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A97354	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	58,459	102

Godliness shoot forth every where in our Land in the great City in Princes Courts and in thy House and ours so that thou mayest have Mercy on Zion and repair the breaches of thy Jerusalem while she that sate Disconsolate as a Widow may now be feasted with Bread from Heaven with the Manna of Divine Ordinances duly administred so that no Soul amongst us may go empty away but that even he who gathers least may have no lack Exod. 16.18 Lord thou canst make thy holy Viands like David's Provision at the Passover be dealt so plentifully to every one as that none shall be unprovided for or ashamed who depend like Ruth upon thy Bounty but they who despise thee shall be wrapt up in Confusion as in a Cloak Therefore let thy Servants joy in thy Salvation and all our People know the Lord acknowledging his Goodness and his Bounty that blesses the Abundance of the Rich and fills the Hungry with good things that both may have Bread enough and neither want nor repine but seek their Food of God while he makes those that depart wickedly from him to continue in shame and scarcity Ah! that we may stand in a we and not sin lest we inherit the promotion of Fools instead of the Kingdom and Crown of David so provide for us gracious Master in every state and condition as may seem best to thy God-like Wisdom and prove most to thine Eternal Glory if not to ours O! Our Father c. THE FOURTEENTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXXIII PSALM Was composed by David as some think at his Coronation 2 Sam. 5. 1 Chr. 1. 2 Pet. 1.7 1 Sam. 17.29 1 Sam. 18. 2 Sam. 1. 2 Sam. 3. 2 Sam. 10. 9. 18. c. after his eight years Civil War to exhort the People to Love and Amity according to the exhortation of the Apostle for those were the Graces which did most adorn his Life both when a public and a private Person and so this Psahn as the next was fitted for the most Solemn Times of Worship and the happy Return from Bondage and Captivity because it magnifies the pious Accord Uniformity and Blessed Communion of the Church of God in all Times It Celebrates the Excellencies of Love both in and towards God and Man it reflects much Joy from the Consideration of the Mystical Union between Christ and his Members whom he owns as Brethren who shall live and live together also with him though he is their High Priest Rock and Prince according to the most apt Comparisons of the holy Oyl and high-born Dew which Similies In Zorobabel and Joshua Types of the Messiah as well as the Subject were so well calculated to the Time when there was a Prince and an High Priest restored again to Israel that it is no wonder we find it placed among the Graduals Some apply it to all the Israelites Love one towards another who were Brethren of the same Stock as we are all in Adam and likewise to their Love of their Ruler who was higher than the rest as was shewn in Saul like Mount Hermon and Sion more advancing than other Hills Therefore to animate us with the like affections towards our Brethren Parents and Superiours they say the Priest's Blessing is compared to the Sacred Oyl and the Prince's Favour to the fruitful Dew according to that expression of the Wisest of Kings which descends from the highest to the lowest and is both pleasant and profitable to all Prov. 19.12 as the Heathen Poet Meander once quoted by St. Paul himself could say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some of the Rabbins think it a particular Eulogy of the Concord and Conformity among the Priests in their Religious Exercises and therefore mention is made of Aaron the most Anointed of the Lord as he may be termed rather than chief Anointed because most Oyl was expended on him BE╌hold how plea╌sant ' t is For Saint George's or All-Saints Day how good But O! how rare and hard to find Brethren of the same House and Blood be╌come of the same way and mind Like Sampson's Honey strong and sweet Judg. 14.14 'T is thus to see Men's Hearts and Hands As Jonathan's and David's meet Twisting together in Love's Bands 1 Sam. 18.3 When Prince and People so are one As that the Oyl pour'd on his Head 2 Sam. 19.39 5.3 19.23 Down to the lowest Limb doth run In Grace and Peace and Pardon spread 'T is like the precious Ointment shed Levit. 