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A06534	The devout hart or Royal throne of the pacifical Salomon. Composed by F. St. Luzuic S.I. Translated out of Latin into English. Enlarged with incentiue by F. St. Binet of the same S. and now enriched with hymnes by a new hand	Luzvic, Stephanus, 1567-1640.; Binet, Etienne, 1569-1639. aut; Hawkins, Henry, 1571?-1646.	1634 (1634)	STC 17001; ESTC S103988	72,609	316

that not a fly disquieted the Patriarch busy in this rites I wil not Lord I wil not haue my hart a Bethanues or Temple of Bel a pestered with flyes and ruining al with filthy corrupt goare where Belsebub giues forth his Oracles and exhibits himself awful and terrible to men in despaire of their saluation How I hate these direful and dreadful Sacrifices these rites Thy bloud O sweet IESV is alwayes red with purple and white with lylies intermixed For these two colours thou affect'st the purple red snowy vhite wouldst thy Cliens and deuotes addicted to them and to be known by them This bloud of thine to thirsty soules quenches their heat to hot and toyled spirits sends a humid breath to broken and dismaid harts giues fortitude and courage VII MEDITATION The preparatory Prayer Actiones nostras c. THE PRELVDE IN the midst of the Temple was placed a huge brazen vessel wh̄ece many channels yssued forth apt to communicate their waters for the vse of Preists and Leuits where with they washed themselues when they went to sacrifice Weigh the munificence of God who thought it not enough for declaration of his famous and good wil towards vs to water the hart of man with his owne bloud vnles he left vs also a fountaine famous for seauen channels from whence the guifts of graces might plentifully prodigally flow into our minds to wit seauen Sacraments instituted to this end to wash vs to expiate our sinnes and to wipe al steynes from the hart 2. Point Consider the grace which flowes from the fountaines of the Sacraments to be a golden water which turnes al it touches into gold and that so powrefully and diuinely as there is not the least action of our life so it be sprinckled with the liquour of diuine grace which we ought not to make more reckoning of then of al the treasures and riches of the world as meritorious and worthy of eternal happines 3. Point Consider now how al graces merits depend of the only Sonne of God and thence ●re deriued by certaine pipes or aqueducts as from the rock or head of these liuing waters Wherefore we are most studiously to receiue and keep this liquour of grace least any whit thereof should breake from the bancks of our hart nor is any occasion of heaping merits to be omitted which we greedily reach or catch not at THE COLLOQVY TO the wounds of our Sauiour MY soule O God hath thirsted after thee vnles thou replenish it with heaūely waters who shal recreate or refresh it My soule is blacker then a coale who shal wash it whiter then snow vnles thou powrest forth thy grace into it which clearer then any chrystal fals from the streames of thy side hands and feet Oh sacred springs of Syloe infusing light to the blind Oh Springs of Elun which refreshed the heat of the people of Israel dying nigh with thirst amid those parched sands of that vast desert Oh rock smit cruelly with the tongue and hand of the Sinagogue a rock I say not exhaling flames of fire but powring out aboundant streames and flouds of benedictions which with a continued course accompanyed the pilgrime people into Palestine Oh you holsome Iourdan waters of Naaman flow with a copious channel into my hart that no locks or sluce at any tyme may hinder your course But your O you heauenly Ministers of God and mans saluation diue and plunge in this fountaine placed in the midst of the house of God those Ethiops our minds I say so vgly and deformed with the wretched colour of vices that by your meanes being rised and cleansed once they may issue forth like doues Amen Pater Ave. IESVS RVLES AND REIGNES IN THE louing deuout hart THE HYMNE OMightie Souer aigne if you please To deigne a looke view our seas Where harts like ships with wind tide Are sayling some at anker ride Some with waues and boystrous windes Tost to fro ' mongst them you find My floating hart with euery blast Of greife or of affliction past As ' t were immersed with in the maine But yet Greate Monarch if you deigne To be my Neptune or to guide The sterne of my poore hart beside The surges flying ore my decks Reigne in my hart let Hel play reks THE INCENTIVE 1. VVhen IESVS sits in the hart as in a Throne there commands the hart is a Paradise our cogitations affects