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nation_n	lord_n	praise_v	psalm_n	1,627	5	9.3777	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 no● deliciously sleeping there either with the hydeous noise of outrageous choler or with the obstreperous clamour of the other passiōs or by any other way of breaking silence so much as with the hu●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 ominou● 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 Reb●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 reuolu●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 gētle 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 b●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