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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

pray and hope like a Souldier that God would be his Shade as well as his Shield as near to him as his shadow that the Sun might not hurt him by Day nor the Moon by Night as Absalom and Achitophel the one by Day and the other by Night intended to have done And if we look on David as he went up the Ascent of Mount Olivet This Psalm was very proper for his Condition then as it is for any Person 's now in the interval of War the Phrases being throughout the whole Psalm Military and allusive to Souldiers besieged as in the first Verse relieved as in the second all-arm'd as in the third secured watched and guarded as in the fourth shielded and surrounded as in the fifth and sixth in the seventh and eighth hemm'd in and convoy'd out for Victory and Triumph For the Second of September and October Here shall I seek for aid where shall I set mine Eyes mine Eyes and Pray'rs like Birds afraid up to the Hills would rise But whither would they rise un to some dangerous height O no this Quarry thither flies whence springs our help and light Nor hath our Health and Light From things below their Birth But from the highest Rock of Might Who made both Heav'n and Earth Therefore though false foul Earth Thy Soul with Foes surround Shall it be mov'd from holy Mirth Shall Cares run it on Ground Gen. 8.11 Christ is the Ark to ground Thy Heart on when distrest From head to foot he 'll make thee sound Gen. 28.11 On him did Jacob rest Non dormitabit multo minù● dormiet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quamvis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex impatientiâ lugentis Deus obdormire dicitut Psal 44.24 But he doth never rest From doing good nor sleeps Gen. 32.2 That with such Guards thou may'st be blest As he his Israel keeps Psal 22.1 4. Good Shepherd he doth keep His Flock ev'n in Death's shade See then if thou art of his Sheep How on thy side he 's laid Though Dangers have way-laid Thy going out or in See how thy Husband's Arm 's display'd Isa 54.5 To save thy very Skin Dan. 3.27 Like the three Children's Skin Thine shall be scorch'd by none Whatever Heat thou may'st be in Whatever Star hath shown Nor shall the Moon nor Sun Hurt thee by Night or Day No Mischief seen nor closely done Shall touch thee any way God shall preserve thy Ways And Mind from all that 's ill In Youth And when thy Life decays Blessed thou shalt be still Then trust and bless him still Who endless Safety sends God through this Vale of Sorrows will Guide us to joyful ends The Entrance Progress Ends Public and private Pow'rs Labours and Studies of his Friends God blesses at all hours Then trust and bless him still Who still did us defend God doth and ever will Antistrophe Give Blessings without end Give Blessings without end God doth and ever will He still did us defend Then trust and bless him still The Entrance Progress Ends Public and private Pow'rs And Works of all his Friends God blesses Lord bless Ours Gloria Patri c. To God the Father and the Son And to the Holy-Ghost Be Glory And let ev'ry one Strive who shall praise God most CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Second PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXI PSALM I Will lift up my Heart to thee O Lord And though it be cast down with the dangers and diffidence I am in while mine Afflictions and mine Enemies have cast a Mount about me to hinder me from the sight and hope of Succour yet have I God's Hill to fly unto and from thy House I can survey the end of the Wicked the Redemption of thy Captives and the height of thy Power that is higher than the highest But O the depth of thy Love What a pleasant Vale is this under it How doth this smile and sing and stand full of Corn that strengthens Man's Heart So that although I remain in the Valley of the shadow of Death if I can but look up to the Rock that is higher than I to Christ the Shecinah the true Mercy Seat that is placed above the Cherubims all Types and Symbols of his Presence I shall neither lose my Faith nor my Life I shall not be discomfitted nor enslaved like a surprized Zedekiah I shall not be famished nor broken up like a long besieged Jerusalem Though mine Enemies hem me in on every side and carnal Fear cause me to cry out as the Prophet's Servant What shall we do Yet if I can but lift up mine Eyes to thee which indeed are naturally as heavy as Moses his Hand I shall perceive somewhat else besides Perils and Foes on every side I shall find the Mountains full of Chariots of Fire and more for me than can be against me For an Host of Angels shall pitch their Tents about me to secure me and those mighty Ministers of thy good pleasure shall keep me like Daniel from the power of the Lyon So that my most Savage Enemies shall lack and suffer hunger while I want nothing that is good For though my way be hedged up that I cannot pass which way I would nor follow the Lusts of my Heart and the desires of mine Eyes as many do yet I may look up with joy and confidence as I trust I shall at the last day because my Salvation is drawing nigh My Hope my Help cometh from the Lord not from the Angels in his Presence but from the Angel of his Presence and of his Covenant the Blessed JESUS who having taken our Nature that he might be sensible of our Infirmities ever abides with Humanity at thy right Hand making Intercession for us And as he made the Heavens and the Earth for us so he makes a new Heaven and a new Earth of us by justifying and sanctifying both our Souls and Bodies through the mighty Work of his Spirit in his Word and Sacraments For these are the Mountains of the Lord wherein he is apparently seen Glorious in Holiness Fearful in Praises doing Wonders and abounding in Goodness and Truth If we Worship him as our Fathers did in these Mountains in the heights of Sincerity and Devotion we may expect to hear God promising us graciously as he did Abraham that he will be a God to us and to our Seed after us And we may hope to see him as Manoah and his Wife did in the Zealous performances of his holy Worship in the Flame arising from the Altar of our Hearts from whence God would not accept a Service if he desired the Death of Sinners Therefore we may be assured that if we keep in his ways he will keep us in ours as he did his Israel both by the Pillar of Fire and by the Pillar of a Cloud by the flame of Affliction as well as by the light of Prosperity And while we lay hold on these as Sampson did