8.12 Upon the High Priest's hallow'd Crown Which both perfum'd his Beard and Head And thence upon his Clothes fell down Thus have I seen Clouds big with Rain First give their Dews to all the Hills And then show'r Wealth on the low Plain As Friendship benefits distills On Friendship 's Fleece God's Love brings down Judg. 6.38 39. Blessings as numberless as Drops Which from Mount Sion deck the Town Vide Hammond And cloath the Fields from Hermon's Tops As to the Vale these Mountains are So to the Weak the Potent prove Useful and kind though distant far Yet center'd like the World by Love For all our Comforts come from Love By Love God gives the Happy Life That Blest below and best above There without end here without strife Gloria Patri Glory to him who makes our Bliss To the one God in Persons three As in beginning was now is And shall be to Eternity AMEN CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Fourteenth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXXIII PSALM O Blessed Father who hast made many of us of one Blood and Kind O blessed Saviour who hast made us many of one Bread and one Lump O blessed Spirit who art the Love both of the Father and of the Son shed this abroad into all our Hearts abundantly look upon us graciously O thou only one most loving and pitying Lord God! that we may look upon thee better though it be but darkly at the best in that Sea of Glass before the Throne in that clearest mirror and reflection of thy favour to Mankind to wit in Christ incarnate in whom God is most 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

Cause O sweetest Jesus Blessed be thy omnipotent and most glorious Mercy that hath made our Souls as a Bird that may fly up to Heaven and be secure We praise and thank thee dearest Father for those Wings of Faith Prayer Love and Devotion whereby we can escape the Snare of the cunning Fowler and all his noysom Plagues and Temptations O! still cover us both with thy gracious Protection and with the lovely Wings of the Holy of Holies so that we may break the Bands of Satan asunder and cast away his Cords from us and neither have the Eyes of our Faith held from seeing thee nor the Feet of our Affections from seeking thee but like thy beloved and most loving Disciples Peter and John leave our Nets whereby we take others and all those Entanglements whereby we are so caught our selves and throw off every Impediment for the better following of our Master Christ under the Patronage of whose Love and Power we would roost and nestle our Beings for ever For it is he that hath made Heaven and Earth for us for our Habitation and will make a new Heaven and Earth about us for our Regeneration And since this is a greater Blessing than the first Creation of Man let our delivery from the Jaws of Hell bring him more Honour than all his other Dealings with us even Glory for evermore Amen THE SIXTH Psalmof Degrees BEING The CXXV PSALM Like the 11th Psalm sheweth David's Trust and Recourse to God not like Saul to the Witch of Endor or Wealth of Amalek but where Believers are established and secured in the Presence of the Almighty and perpetuity of the Church whereby they find the goodness of their Portion and the evil Lot of the Wicked whatsoever he be whether Hypocritical Profane or Backsliding It is applied by the Rabbins to the Days of the Messiah and so by us it may be appositely used on Sacramental Days or any such time of greater manifestation and experience of God's Integrity and the Faith of Man WHO on the Lord do build their Trust For S. John's day like Siâ•Œon they command up inâ•Œto Heav'n their Heads they thrust their Feet unâ•Œmoâ•Œved stand Right safe high strong they always stand Like God's most Holy ground The Rock of Ages on each hand Doth shade them and surround As Hills Jerusalem surround To deck her and defend So God encircles and hath crown'd His folk World without end As Hills c. For least in Sin their Suff'rings end Though an Egyptian * For the Rod or Scepter of Wickedness is the Tyranny of a Pharaonick Oppression over the lot of the Righteous that is the Church of God which he may lay on but will not leave nor suffer to lye still God having the Rod of their Portion in his hand alluding to the old way of Sortition by Staves whereof see Numb 17. and Josh 18. For the Reasons mentioned observe how aptly the Portions of the Wicked let them be never so fat or fair like Esau's here are termed Rods to plague oft-times both themselves and others as Dives's Portion did But the Portion of the Godly is stiled a Lot and a pleasant one as David's 16 Psal 6. or a Cup of Blessing indeed like Jacob's and of abundance like Benjamin's Gen. 33.11 Gen. 44.2 Rod To th' Goshen of the good extend 'T is thence remov'd by God Do good still to the Good O Lord To him whose Heart and Line Bend not to wrong whose Feet ne're trod Ways which to Hell encline Since such as crooked ways encline To do or cherish ill God shall drive from him but design Peace to his Israel For such c. Gloria Patri c. To Father Son and * The suddain change in the expression of God from the second Person to the third As it is an elegancy in