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A33746	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	58,602	103

wonderfully wisely and kindly seen to reconcile the World what is that but Vileness Vanity and Vexation Frailty and a Curse unto himself that Man might be far more able than he was by the Glasses and Laver of the Tabernacle both to see his Spots and Pollutions to get clean from them and that God might be consider'd and admired not so much in the broken Glass of Nature nor in the blotted Book of the Creature which shew us his power and greatness as in the Face of a Redeemer in the Testament of the holy Jesus which most plainly and yet most gloriously speaks thy Love and Goodness and calls for ours since if thou hast so loved this naughty World and us that help to make it worse how ought we to love thee and also to love one another O how good as well as how pleasant a thing it is to know Christ as our Head and we our selves his Members This is as sweet and useful as Life it self to make our short Lives here not tedious to our selves or others nay this is Life Eternal because Charity never fails We shall have that Grace for all if we are Christians we shall keep it always if we are Saints for it is Holiness and will be Happiness it is the Oyl that from our Head from our everlasting Aaron falls down to the very Skirts of his Clothing to revive and refresh the lowest and most humbled Sinner if believing and it is that Anointing from above which we must not want especially at the last Article of Life in the greatest extremities of Temptation but we must carry it along with us into our Father's presence then shall we be in his sight as a Field which the Lord hath blest then will he smell the Odour of our elder Brother's Vest upon us and we shall inherit the Promises and abide in his Love in the participation and in the propagation thereof Divine Love being the Dew of Heaven that causes the fruitfulness of the Earth it makes us high and white like Hermon pleasant and safe as Mount Sion it makes our Superiours and the great ones of the Earth not to be Rocks of Offence to us but to be rather as the shadows of a Rock in a dry Land needful Supports convenient Sanctuaries and Refreshments and it causes God to command a Blessing on us from all degrees of People above us and of conditions round about us Therefore Dear Lord help us to live in such Concord and brotherly Kindness as that we may be Blessed from all our Relations from our Superiours by having the Oyl of Spiritual Blessings and the Dew of Temporal Favours bestowed on us Love and good Will from Equals Prayers and good Wishes from Inferiours being so careful and affectionate both for thy Priests and for our Princes as that neither Moses nor Aaron may be murmured at but obeyed by us and we may be protected and guided by their Hands in the Spirit and Practice of all true Love and Charity for the honour of our Christian Profession and for the glory of thy holiest Name O Christ Jesus our Lord who livest and reignest c. THE FIFTEENTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXXIV PSALM Was composed by David De Muys thinks as well as the former and appointed to put the People in mind of their more solemn Times of Meeting with that pious charitable and unspotted Souls with which they ought to approach God this being an Euge an incitement to all who are the Lord's Servants to be constant and pure in his Service as a particular hoc age to the Priests at the Canonical Hours of Prayer and stated Times of public Worship to lift up clean Hands and holy Hearts It is a proper Close to the preceding Hymns being often sung at Midnight at the end of the Nocturnal Offices by the Jews and design'd by me for the Eves of our greater Festivals It is an Exhortation generally directed not only to the Priests who kept the Watch in the Temple so to the People who watched their Days and Nights for many departed not as you may gather from Psal 92.2 and Luke 2.37 It seems to me most probable that this Psalm was composed by Ezra the Priest or some of his Time not only because it is the last of the Graduals which were accommodated for the Return from Captivity but because it is Dramatic chiefly concerning the Priests who stand by night in the House of the Lord or as the 72d in the Courts of the House which was not built in David's time and therefore it is not so likely a composition of David's but of Ezra when the holy manner of worshipping God was restored Ezra 8.6 and the Priests set in their Courses Vers 7. In the first Verse of this Psalm I should suppose the Choir joyning to the Music and then the Chief Priest for that Watch giving the rest Directions as in the second Verse and they again in the third Verse blessing him for it is Bless thee and not yee though in my version I use the Plural throughout A Nocturnis for Christmas Eve ALL ye whô God's Do me stics are see you with An gels wait and in your Courses like each Star by Night shine at Heav'ns Gate Look while ye stand Among the Jews the Choir stood the People kneeled the High-Priest sate and the washings of their Hands and Feet so frequent during the time of their officiating were call'd Sanctifications or kneel or sit Ye serve and bless the Lord Look that your Hands God's Altar fit And to his Praise accord Look ye be clean for Holiness Becomes God's holy Place Watch well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the 72. is short of the Original though it means in holy Things as well as Places for it signifies Holiness in the Abstract Christ typified by the Ark of the Covenant and such Holiness in Men as could adapt them for the discharge of their Duty which is hinted by the Apostle 1 Tim. 2.8 And this was signified by the Jews often washing their Hands and Feet before their Praying which was stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sanctification Vt alibi indigitavi and Pray that Filthiness None of God's Works deface Then God who made the World and stays On Sion Grace shall send 'Till he shall Bless and we shall Praise From hence World without end Gloria Patri c. To God the Father God the Son And God the Holy-Ghost Be Glory giv'n by ev'ry one Who make the Lord their Boast AMEN CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Fifteenth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXXIV PSALM O Thou that acceptest not the Persons of Princes nor regardest the Rich more than the Poor since they are all alike the Works of thy Hands grant that we may not be such Fools as to forget thee in any time of our quiet fulness or repose lest thou come at an Hour when thou art not look'd for by us and find us unfit for thy Appearance who canst