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

our Hearts to the last Harvest of our Lives and be able to bless many others as Boaz did in the Name of thee Our Father c. TO thee dear God! be all the Dominion the Power and Glory of my Being for thou hast prepared it from the fury of my Adversaries ever since the first motions of that evil Figment in my Heart which hath broke out often into evil Concupiscences and endeavoured to plough with my Heifer to plot with my naughty Flesh to bind and to deliver me a Prisoner unto Satan but my Lusts have not led me Captive nor plough'd upon my Back as they conspired to do for thou O Lord most just and holy wouldest not suffer them to Tyrannize or Triumph too long over me but hast broke those Bands of Wickedness and cast their Cords from me that I might be thy Servant and you the Lord my Righteousness So that I trust they shall be confounded that contend with thee for my Soul and I shall not be ashamed while I wait on thee though my Flesh be as Grass that withers away Thou art my Strength O Lord and my Portion for ever who wilt I trust give a Blessing to my Seed to my Harvest to my House to my Endeavours and Encrease that my Work and thine may prosper in my hand and bring fulness of Joy and Satisfaction to my Breast while all the vain Thoughts and viler Suggestions of my Heart I desire so to hate as to wish like the Grass upon the House tops withered and faded away that they may never grow up to a Crop lest sowing the Wind I Reap the Whirlwind and have my Recompence in vanity according to my delight or trust and come to nothing before my time But O Lord I wait on thee for a Blessing in this my day and for thine Eternity that I may be like a Field whom God hath enriched if he be not on my side I cannot prosper and I know him whom thou blessest is Blessed Bless me therefore even me O! Our Father c. THE ELEVENTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXX PSALM 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De dolore Profundo ex imo corde and not as the Papists would have it De Profundis Purgatorii to be used for the Dead It is an Act and incitement of Hope under the most weighty Pressures from this Proof viz. That neither with the strongest Angels nor Saints departed much less with the greatest or best of Men upon Earth is any Pardon or Propitiation to be found but only with God who alloweth us here space and place for Repentance that he may be feared not so slavishly as to be fled from or hated that he may be sued unto adored and attended on in the holy Duties of Prayer Praise and Trust which are comprized in this Psalm to be used sedulously and constantly night and day according to that which the Repetition of the comparison in the sixth Verse doth infer which is thus gloss'd on by Kimchi My Soul waiteth in the Night for the Lord that it may be in the number of those who rise in the Morning-Watch to pray And this sense being most comprehensive of the Times and Method both of Jewish and the greatest of Devotion I follow it in my Version and desire to do so in my Practice This Psalm was made as some think in the time of the Captivity for Redemption from it as may be judged by the last Verse But others ascribe it to David giving it the same Date with the 51st and is reckon'd the sixth of the Penitentials i. e. of those which were used when public Pentents were brought and reconciled to the Church who might well say Because there is Pardon as saith the Text or Propitiation as the 72d with thee O Lord therefore shalt thou be feared i. e. obeyed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because the mildness of his Laws and meekness of his Dealings were strong Motives for Repentance Anthema Hocce à me usitatum est ut primò factum in Secundum Octobris OUT of the Deep wherein like Jo nas I was try'd out of the mire of Sin my Clay to God hath cry'd Lord hear my Voice give what I crave O! let me have thy Love Heav'ns Joys Too oft we chuse false Joys And should'st thou be severe To chasten our ill Choice What Man his Ills can bear But we have prov'd That thou may'st be Pardon 's with thee Both fear'd and lov'd I 'le fear lest thou art lov'd Too little and I 'le flee When Fear my Heart hath mov'd Unto thy Sanctuary Early and late Grace to afford There waits the Lord Therefore I 'le wait My Soul on high shall wait Like those who watch the rise Of Day to Officiate At Morning Sacrifice Nay like the Guard Remove the Night Who long 'till Light And them reward 'Till Jacob's Star reward Your Hopes and on you rise Wait Isr'el on your Lord With wakeful wishing Eyes Look 'till the Sun Doth heal and bless Of Righteousness And brings God's Son O! shield ye with his Sun God's People trust his Word Since full Salvation Attends our gracious Lord There 's Pity seen Who will Redeem And Pow'r in him Us from all Sin 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 Eleventh PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXX PSALM ODearest Jesu when I consider thee crying with strong Cries to thy Father for me out of the depths of thine Agony and of thy Sufferings both in Gethsemane and in Golgotha how am I swallowed up in the Abysses both of thy Passion and Compassion for us Ah! what fathomless Depths indeed O! what unmeasurable Dimensions both of Grief and Goodness are there for us to be immersed in and since they who are conversant among great Waters see the Wonders of the Lord O! how may we behold these in the drops of thine Eyes and of thy Wounds in the Rivers of thy Tears and of thy wonderful Sweat in the Ocean of thy Love and Sorrows for Mankind When thy Soul was heavy and sunk down even unto Death and all the Cataracts of Shame and Fury passed over thy Head O King of Righteousness and Glory yet out of the deep and horrible Pit of God's Wrath into which thy condition was plunged for our sakes how didst thou reach up thy very Sighs and Groans thy Pains and Sadness thy Prayers and all thy Passions unto Heaven it self to reach us thence a Medicine and a Remedy more certain Health and a more happy Life than the lifting up of the Serpent in the Wilderness ever brought to its beholders I will therefore look unto thee and be enlighten'd even while thou seemest Eclipsed I will stay my self on the Tree of thy Cross and secure my self under the Shadows of thy

