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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55504	The sovles life exercising it selfe in the sweet fields of divine meditations and prayers. Collected for the comfort of all those who willingly adventure their lives for the defence of the Gospel, in these blood-thirsty times of war.	Portman, Richard.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3001B; ESTC R220485	26,310	146

comfort for the afflicted whether in body or minde You may see Gods providence and power delivering his people out of prison out of the fire out of the Denne of Lions out of the hands of their enemies out of shipwracke at Sea His feeding Elias by a Raven in the wildernesse and thousands of such like preservations and deliverances you may see and learn wisdom temperance patience faith hope and charity humility meeknesse and brotherly kindnesse Here you may see all sorts of sin and how to avoid them and you may see that bitter herb too called punishmēt due to sinners also you may see the good lives of Gods children and the rewards they have in the Kingdome of Heaven You may see Gods Attributes his power wisdome and love to mankind You may see our Saviours love in his sufferings for man his miracles and wonders and thousands of other comfortable flowers Certaine it is that no Garden in the world is like this this is pleasant and beautifull it yeelds comfort to all the happinesse of this Nation is such that they may walke and delight themselves in it at all times when other Nations are hardly permitted to looke in Let us then consider admire love and praise our good God for his infinite mercy to us in affording us that happinesse which no Nation in the world exceeds us in Let us adore and magnifie his marvellous clemency and goodnesse to us unworthy sinners let us extoll and land his name and let us be shewing forth his praise from generation to generation MEDITAT XXIII A Meditation on Musick in which as it were by way of digression the lawfulnesse of that Science is asserted O God! thou great Architect and composer of all things though I cannot but wonder at and admire those rare Arts and Sciences with the knowledge of which thou hast endued the sonnes of men yet of all that of Musick as it most nearly affects my sense so doth it most highly raise my admiration What a multitude of inventions is there in this Science that although it hath beene studied by millions of men for thousands of years and ever since Iubal who was the father of all such as did handle the Harp and Organ as we may see in Genesis Chap. 4. yet none could ever attaine to the full scope or perfection of it Yet thus much I may safely say for the honour of our Nation that for the generality of Musicke they have not beene inferiour to any Nation in the world And as this Science is none of the meanest so I am sure it is one of the most difficult for let a man read the Theory all the dayes of his life and he shall come short of the Practicke so let him use only the Practicke and he will yet be unskilfull for want of the Theory so that the way to make a Musitian compleat is to study both But let us view this Science in some particular branch of it see but the quality of a singer let him begin at the age of five or six and continue untill gray hayres he will I am sure confesse that hee is not yet perfect in his quality there is something more for him to do if he could find what it is he discovers a want of skill and will be studying for alteration or addition now all this while this is but one part of the Science neither is it otherwise with Instrumental Practitioners although they labour either upon the Organ Virginall Lute Violl or Harpe all their dayes yet they will finde themselves much below that Alt of perfection Now if it bee thus difficult with vocal and instrumental men surely it must needs bee far more difficult with composers who professe the greatest and most excellent part of Musick surely their study and travell must undoubtedly far exceed all others I could shew you the infinite variety exacted to be in a composer but I am not now to dispute but meditate And for the repute of this Noble Science it hath alwayes beene in highest esteeme among the best and greatest Worthies of the world for it is well knowne that divers Kings and Princes tooke great pleasure and have arrived to an high pitch of knowledge in it for instance King Henry the eight who composed a Song of eight parts a thing worthy his great name Lewis the late French King composed divers Songs and many Princes of Italy have beene excellent in this Science having published to the world divers sets of Songs famous Queene Elizabeth of happy memory was no small Practitioner of this Art Nor may we without great admiration observe the strange power and efficacy of this Science When David played on his Harp the evill Spirit liked it so well he would not stay to heare it but left Saul who of a King was become his subject and certainly if there bee any that hate the laudable use of this quality we may suspect that this evill Spirit delights to dwell with them where hee may not be troubled with it Nay which is more strange the Prophet Elisha could not prophesie untill an Instrument was brought to him and played on as you may see in the second of Kings Chap. 3. But now bring me a minstrell and it came to passe when the minstrell played that the hand of the Lord ●ame upon him and hee pr●phesied Observe wee the twentieth Chap. of the second Booke of Chron. that when Iehoshaphat had consulted with the people hee appointed Singers unto the Lord that should praise the beauty of holinesse as they went out before the Army and to say Praise the Lord for his mercy endureth for ever And when they began to sing and to praise then the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon Moab and mount Seir which were come against Iudah and they were all smitten and ●●…e escaped See the tenth Chap of Samuel verse 5. After that thou shalt come to the hill of God where is the Garrison of the Philistines and it shall come to passe when thou art come thither to the City that thou shalt meet a company of Prophets comming downe from the high place with a Psaltery and a Tabre● and a Pipe and a Harpe before them and they shall prophesie and the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee and thou shalt prophesie with them and shalt be turned into another man and the Spirit of God came upon Saul and hee prophesied among them See the first of Chron. Chap. 25. Moreover David and the Captaines of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Iedutbun who should prophesie with Harps with Psalteries and with Cymbals See cap. ib. The six sons of Ieduthun under the hands of their father Ieduthun who prophesied with Harps to give thanks and to praise the Lord. Now we may plainly see that Kings and Prophets went both to prophesie and to battaile with Musicke And surely Musick was a furtherance to them otherwise they