desires are euen as Angels Cherubins yea Seraphins so here doe al things burne with diuine loue 2. God raignes nor rules not Sinne therefore swayes and beares the rule most tyrant-like and strikes and wounds the miserable hart already stretched on the cruel rack and torture with terrours scruples horrid spectres bestial appetits no hart but euen a Hel. 3. Little King great God tame my rebellious hart subdue it to thy heasts and eternally commaund it Surely I wil doe what I can to dedicate and consecrate it to thee doe thou defend the place wherein thou likest wel to be shut vp THE PREAMBLE to the Meditation THe pacifical Salomon in those dayes of old had built him a Throne of iuory six degrees or steps in height on both sides whereof watched a Lyon very exquisitly wrought the truest symbol of regal Maiesty and likewise for the people beneath in the midst of the Temple he erected a very eminent and stately Chapel And so to thee Immortal God the heauen is a Throne the earth a foot-stoole For thou sit'st as sacred scriptures tel vpon the wings of Cherubins whence thou giuest Oracles prescribest lawes to the world and euen with the only looke maiesty and state becomst most terrible to the haughtiest mids Hence thou exactst iust punishments from the damned hence thou inebriatst the blessed Citizens of Heauen with the nectaral honey of thy goodnes lastly hence thou carrousest cups mingled with the gal of iustice and honey of pure goodnes to the earth suspended betweene heauen and hel Besides in the triumphant Church the celestial spirits whom we cal Thrones are thy royal seat and in the militant the sacred Altar is thy lodging chamber where thou sweetly takest thy rest But nothing is thine owne so much or due vnto thee with a better title then the hart of man which with a low abasement of thy self and a singular obedience to thy father thou hast lawfully recouered and bought with the price of immense labour and paynes yea redeemed with thy bloud a shameful death on the Crosse. Here o pacifical Salomon thou rulest there thou commaunds with a beck in this soyle or seat as in thine owne dominion thou swayst in that manner as there is none so bold or of so impudent a face that dares vnbidden step in a foot or not touched with the point of thy golden scepter looke in a-doores Here thou hearest the humble suits and petitions of thy subiets here thou stiflest

haue scorn'd and derided dead it-self Surely the squadrons of Martyrs and Quiers of Virgins triumphing in Heauen cary Palmes in their hands howbeit the 24. Seniours ware on their heads crownes of gold which through their glorious conquests and set triumphs by them made vpon their enemyes they had purchased to themselues Blesse therefore the Lord thou holy soule through whose singular and especial fauour thou hast atteined to the top of perfection Praise thy Lord through whose mighty power thou hast walked and trampled on the sands of the sea crossed the Iourdan with a dry foot the people of harts incircumcized and enemyes professed looking on the while and gazing with amazment to whom so vanquished thou gauest lawes and laidst perpetual tributes on them they being not able any wayes to barre thee passage into the land of promise and ●egion of Pal●st●n● Blesse thy God ●hen o hart ful of Heauen and al of 〈◊〉 And since now thou hast ob●ned a certaine pledge of felicity an infallible hope enter a Gods name at thy pleasure with a notable and triumphant pomp into the Capitol of the heauenly Hierusalem whereso many purple Kings triūph as haue heretofore repressed their lewd concupiscences and the insolence as wel of their interiour as exteriour senses Ioyne thee to the inuincible Martyrs and keep among the Quiers of Virgins let the body be thy triumphal chariot which Saphirs and Carbuncles most precious iewels embellish as with so many twinckling starres Let Clarity Agility Subtility Impassibility those foure dotes of the blessed body be as so many wheeles and permit thy self to be drawne wheresoeuer the diuine spirit sitting on the coatch and wheeles shal snatch thee or fly thou where thou wilt thy self diuine loue shal play the Coach-man Besides the Princes of darknes sigh and groane as thy runne before the chariot whom thou hast vanquished with the singular demission and lowlynes of mind Let death it-self be constreined likwise to put on the cheynes and follow after since by the death of Christ thou hast triumphed vpon it also weakned and broken and that already by the same guide and wagoner as before Let the vanqui●hed world come in and make a part of the said pomp which then thou