affect is so necessary for vs to our Saluation Pater Aue. IESVS BRINGS IN THE CROSSE INTO the hart and easily imprints it in the louer THE HYMNE HAst thou no Harbinger to bring Thy furniture so great a King But must thy self in person come To order al and hang this roome My hart alas 〈◊〉 hardly brooks To be tranâ—fixt with tenter bookâ— For nayles and hamner now I see And ladder al prepar'd for me Ah! without sheets I see thy bed Thy Crosse no bolster for thy head Except it be a crowne of thorne Thy canopy is Heauen forlorne Al things lament thy paynes to see IESV come in I 'l mourne with thee THE INCENTIVE 1. GOe in louely Crosse enter launce spunge nayles scourge bloudy thornes get you in to the Closet of the hart Welcome stil but on this condition that IESVS bring you in himself for mirrh with IESVS is admirable and meere sweetnes 2. Thou saist thou louest IESVS then needes must thou his Crosse for if otherwise thou boast to loue IESVS thou deceiuest thy self and others 3. Most sweet child what haue you and I to doe with this lumber here scarce art thou come into the world but thou art oppressed with the weight of punishments Oh plant thy seat in my Hart and then shal I chalenge Hel it-self for if IESVS and I hold togeather what Hercules can stand against vs both THE PREAMBLE to the Meditation MOst worthy Painter I pray take the table in hand againe for before thou makest an end of thy worke in the escuchion of my hart thou must needs paint thine armes with some motto or other that by the deuise thou mayst be known to be the Master of the house The Palaces of Kings and their houses as wel in the Countrey as Citty euery-where are wont to giue forth their titles armes and names of their Ancestours to wit the monuments of their royal stock and ancient nobility As for thine armes and tropheues of thy name good IESV I take them to be thy Crosse nailes lauÌ„ce crown ' of thornes scourges that Pillar whereto thou wert bouÌ„d those very cords wherewith thou wast tyed I sayd he haue been trained vp in labours froÌ„ my youth Goe to then for my sake among those foure images of the last things which thou hast fully finished in al points let these instruments as Tropheye of thy Passion be likewise pourtraited The Crosse would be of Cedar that is painted in his proper colour the speare sprinckled with bloud the nayles dipt in the same dye the pillar marked with drops and streakes of bloud lastly the cords and scourges with bloud also but so as washt away with teares here and there they make certain distinctions between At sight of these armes if they offer to encroch or approach neerer to the hart be the enemies dispersed and fly as wax before the face of the fire But hoâ— my Lord print I pray that Crosse more deep into my hart if it be churlish resist vse violeÌ„ce with it soften it if need be if with too much softnes it proue il and diffuse it-self constraine the parts to consist and hold together but be sure that euery colour thou here workest with be wel mixed with thy bloud for this colour pleaseth best as being the simbol of loue Be this Crosse to me sweet IESVS as a buckler to rebate and blunt the weapons of the enemyes be it a wal or trench to girt me in armes for me to assaile my enemyes with al may it stirre in me alwayes first a fresh and liuely memory of thy passion then a burning desire of suffring with alacrity for thee al hard and cruel things no otherwise indeed then of those thornes were roses the black-berries the whitest-lillyes let this wood cast into my-mind turne the bitternes of the waters into sweetnes change gaul into hony alloes to sugar Let the Crosse be the mast of the sayling ship wherein transported I may happily land at the hauen of saluation my bed where couching as the Phenix in her nest and consumed with the flame of loue and turned to ashes I may dye Iacobs ladder to mount to Heauen by the Pilgrims staff to passe the Iourdan the sheep-hooke to keep in the straying senses in their dutyes Pharus whereto I may direct my course in the tempestuous Sea of the world amid the thickest fogs or fowlest weather May the launce and scourges strike a terrour to the proud and rebellious spirits that menace a far-off and reuewing the assault by sits try to inuade thy Sanctuary Pitch Lord and plant this Crosse of thine in the turret of the hart be it there a standard which being aymed at as the Captayns signe and signe of warre may al the faculties of my mind anon be summoned with alarmes and pel-mel directly rush vpon the enemy Being armed with this Crosse as with the keenest sword I may cut off the wretched head of the cruel Holofernes and rise vp against my Aduersaries like that Angel who in a night
pleasures abound but in the contrary IESVS being absent what hydeous darknes ouer-casts the minds whole squadrons of calamities troubles desperations feares mourning tediousnes slouth molestations and what not come rushing in by troops THE COLLOQVY SHal be directed to the Blessed Virgin of whom with the greatest endeauour of an earnest and submisse mind that may be I wil craue leaue that what she led before I may sing after her My soule doth magnify the Lord especially since the benefits I receiued from her sonne are likwise infinit I wil further inuite not onely the Angelical spirits to sing but al created things whatsoeuer with that Psalme of Dauid Praise the Lord al you nations Pater Aue. IESVS RESTS IN the louers hart THE HYMNE BEhold my hart doth Christ enclose While he doth sleep I doe repose As I in him he rests in me If he awake I needs must be The cause that made the noise within For nought disquiets him but sin But I with crosses soon am vext With iniuries and cares