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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

Mansion for us even in thy House O Father And with us be mindful of all Degrees amongst us from David upon the Throne to Job upon the Dunghill be good unto them in all their Cares Vows Prayers Devotions and Afflictions according to the multitude of thy most tender Mercies and comfortable Promises Let the King rejoyce in thy strength O Lord and do thou make his Power to flourish and his Righteousness to blossom like the Rod of Aaron ordain a lustre of Honour and Happiness for him and his House for evermore let not his Candle go out in obscurity nor quench the Light of Israel but let his Enemies be inveloped with disgrace and disappointments and cloath thy Priests and our Church of England with Honour Prosperity and perfect Redemption that the Horn of David may bud amongst us and the Power of 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 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 Psalm as the next 1 Sam. 18. 2 Sam. 1. 2 Sam. 3. 2 Sam. 10. 9. 18. c. 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 Zorchabel 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 For Saint George's or All-Saints Day BE hold how plea sant ' t is 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 Judg. 14.14 strong and sweet 'T is thus to see Men's Hearts and Hands As Jonathan's and David's meet 1 Sam. 18.3 Twisting together in Love's Bands When Prince and People so are one As that the Oyl 2 Sam. 19.39.5.3.19.23 pour'd on his Head 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 Blessings Judg. 6.38 39. Vide Hammond as numberless as Drops Which from Mount Sion deck the Town 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

Crucifixion when I am most cast down or overwhelmed with the Seas of my Anxieties and Trials for the Lord hath been deeply sensible of our Infirmities and touched to the quick with humane Miseries that he might not be fled from as he was formerly both while he stood on Sinai and on Golgotha but that he might be feared and approached unto with Reverence because there is a Propitiation with him for us there is an Attonement made by him our High-Priest Therefore O God! hear my Voice though my Sins cry aloud for Vengeance and thou mayst be more strict than thou wert formerly under the more imperfect Light of Nature or of the Irish Law to mark the failings and stumblings of Mankind now in the lightsom day-time of the Gospel yet do thou my Father Jeremiah and my Prince pity 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 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 thy 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 Cant. 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 levell'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 For Innocents day NO 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

