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The vvorks of Ioseph Hall Doctor in Diuinitie, and Deane of Worcester With a table newly added to the whole worke.; Works. Vol. 1
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Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.; Lo., Ro.
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beneficence Vpon thy people largely spread PSALME 4. As the ten Commandements Attend my people THou witnesse of my truth sincere My God vnto my poore request Vouchsafe to lend thy gracious eare Thou hast my soule from thrall releast verse 2 Fauour me still and dâ—igne to heare Mine humble sute O wretched wights verse 3 How long will yee mine honour deare Turne into shame through your despights Still will ye loue what thing is vaine verse 4 And seeke false hopes know then at last That God hath chose and will maintaine His fauorite whom yee disgrac't God will regard my instant mone verse 5 Oh! tremble then and cease offending And on your silent bed alone Talke with your hearts your waies amending verse 6 Offer the truest sacrifice Of broken hearts on God besetting verse 7 Your onely trust The most deuise The waies of worldly treasure getting But thou O Lord lift vp to me The light of that sweet looke of thine verse 8 So shall my soule more gladsome be Than theirs with all their corne and wine verse 9 So I in peace shall lay me downe And on my bed take quiet sleepe Whiles thou O Lord shalt me alone From dangers all securely keepe PSALME 5. In the tune of 124. Psalme Now Israel may say c. BOw downe thine eare Lord to these words of mine And well regard the secret plaints I make verse 2 My King my God to thee I doe betake My sad estate oh doe thine eare incline To these loud cries that to thee powred bin verse 3 At early morne thou shalt my voice attend For at day breake I will my selfe addresse Thee to implore and wait for due redresse verse 4 Thou dost not Lord delight in wickednesse Nor to bad men wilt thy protection lend verse 5 The boasters proud cannot before thee stay Thou hat'st all those that are to sinne deuoted verse 6 The lying lips and who with bloud are spotted Thou doest abhorre and wilt for euer slay verse 7 But I vnto thine house shall take the way And through thy grace abundant shall adore With humble feare within thy holy place verse 8 Oh! lead me Lord within thy righteous trace Euen for their sakes that malice me so sore Make smooth thy paths my dimmer eies before verse 9 Within their mouth no truth is euer found Pure mischiefe is their heart a gaving toome verse 10 Is their wide throat and yet their tongues still sound verse 11 With smoothing words O Lord giue them their doome And let them fall in those their plots profound In their excesse of mischiefe them destroy verse 12 That Rebels are so those that to thee flie Shall all reioyce and sing eternally verse 13 And whom thou dost protect and who loue thee And thy deare name in thee shall euer ioy Since thou with blisse the righteous dost reward And with thy grace as with a shield him guard PSALME 6. As the 50. Psalme The mighty God c. LEt me not Lord be in thy wrath reproued Oh! scourge me not when thy fierce wrath is moued verse 2 Pity me Lord that doe with languor pine Heale me whose bones with paine dissolued bin verse 3 Whose weary soule is vexed aboue measure Oh Lord how long shall I bide thy displeasure verse 4 Turne thee O Lord rescue my soule distrest verse 5 And saue me of thy grace 'Mongst those that rest In silent death can none remember thee And in the graue how shouldst thou praised be verse 6 Weary with sighes All night I caus'd my bed To swim with teares my couch I watered verse 7 Deepe sorrow hath consum'd my dimmed eyne Sunke in with griefe at these lewd foes of mine verse 8 But now hence hence vaine plotters of mine ill The Lord hath heard my lamentations shrill verse 9 God heard my suit and still attends the same verse 10 Blush now my foes and flie with sudden shame PSALME 7. As the 112. Psalme The man is blest that God c. ON thee O Lord my God relies My onely trust from bloudy spight Of all my raging enemies Oh! let thy mercy me acquite verse 2 Lest they like greedy Lyons rend My soule while none shall it defend verse 3 O Lord if I this thing haue wrought If in my hands be found such ill verse 4 If I with mischiefe euer sought To pay good turnes or did not still Doe good vnto my causelesse foe That thirsted for my ouerthrow verse 5 Then let my foe in eager chace