Murder bent At me their Bows are bent Their Malice doth encrease They say no good I meant When I did seek their Peace When I speak fair And straight the Swarm I them all-arm Their Stings prepare Corollarium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may be used or omitted It being another Repetition Return Recollection of the Sence Musick Psalm Ver. 3 4. BUT though the Sland'rers sting Like Lightning pierc'd and burn'd The Stones which he did sling Heav'n in his Face return'd Live Coals from Hell By his bad Tongue And Javelings flung On his Head fell Ver. 2 7. Therefore no more will I Be of such Bruits afraid No more I 'll sigh Ver. 5 6. or cry Though I 'm in Deserts stay'd In all my Ways Who dost afford I 'll Bless Thee Ver. 1 2. Lord Such cause of Praise Though I 'm in Deserts stay'd No more I 'll sigh or cry Or be of Bruits afraid No longer now will I. Such cause of Praise We 'll Bless Thee Lord Thou dost afford In all our Ways Gloria Patri c. Glory be to our King Who shall be was and is Loud Hallelujahs sing To God the God of Peace The Lord of Hosts The Father Son The Three in One And Holy Ghost AMEN CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE First PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXX PSALM O Lord our Redeemer a very present help in trouble as I have found thee heretofore blessed be thy powerful Compassion so I desire to approve thee whensoever as at this time I cry unto thee to deliver my Soul O God! I see that I am fallen into a dangerous Condition by the Lies of the Serpent the Treacheries of my own Flesh and the Falshoods of the World which I have sought and served listened and trusted to and so am justly appay'd with Cousenage and Disgrace with Calumnies and Accusation For what can be had from the Accuser of the Brethren from the deceitfulness of Riches and from the Cheats of all things here below but disappointments and vexation for such as follow lying Vanities forsaking thy Mercies and their own Alas then woe is me that I have heaped up such Coals of Vengeance on my own Head and pierced my Heart through with so many Darts of Sorrow by not delighting in the Tents of the Righteous nor in the Tabernacles of thy Holiness but in the Dwellings of Ungodliness and in the House of the Accursed so that I have deserved indeed to be made a Vagabond like Cain and a Slave like Cham in a perpetual Banishment from Comfort and in a Captivity unto Sin by having my Conversation according to the evil fashion of this Age. But Lord how long how long shall I sojourn either amongst the Enemies of thy Grace or of my Peace Amongst the Superstitious or Idolatrous Amongst those who are after the way of Mesech Or those who dwell in the black aboads of Kedar O! prolong not my Danger and Unhappiness any more among them nor protract my Wandrings with a backsliding People for I seek Peace Peace with Thee with my own Conscience and with all the World But can the Egyptian change his Skin Had Zimri Peace who slew his Master No Lord. There is no Peace thou hast said it to the Wicked who are at defiance with thee and with themselves and make War in the face of Heaven Therefore that I may find Peace I seek thy Pardon and my Soul's Purity and desire thee to preserve me from the Pollutions and Snares of a perverse Generation that dissemble as strange Children that so having no fellowship with the workers of Iniquity I might live in the sweet Communion of thy Saints and to be furthered by their Examples and Conversation in the way of Peace and Holiness For Lord I would be a pacifick Jacob and dwell under the shadow of thy Wings there accounting my self secure though I have no other Covering Thou art the best place to hide me in and 't is not my Sword or Bow shall settle or secure me but thy Mercy thy Grace and thy Spirit No strange Arms here can give me a certain or safe Abode unless thou be on my side Therefore dear God! whilst many rise up against me to trouble me in saying Where is thy God seeking to destroy me with their own quiet be thou a God nigh at hand to deliver me from Treachery Malice Turbulence and Hypocrisie And while my Foes heap Coals of Fire on their own Heads by unjust Actions and hard Speeches let my Mouth be touched with a Coal from thine Altar that I may know how to keep the Door of my Lips from all Cursing and Bitterness Lying and Blasphemies fraudulent and filthy Communication and how to open it in Praying to thee that I may find the Blessings of Peace within above abroad about me by Repentance of my Sins Reformation of my Life Regeneration of my Nature and Reconciliation to thy Love O! let it suffice that I have stayed so long in their Habitations where the Instruments of Cruelty remain where I might have been drawn either unto base Earthly Sorrow and Distraction or to foul Hellish Guilt and Desperation and so to inevitable Destruction both of Soul and Body Let it pity thee to see my poor Soul in such a Sink such a Gaol and Mill in such a nasty vile and slavish State as it hath endured And do thou cover my Head while my Foes make them ready to Battel Then shall I be guarded from the strife of Tongues from the contradiction of Sinners from the reproach that I fear and from Satan that is come forth against me with great wrath because I have called on thy Name while thou art not angry that I cry unto thee Our Father c. THE SECOND Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXI PSALM Is an Act of Acquiescence and Trust in God's Power and Presence made by David as it is thought when hunted like a Partridg on the Mountains and pursued by Saul when he made the 54th 55th and 57th Psalm And this being much used by the Jews in Babylon as most suitable for times of Persecution or Sickness was at their going up from thence appointed to be one of their Psalms of Ascents and therefore to be sung frequently loudly and by Responses which occasioned this Composing it like an Anthem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Stanza's being so pointed and divided as to answer alternately by Disticks if it may better suit the Musick The Title of it hath a difference from the rest as the Rabbins observe being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not as in others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It may be stiled David ' s March made by him or some other considerable Person while he kept the Field either for the safety of his Flocks as Jacob did or of his Friends as Abram Thus did the Royal Shepherd and sweet Singer of Israel exercise and employ his Mind in the grateful Memory of the Divine Goodness Well might he then here