perplext And I who should my wil resigne Am soone disturb'd greiue fret repine Til IESVS doth his grace impart Who giues repose vnto my hart O happy hart with such a guest Which here hath what he giues thee rest THE INCENTIVE 1. SO long as the hart in God and God rests in the hart which is wrought with a holy consent of wils let the Heauens thunders and lighten the earth quake and moue out of its seat the elements tumult the winds of temptations rage and make a hurly-burly yet the hart shal be quiet and laugh at al. 2. When thou hast receiued IESVS taking the venerable Sacrament of the Eucharist take heed thou awake him noâ— deliciously sleeping there either with the hydeous noise of outrageous choler or with the obstreperous clamour of the other passioÌ„s or by any other way of breaking silence so much as with the huâ—h only 3. But doe thou sleep my litle IESVS and as thou lists thy self take thy rest in Gods name We make thee a couch ready in the hart we intend to loue none but thee we wil neuer breake our faith with thee though the winds bluster and seas rore neuer so much THE PREAMBLE to the Meditation I Sleep and my hart wakes It is the voyce of the most louing IESVS Whist therefore you Heauens earth hold your peace IESVS sleeping in the bed of the hart sweetly rests You bustle in vaine o restlesse winds The hart where IESVS takes his rest is safe enough the ship is now in the Hauen which the Master-hand of so diuine a Pilot guides Cease Aquilo Ah thou cold gelid cruel stranger of the North bridle thy most ominouâ— blasts for thou exhausts and dryest vp the riuers of celestial graces freesest the harts of men with a slouthful yce and nigh killest them with cold thou strippest the trees of fruit and leaues makest the earth euen horrid with hoary frosts and winter downes dashest the tallest ships and the best man'd and sinkest them in a fatal gulf Cease thou Southern enemy Stormy Auster froward hot rhewmatike and which is worse thou incentiue and fire-brand of lusts bridle thy fatal breath wherewith thou burnest al things stirrest humours extinguishest the fires of diuine loue sprincklest the nerues and synnews dishartnest minds and makes them languish And doe thou cease likewise sweeping faune or scourer of the easterne coasts thou fatal Affrican not only familiar with tempest but ful of a pestilent and blasting breath thou rusflest here in vaine thou shalt neuer shake this hart wherein IESVS takes his rest But thou the fauner of the Eastern sunne gentle Eurus whether thou wouldst be called Subsolanus or Vulturnus rather who art thought to blow the winds of a fauourable and smiling fortune remoue those insolent blasts of thine For the hart intentiue to diuine things and al enflamed with loue heares and attends thee not Now come I then to thee my litle IESVS tel me goe to what slumber is this which refreshed thy weary body with so gentle a shower of vapours Thou being once tired in the heat of the day satest at the fountaine attending the poore Samaritan woman with whom as the antient Iacob with his Rebâ—cca thou struckest a new contract of mariage Again els-where being broken with toyle of trauelling sherwd iournyes thou gottest to the mountaine tops about the shutting in of the day to refresh thy wearied limmes with a short repose when presently hauing now hardly begun to enter into prayer thou wast faine abruptly to break it off But what sleepst thou here now for Nor doe I thinke thou art so drownd in sleep or so idle is to meditate on nothing If thy loue deceiue me not I should verily beleeue thou now reuoluâ—st in mind that sacred mariage which thou one day wast to contract with the Church thy immaculate Spouse at that most happy tree of the Crosse when the sleep of death should bind thee both hand and foote and from thine open side that other Eue should yssue forth as once the forme Eue had done our common Parent who sudenly arose so built of the bone of Adam cast into that prophetical and extatical sleep Or whether art thou not perhaps voluing and reuoluing many things within thee studing and contriuing with thy self what dowry to make thy new Spouse and peraduenture thinkst vpon the ornaments and dressings for her head earings bracelets carkanets and wedding robes al embrodred with the richest gemmes with such like nuptial honours and presents fit for Spouses Or thou designest who knovves the forme perhaps and solemne tables of Matrimony vvhich hereafter in the publike Theatre of the vvorld thou art to celebrate vvith the Church and the holy Soule It may be thou considerest vvhat her pouerty is and vvant of al things and vvhat the rest of al her goodly stock of miseries or vvherein only she is richly furnished and abundantly vvel stored Or perhaps thou thinkest of yet more ful happy things then these which here thou dreamest on while thou sleepest For in those geÌ„tle slumbers thou takest in the humane hart thou now plottest perhaps in mind the immense glory thou wilt affoard the soule with a prodigal hand who shal haue the grace to receiue thee courteously indeed This doubtlesse thou handlest now voluest reuoluest destinest and designest O great Iacob while thou slept'st so with thy head resting on a hard stone what strange what diuine things there didst thou bâ—hold And how many Angels were shewed thee on that ladder going vp and downe so pitched on the earth and reaching vp to heauen Iacob as we haue in the sacred history flying the more then deadly hate fury which his brother Esau bare vnto him came to Luza where he made a stone his pillow lying on the bare ground in stead of a soft and easy bed and behold he saw a ladder fixt on the ground extended to heauen God leaning on