Ore-take my soule and proudly tread My life below and with disgrace In dust lay downe mine honour dead verse 6 Rise vp in rage O Lord eft-soone Aduance thine arme against my foâ—ne And wake for me till thou fulfill verse 7 My promis'd right so shall glad throngs Of people flocke vnto thine hill For their sakes then reuenge my wrong's verse 8 And râ—use thy selfe Thy iudgements be O're all the world Lord iudge thou me As truth and honest innocence Thou find'st in me Lord iudge thou me verse 9 Settle the iust with sure defence Let me the wicked's malice see verse 10 Brought to an end For thy iust eye Doth heart and inward reynes descry verse 11 My safety stands in God who shields The sound in heart whose doome each day verse 12 To iust men and contemners yeelds verse 13 Their due Except he change his way His sword is whet to bloud intended His murdering Bow is ready bended verse 14 Weapons of death he hath addrest And arrowes keene to pierce my foe verse 15 Who late bred mischiefe in his brest But when he doth on trauell goe verse 16 Brings forth a lie deepe pits doth delue And fals into his pits himselue verse 17 Backe to his owne head shall rebound His plotted mischiefe and his wrongs verse 18 His crowne shall craze But I shall sound Iehouah's praise with thankfull songs And will his glorious name expresse And tell of all his righteousnesse PSALME 8. As the 113. Psalme Yee children which c. HOw noble is thy mighty Name O Lord o're all the worlds wide frame Whose glory is aduanc't on high Aboue the rowling heauens racke verse 2 How for the gracelesse scorners sake To still th' auenging enemy Hast thou by tender infants tongue The praise of thy great Name made strong While they hang sucking on the brest verse 3 But when I see the heauens bright The moone and glittering starres of night By thine almighty hand addrest verse 4 Oh! what is man poore silly man That thou so mind'st him and dost daine To looke at his vnworthy seed verse 5 Thou hast him set not much beneath Thine Angels bright and with a wreath Of glory hast adorn'd his head verse 6 Thou hast him made high soueraigne verse 7 Of all thy works and stretcht his raigne Vnto the heards and beasts vntame verse 8 To Fowles and to the scaly traine That glideth through the watry Maine verse 9 How noble each-where is thy Name PSALME 9. To the
also in the Sacraments Yea besides promise hand seale hath he not giuen thee a sure earnest of thy saluation in some weake but true graces Yet more hath he not giuen thee besides Earnest possession while he that is the Truth and Life saith He that beleeueth hath euerlasting life and hath passed from death to life Canst thou not then be content to cast thy selfe vpon this blessed issue If God be mercifull I am glorious I haue thee already Oh my life God is faithfull and I doe beleeue who shall separate me from the loue of Christ from my glory with Christ Who shall pull me out of my heauen Goe to then and returne to thy rest O my soule make vse of that heauen wherein thou art and be happy Thus we haue found that our Meditation like the wind gathereth strength in proceeding and as naturall bodies the neerer they come to their places moue with more celeritie so doth the soule in this course of Meditation to the vnspeakable benefit of it selfe CHAP. XXXV THe Conclusion remaineth The Conclusion of our Meditation in what order it must be wherein we must aduise like as Physicians doe in their sweats and exercise that we cease not ouer-suddenly but leaue off by little and little The minde may not be suffered to fall head-long from this height but must also descend by degrees The first whereof after our Confidence shall bee an heartie Gratulation First with Thanksgiuing and thanksgiuing For as man naturally cannot be miserable but he must complaine and craue remedie so the good heart cannot finde it selfe happy and not be thankfull and this thankfulnesse which it feeleth and expresseth maketh it yet more good and affecteth it more What shall I then doe to thee for this mercy O thou Sauiour of men What should I render to my Lord for all his benefits Alas what can I giue thee which is not thine owne before Oh that I could giue thee but all thine Thou giuest me to drinke of this cup of saluation I will therefore take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord Praise thou the Lord O my soule and all that is within mee praise his holy name And since here thou beginnest thine heauen begin here also that ioyfull song of