the Original so it may note such shall not know God in the second Person of the Trinity as a Saviour but at a far greater distance as a Judge Heb. 10.38 39. who draw back and turn aside perverting their way which is already crooked Prov. 14.2 to more depraved Obliquities and desperate Apostacy after a profession of the right way But they shall be tortured with Hypocrites and Unbelievers while he shall be kept like Israel Gen. 32. in perfect Peace whose Mind is stayed on God Isa 26.3 to the greater vexation of those Edomites who perhaps sometime persecuted him Ghost we bow One glorious God w' adore As in beginning was is now And shall be evermore CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Sixth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXV PSALM O Thou immutable Lord God most faithful Creator Redeemer and Comforter I desire not only to believe of thee in the world to credit what thou art in thy self but to trust to what thou sayest in thy Gospel to rely on thee for what thou dost at present and acquiesce in thee for what thou wilt do hereafter and stay my self on thee through thine everlasting good pleasure For thou art the Lord that dost not change and therefore we are not consumed but are converted from Creatures to thy Children confirmed from our weaknesses by thy Spirit and continued in thy service with thy self Ah the safety the assurance the steadiness the solace the sole and supernatural satisfaction that is in fulness of Faith upon thee the Messiah the Lamb of God who makest us thereby the Temples of the living God the City of the Lamb the New Jerusalem that shall ascend up above and be made illustrious with all the Jewels of the concord regularity and brightness of Spiritual Graces as with the eternal Riches of ineffable Love and heavenly Glory So that we shall never be removed from our Abode in Jesus Christ thou hast made our Rock so strong and if we believe surely we shall be establish'd for ever for the foundation of God stands sure As we shall here be surrounded with the munition of Rocks the Rock of Ages and all his Angels like Jerusalem the holy City so also we shall be wholly blest and saved to the very uttermost For neither the blasts of Temptation the Spirit that rules in the Children of Disobedience shall attack the corners of our Dwellings as he did Job's Sons nor from the Wilderness assault us as he did our Saviour to spoil our Labours or our hopes Nor shall the storms of Tribulation be able to beat upon our House so as to make it shake or totter For though our building of Faith be raised high even unto the Heavens yet it is no Babel it is no Jericho but a Fabrick that the Lord will bless and defend and because it stands upright it shall stand fast for ever The strength of our confidence in God shall put to flight the Armies of those Aliens that would enter and destroy its strong holds for there are Mountains of Horses and Chariots of Fire round about the Faithful to secure them so that they cannot be immur'd or shut up

me in the Dungeon of my Corruptions and draw my Feet out of the Mire of my Lusts out of the Clay of my earthly Mindedness out of the Waters of my worldly Sorrows and bring me to the desired Shore of thy sure Mercies in Christ Jesus set my feet on the Rock and order my Goings that my Foot-steps may not slip but that I may walk in the Land of the Living unto the Land of Promise and when I go down to the bottom of the Mountains and the Weeds are wrapt about my Head Jonas 2.5 6 and the Earth with her Bars enclose me on every side that then I may not be cast out of thy sight nor into the Bonds of mine Iniquities nor into the Belly of the lowest Hell O our Father since thou hast not left thy Son there grant that my Life may be brought up from Corruption I know Salvation is from thee alone and with thee infinite abundance of Bowels of the tenderest Compassions why thou shouldest be reverenced and repaired unto there is a Jesus in thy Bosom to redeem from all Sins from Dangers Enemies and Troubles and to represent us cover'd with his Righteousness otherwise shouldest thou view us in our Original Nakedness or actual Filthiness we could not stand before thee in Judgment But since there is Forgiveness with thee O God! there is cause enough why we should fly unto thee trust in thee wait on thee and watch for thee more than they who watch for the Morning for if Light be so grateful to those who walk in Darkness how amiable is thy Countenance to us in the gloominess of this present State And how much more lovely will it be when we lie down in the Night of Death that the Day-spring from on high may visit us and bring the joyful Morning of a Resurrection both from Sin and the Grave O! do thou make hast my beloved