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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49178	The ascents of the soul, or, David's mount towards God's house being paraphrases on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees / written in Italian, by ... Gio. Francesco Loredano ..., 1656 ; render'd into English, Anno Dom. 1665.; Gradi dell'anima. English	Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.; Coleraine, Hugh Hare, Baron, 1606?-1667.	1681 (1681)	Wing L3065; ESTC R6897	69,621	80

be took for a Jesuit If I conceal some of his Expressions 't is not to abuse his intent of appearing to the World a true Catholick he is now I trust Orthodox and English too Nor would I damp his Spiritual Heats while I fan Superstition from his great Ingenuity and Zeal I know the Silk his words put on is pure Venetian of too curious a Fabrick for me to mend or indeed to meddle with farther than to add a List of courser Materials to the Piece Lest it should seem too nice in its Address to the holy Altars and there be reproved like an Agag for its Delicacy falling under the Censures which many such Works have incurr'd of having more Wit than Zeal in it and too much Rhetorick for much Religion I have rebated the point of Loredano's stile and where I have cut off some reiterated Elegancies and Musical words that as long Fuges were but to the same Tune I took away the Lap of the Senator's Robe I hope without doing him any injury at all 'T is pity a rich Sleeve should be so long as to hang like their Laticlavians in the Dirt Acts 25.23 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or that Berenice's appearance should hinder Agrippa's Christianity I am more apt to exclude Tertullus than St. Paul and therefore instead of Oratory put in Scripture into the Work that what is lost in Fancy may be retrieved in Devotion And surely no time nor labour would be lost could I be but as much more useful to the Reader as I should be just to the Writer in setting forth his Thoughts with the same pious Impressions and Advantages which they once brought to my Heart To this they have done good as I may publickly own and I am not of so strait so narrow a Spirit as not to endeavour to communicate a good according to the Nature and my Experience of it Indeed before I travell'd into Italy I heard so much ill said of that Country especially of the Venetians in it that I was possessed with a prejudice like his John 1.46 who cryed Can there any good come out of Galile● And also prompted by the irreligion of too many Travellers to think that Contagion the Epidemical Disease of Foreigners principally those of higher Rank Therefore when I went abroad lest I should learn Vices more fast than Language or live as formerly in the proud Greek and Roman conceit that every Land was barbarous but our own and all the World was naught but England I was curious to find out what was Spiritual and rightly so called beyond Sea if the lawful Issue of a Noble Laick I look'd upon such a piece of Devotion as more capable of doing good than the more elaborate Volumes of Churchmen who are not thought well enough on because they make it their business to write well whereas the slighter Essays of other Gentlemen which are not of the long Robe fall more gratefully into the hands of great Persons and by Emulation of the precedent if no better motive work often upon them some Pious effect Being acquainted with the Truth before-mentioned and with the mighty number of Memoires and other Works lately put forth by the Noblemen of France I ramass'd a good quantity of the most Illustrious modern Writers in Italy and amongst them the first which I laid hold on was the Third of the seven Volumes of the Honourable Signor Gio. Francesco Loredano's Works Stamp à Venetia 1654. which though set out with all the Garnish that the Poets and Painters could enrich them with yet discouraged my perusal of them because I found the beginning of this Volume very Toyish and Romantic 'Till I consider'd that Men's Books are oftentimes like their Lives the first Parts of them slight and youthfull and such Leaves as will scarce hide a Nakedness nay were better skipt over than perused yet their latter Ends may be Grave and Pious well-order'd and disposed as the Frize and Cornice of all their Works So I searched on for the Pearl among the Shells and left not this great and brisk Wit 'till I found him terminate so well in Meditation as that I fixed my hand upon his Table thus to Copy out his Piety if not his Eloquence and to say to those who cried Come from among them Come and see is not here a Prophet Though he might have been formerly a Saul he is now with the divinest David and this his properest Subject merited Discovery though it lay hid like Saul in a heap of Stuff Nor was I content only to open the Mine or fetch out the Oar but also to fine it from the Dross that this silken Ladder might be useful where stronger like the Bibles were not so portable for to raise or keep up some Devotion in me And this I thank God it did by my often looking on it as La Scala Santa once had done too when it happened to me at Rome as to St. Paul at Athens that I had a good opportunity from an Idolatrous place to pray with much Fervour and Charity for my self and all Men that we might not be mistaken or Hypocritical in our Worshippings of God while with Pity I considered the Superstitions of some Christians there who adored Stocks and Stones more than their Maker and with shame thought upon the Prophaneness of others among Protestants that would not allow God a peculiar manner nor place of Worship Thus have you the occasion of the Title I give to this Book and shall have something concerning the Frontispiece Though by the way take notice that I was never a Promoter of Superstitious Pilgrimages nor so far reconciled to the Church of Rome as to follow her Steps farther than the Church of England approves them For all I have gone up the Stairs above-mentioned and the Ascents of Loredano's Soul I hope with some such true Efforts as that Illustrios Senator design'd in his Preface and endeavour'd in his Paraphrase to which good Act this is but a Scene or rather as the Curtain which may now be drawn away lest it hinder the Spectators better Objects I have fancied the whole Piece to be a Sk●tch of Jacob's Vision and David's Psalter like Israel's Scale reaching to the Divine Throne whereon devout Spirits have scope to run descant up and down and by the various Motions of their Piety as by the several Degrees of their Understandings they make better Music than the imagin'd Spheres could ever be supposed to do For surely thereupon is grounded the best Harmony of Heaven and Earth and thereon we shall meet with a grateful Consort when we are left never so much alone by the World For they who make no use of the Psalms nor Feast upon them by frequent Meditation are as obnoxious to Errors as I can be in any of these Thoughts Therefore like a Travelling Pilgrim to Mount Sion I pursue my Journey hoping to reach the end of it by doing some good to my self if not