thanksgiuing which there thou shalt sing more sweetly and neuer end CHAP. XXXVI Secondly with Recommendation of our soules and waies to God AFter this Thanksgiuing shall follow a faithfull recommendation of our selues to God wherein the soule doth cheerefully giue vp it selfe and repose it selfe wholly vpon her Maker and Redeemer committing her selfe to him in all her waies submitting her selfe to him in all his waies desiring in all things to glorifie him and to walke worthy of her high and glorious calling Both which latter shall be done as I haue euer found with much life and comfort if for the full conclusion we shall lift vp our heart and voice to God in singing some Versule of Dauids diuine Psalmes answerable to our disposition and matter whereby the heart closes vp it selfe with much sweetnesse and contentment This course of Meditation thus heartily obserued let him that practiseth it tell mee whether hee finde not that his soule which at the beginning of this exercise did but creepe and grouell vpon earth doe not now in the conclusion soare aloft in heauen and being before aloose off doe not now finde it selfe neere to God yea with him and in him CHAP. XXXVII An Epilogue THus haue I endeuoured Right Worshipfull Sir according to my slender facultie to prescribe a method of Meditation not vpon so strict tearmes of necessitie that whosoeuer goeth not my way erreth Diuers paths leade oft times to the same end and euery man aboundeth in his owne sense If experience and custome hath made another forme familiar to any man I forbid it not as that learned Father said of his Translation Let him vse his owne not contemne mine If any man be to chuse and begin let him practise mine till he meet with a better Master If another course may be better Reprouing the neglect of Meditation I am sure this is good Neither is it to be suffered that like as fantasticall men while they doubt what fashioned sute they should weare put on nothing so that we Christians should neglect the matter of this worthy businesse while wee nicely stand vpon the forme thereof Wherein giue mee leaue to complaine with iust sorrow and shame that if there be any Christian dutie whose omission is notoriously shamefull and preiudiciall to the soules of Professors it is this of Meditation This is the very end God hath giuen vs our soules for we misse-spend them if we vse them not thus How lamentable is it that we so imploy them as if our facultie of discourse serued for nothing but our earthly prouision as if our reasonable and Christian minds were appointed for the slaues and drudges of this body onely to bee the Caters and Cookes of our Appetite The world filleth vs yea cloieth vs we finde our selues worke enough to thinke What haue I yet How may I get more What must I lay out What shall I leaue for posteritie How may I preuent the wrong of mine Aduersary How may I returne it What answers shall I make to such allegations What entertainment shall I giue to such friends What courses shall I take in such suits In what pastime shall I spend this day In what the next What aduantage shall I reape by this practice what losse What was said answered replied done followed Goodly thoughts and fit for spirituall minds Say there were no other world how could we spend our cares otherwise Vnto this onely neglect let mee ascribe the commonnesse of that Laodicean temper of men or if that be worse of the dead coldnesse which hath stricken the hearts of many hauing left them nothing but the bodies of men and visors of Christians to this onely They haue not meditated It is not more impossible to liue without an heart than to bee deuout without Meditation Exhorting to the vse of Meditation Would God therefore my words could be in this as the Wise-man saith the words of the wise are like vnto Goades in the sides of euery Reader to quicken him vp out of this dull and lazie securitie to a cheerefull practice of this Diuine Meditation Let him curse mee vpon his death-bed if looking backe from thence to the bestowing of his former times hee acknowledge not these houres placed the most happily in his whole life if he then wish not hee had worne on t more daies in so profitable and heauenly a worke A MEDITATION OF DEATH ACCORDING to the former Rules The Entrance ANd now my soule that thou hast thought of the end what can fit thee better than to thinke of the way And though the forepart of the way to Heauen bee a good life the latter and more immediate is death shall