Saviour and be as a Roe and a young Hart Caut. 2. on the Mountain of Spices Thou that art the Hart of the Morning who out of the midst of thy deepest Woes and dying Pangs didst cry unto God for us do thou send us timely help for we would seek thee early in the prime of our Age hastening from the very dawn of our Lives to prevent the Night-Watches and like thy Spouse or beloved Mary to see the Sun of Righteousness risen on the Earth before we get to our Zoar. O! that our Prayers might ascend like Incense by the meritorious lifting up of thy Body for us Dear Lord impute no Guilt to us but cleanse us from all that we may be blessed and holy and happy as we beg to be for thy own sake O gracious Saviour to whom be Glory c. THE TWELFTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXXI PSALM Was composed by David in the life-time of Saul when most humble innocent and distant from the Succession to the Crown though then suspected envied and accused It was appointed to be used at the Jews Return because no temper better qualifies us for God's Mercy nor more becomes us under the greatest Mercies such as those we have enjoyed than that Humility Self-denial Resignation and Affiance in God's Will which are here exemplified in the first and second Verses and exhorted unto in the last While the Psalmist with that frequent Elegancy in the holy Tongue suppresseth the Imprecation and imposeth a kind of Silence upon himself after his Attestation proceeding to an Asseveration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If I have not c. viz. still'd and pacifi'd my Soul as the Waves Ievell'd and smooth'd my Brow like the face of the Ground and have put my Hand upon my Mouth viz. I have ceased from crying and throbbing as at the Mother's command the Child doth who although weaned can without Sollicitude yield and conform to the Mother's Direction and Provision Thus the Comparison is fitly squared As a Child is in quiet and order with its Mother so is my Soul with me As the Jewish Arab. notes the Repetition to import I have weaned it from Transgressions Non arrogavi mihi magna mirabilia inconcessa inhonesta as the first Verse intimates and this whole Psalm saith Grotius savours much of a Gospel Spirit as of that gracious and modest Disposition with which David was endowed eminently so as to make him be stiled After God's own Heart NO For Innocents day Lord I do not look too high tho to this lof╌ty pitch I fly to seek thy Throne and Ma╌je╌sty No Earthly Crown do I de╌sign nor as my Sov'raign's Son to shine my sole Am╌bi╌tion's to be thine Like Bethshemites I dare not pry In things for me too Great too High My Heart is humble as mine Eye But the proud Foe my Heart mistook Whilst I his Frowns did fairly brook Without returning one Ill look I soon lay quiet to control The froward Passions that did roll Like Waves about to move my Soul My Soul is hush't like a wean'd Child That from the Mother's sight exil'd To any thing 's strait reconcil'd And surely I my self behave Like a wise Man while thus I crave Like a weak Child what I would have May Isr'el do as I have done To all things here indiff'rent grown Trust always But in God alone May Isr'el do as we c. Gloria Patri c. Give Glory Praise Dominion To God the Father with the Son And Spirit thrice Bless'd Three in One. Sicut erat in Principio c. Now let us all the Lord adore Who is the same as heretofore And shall be King for evermore HOSANNA Another VERSION of Psalm CXXXI To be sung as Mr. George Sandys Paraphrase Psal 1. LORD 2 Sam. 6.21 22. Acts 13.22 I 'le prelude to my Lord's humblest part That I may be the Man after thine Heart I hate proud Looks and glance not up an Eye At things too hard too hidden or too high But as a Child whom its kind Mother weans Loving the Breast yet on her Bosom leans I hold me at thy Hand nor once repine But quietly repose receive resign Wishing our Isr'el thus may trust God still And frame their State according to thy Will CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Twelfth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXXI PSALM O Thou Son of David of whom we ought to learn to be Meek and Lowly let us see what kind of Disciples we are by regarding our dear Master and find what Proficients in thy School by minding the Copy thou hast set us There appeared not the least glance of Pride Arrogance or Self-love in thy Behaviour there was not the least Root of Bitterness in thy Breast for thou camest to Attone the first Sin of our first Parents and so for all thou wert exalted far above all that are here called Gods yet thy Spirit was not haughty as Lucifer's nor thine Eyes lift up to the forbidden Fruit. Mark 13 32. Thou wert willing to be ignorant as Man of those things which did not