our Lives So that we have been sinking into destruction like those that are howling in the Pit Alas the bitter Streams of our vile imaginations and transgressions have like a deadly draught or Poyson been suck'd in greedily and sent to our very Hearts so that we had been past all means of escape or hope of succour if thou hadst not stood by us as thou didst by thy Servant Paul and not only strengthened but saved us as thou didst the Prophet by drawing us forth as thou didst the Prophet of the dangerous Gulph of estrangement and infidelity into which our triple Enemies would have thrown us Their Power would be great like their Malice Didst not thou take our part O holy Spirit and plead our 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 Psalm of 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 For S. John's day WHO on the Lord do build their Trust like Si on they command up in to Heav'n their Heads they thrust their Feet un mo-ved 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 Hill 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 Divers'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 Gin. 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 Hib. 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 when never so closely begirt by Adversaries They can still look up nay go up to the Hill of Sion from whence comes their help even to Jesus the Author and finisher of their Faith who not only pitched the forces of his Word and Miracles but the red Standard of his Cross and the first Camp of his Martyrs and Apostles upon the Hills of Jerusalem to Convoy all Comers to the City of our God and to draw all to him from the Center of the World Oh therefore let neither the Rod nor the Staff of the Wicked be laid or left upon my score or part lest I do or suffer the evil of Sinners but let thy Rod and thy Shepherds Staff both thy Cross and mine dear Jesu comfort and fill up my Cup and make mine Heritage and Lot like thine For then it shall be good and thou that art so ever wilt do good to me making and keeping me upright in Heart clean in my Hands single in mine Eye of Faith and sound in the Feet of mine Affections steady in the ways of thy Commandments Lord if thy hand be not graciously when most heavily upon me how soon may I put forth my hand unto wickedness like Cain Pharaoh Balaam Achan and Jeroboam and like Judas Ananias and Simon Magus This makes me yet pray more earnestly that Christ may still pray for me since he that Christ prays for shall believe aright and he that so believes shall not find upon his lot the Scepter of Unrighteousness the Rule of Satan the Domination of Sin the Rod of the Wicked the Guilt or Punishment of Reprobates Oh then that my lot and last end may be in the Righteousness of Jesus my Lord that I may not fall presumptuously nor fear greatly nor be driven forth with evil doers but be led forth into the Paths of Peace into the straight way that leads to life there to taste of the Brook in the way the quiet and sufficiency thou affordest thy Flock here and to drink of the Rivers of thy Pleasures hereafter to lye down like thy Sheep in the green Pastures of Hope in the never fading never failing enclosure of thine Arms and to rise in Glory with thine Inheritance for evermore Amen THE SEVENTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXVI PSALM Is thought to be composed by Esdras or some of that time after the Babylonish Bondage because in the first part of the Psalm it joyfully Celebrates the Return of some as in the second part heartily wishes the Restoration of all the rest of the Captivity from the Land of the North as the Realm of Babylon is called Jer. 13.19 20. Jer. 16.15 in regard of its site to Judea making that apt and excellent resemblance of them to Streams running into the dry and desolate parts of the South which must needs be very welcome there and are said to flow thither as Torrents in great abundance upon the melting of the Snows and producing of Showers by the South Wind So that whether you take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for the South Wind or South part of the World the comparison may hold to either acceptation of the Word very full and elegant The Jews flocking Southwards home but not all together as the Spirit of God moved on the Waters in Babylon in the Days of Cyrus Darius and Xerxes stirring up Zerubbabel Ezra Nehemiah and others to bring back the Hebrews restore Religion rebuild the Temple and repair Jerusalem which had been demolished and burnt by Nebuzaradan in the fifth Month 2 Kin. 25.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and in that same Month about Harvest time was the Return of the Jews with Ezra c. 7. v. 9. who had been led away Captive at their Sowing time Therefore the Simile of the Husbandman here was rarely apposite both to the occasion of their Joy and season of the Year and their manner of Exaltation This PSALM is very proper for our 23d of April and 29th of May or any such happy Time of recovery from Trouble Danger and Oppression AFTER the long Night of a State so dark as ours so de so late who could so much as Dream that we should wake out of Cap ti vi ty But when God took that Plague a way that E gypt which on Si on lay our Pangs like Dreams a way did fly and we had safe de li ve ry Pleas'd and transported with our Change By a Recovery so strange Acts 3.9 As Cripples cur'd by Wonders we Soon got both Strength and Liberty Soon we got well well home and found Grief did no Soul no Body wound But Hearts and Tongues in Psalms agree And they got Feet as well as we Then both our Chains and Silence broke Then Pagans too the Truth thus spoke The Lord hath done great things for ye The Lord hath done so answer'd we Therefore God's Works with joy we tell Which may convince the Infidel And call up Pray'rs for such as be Not yet return'd from Slavery O! were our Friends our Foes and all Redeem'd from their Egyptian Thrall From Satan and from Sin set free How welcome were their Liberty Welcom as Nilus in the South And sweet as Show'rs in days of Drouth For all with us we long to see Reap Mirth who plough'd in Misery Sure Lord thy Lab'rers 2 Thes 3.7 8 9. in the heat Who take the pains shall tast the Wheat And may with shouts receive from thee A Largess of Prosperity We who dropt little hopes in Tears When driven hence by Foes or Fears Now loaded back with Solace see Rich Incomes from Captivity Endo ibit flendo portans pretium seminis pretiosum ob caritatem Thus the poor Seeds-man sadly goes While on the ground his Wealth he strows But when the Harvest Crowns him he Veniendo veniet cum exuitatione Jogs home with Sheaves and jollity So they who shed a few small Tears I' th' Seed-time of their Hopes and Fears Shall glad Returns from Sadness see And shock up more Felicity Nay he that goes from hence and bears To Earth his Dust to Heav'n his Tears Shall find those precious Grains to be Vast Crops in blest Eternity Gloria Patri c. In the Lord's Praise