stoutly trampledst vnder-feet when with a generous scorne and loathing contemning its wealth and honours thou madst no more reckoning of its vast immensnes insolent cariages and flanting promises then of a figure drawne in the water or Chimaera laboriously framed in the folish shop of the phantasy Draw I say these ancient cruel enemyes now happily vanquished and tamed wel loaden with cheines and reproaches before the oual and triumphant chariot that is the rich bootyes noble spoyles ample tropheyes and victories atcheiued in many warres But especially haue care that sensuality aboue the rest the chiefest part of the triumph be tyed and bound to the Chariot which with an heroical fortitude thou hast conquered made more like indeed to a dead then a liuing thing pale meagre and of so feeble forces as it may neuer after dare to appeare in the field or make any resistance But now in warlike standards and enseignes let the cityes and towers which thou hast ouer-throwne be painted which kind let the mad tower be first set downe which thou had leueld with the ground and let al the complices and confederates thereof subdued and braught vnderyoke and so cheyned together be led as ambition vanity arrogance and the rest of those military troops Let another banner exhibit the bloudy warres to be read which thou hast valiantly attēpted faught and the victoryes nobly atchiued against luxury and rebellion of the senses Let those gallant exploits be wouen here in silke and waued in banners vp and downe through the ayr as thou passest wherewith thou hast mastered and tamed thy flesh that fierce and cruel beast Let the inuincible courage of thy mind be here seen and read as fasts abstinences austerities mortificatiōs wherewith as with a sword and buckler thou hast fought against this fierce and mischeuous enemy Let the Stygian Pluto also that damned loue of riches be caryed in an other flag whom long since thou hast trod vnder-foot in preferring religious pouerty before al the treasures of the world Let besides the dastard weake and languishing slouth sitting on her snayl come forth in this triumph which slow and sluggish beast thou hast stirred vp with the sharp prick of generosity and diligence and beyond al hope prouoked and preuayled with at last Lastly in a table higher then the rest let this inscription be read registred in capital letters for a record and perpetual memory THROVGH THE HELP SVCCOVRS AND MERITS OF THE MOST LOVING IESVS HAVE WE FAVGHT AND VANQVISHED AND ARE NOW CONVEYED TO HEAVEN TO TRIVMPH THERE AMIDST THE GLORIOVS PALMES AND LAVRELS But now what remaines forsooth this last of al that when thou shalt consort thy self aboue with those 24. Seniours and Quiers of Angels thou lay downe thy crowne at the feet of the immaculate Lamb chanting with those blessed Citizens of Heauen this oual and triumphing song Benediction clarity and thanks-giuing honour vert●e and fortitude to our Lord for euer and euer Amen XVIII MEDITATION The preparatory Prayer Actiones nostras c. FIRST POINT I Wil fayne my self to be armed at the top of the Hil whither I had got with great endeauour and much labour and trouble I wil cast and reflect the eyes of my mind on the diuers wayes and traces I had passed thither the precipices I escaped and the perils of assassinates and wild beasts I haue auoyded For so it is indeed with such as haue attayned to the top of perfection For these should attentiuely consider with thēselues as from an eminent place how many and how great dangers temptations and sinister chances being assisted by the diuine mercy they haue escaped from the world and al the rest of the enemies of mans saluation 2. Point I wil consider the lawes of these lifts to be such that None shal be crowned but who haue lawfully faught contēded therein The Palme belongs but to the Conquerour and I wil admire also the goodnes of God for crowning vs himself with his graces and commanding the Angels to crowne vs with those laurels which we haue purchased to our selues with our owne vertues 3. Point I wil ponder and weigh with my self with what riuers of ioyes the hart flowes to whom is affoarded to arriue to the top of diuine loue and who already beholds his owne perseurance which only vertue makes vs blessed and secure without which the rest auayle but litle or nothing for perseuerance alone is it which is crowned THE COLLOQVY SHal be directed to the most louing IESVS to whom of duty al our crowns belong For we are not conquerours so much as vanquished while he indeed hath broken and subdued our refractory and rebellious hart Wherefore to him as to