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

hear How glorious all his Goings were Up to the Mountains from the Plain Cant. 2.8 Rev. 14.1 Psal 114.4 And while God comes with the glad Throng In ev'ry place we hear this Song See see where our Beloved goes That he may stand on Sion still Look how he leaps from Hill to Hill And makes us skip for joy like Roes Come John 2.22 let 's to Sion march along In order lest we Worship wrong Numb 10.33 35 36. After the Ark our Course is bent We 'll worship with the solemn Cries Rise Lord unto thy Rest arise Rise to a Temple from a Tent. The Train shall shout 1 Chr. 15.27 and so will I The Choir shall raise their Voices high The Priests shall shew the Sanctity Both of thy Person and their Place 2 Chr. 6.12 13. By being cloath'd with Righteousness And thine Anointed thou shalt bless Nor from thy * Or Favour See Gregory's Notes on the word Presence turn his Face Oh! 2 Sam. 6.21 never turn from us thy Face For David's sake love David's Race Do not his Stock as Saul's disown Since if his Sons thy Laws obey Thou 2 Chr. 9.17 Lord hast sworn his * De fructu Ventris tui quoniam uterus Vxeris cum omni suo fructu ad Maritum pertinet Seed shall sway And here for ever have a Throne 2 Sam. 6.12.13 For here hath God his Favour shown And chose our Dwellings for his own He will not stay with Edom * Neither with Edom whom he hated nor Obed Edom whom he blessed still But his Provisions shall bless ours Since on the Rich he dainty's show'rs And can with Bread the Hungry fill Here will I sit 2 Chr. 6.41 saith God Vi●tum eis non viduam lenedicam and Carve To each poor Soul Significare vult apertam manifestam salutem quae omnibus pateat cum sacerdotes salute quasi veste circumdarentur qui nunquam deerint gratiarum repetendarum Officio that none may starve 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the 72 Interp. will render it which properly signifies Venison a dainty indeed but it implies more largely any Victuals or Prosions All Wants I will so far supply That a large Alb of Thankfulness Shall be my Priest's perpetual Dress And Saints shall set their Joys on high On high shall David see my Love As here in Sion so above Like Aaron's Rod shall bud his * His Royal Dignity Power and Off spring 1 King 11.36 Horn † 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which mystically refers to Christ Psal 4.2 Glory 's own Lamp lights up his Line And on his Head my Crown shall shine But on his Foes I 'le ‖ Haud secus ac Retiarii ut supra in comment throw my Scorn Gloria Patri c. Glory be to the Father Son And Holy-Ghost the Three in One Whom as one Being we adore Tho ev'ry Person of the Three For ever was shall ever be And is God Blessed evermore AMEN CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Thirteenth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXXII PSALM O Lord God! that thou mayest the more graciously consider us and our Affairs Remember our Lord Jesus we beseech thee and all his Afflictions all his Humblings all his Troubles his Cares and Loves and Passions for us look how through the whole Volume of thy Book it is written of him That he should fulfill thy Will O God! and therefore he begger'd himself so far as to be born of the Stock and Lineage of David that he might perform the Promise he had made not to fail his People but to become their Righteousness and their Redemption and so though the Foxes had holes and the Birds of the Air nests he would not have where to lay his Head Neither would he give sleep to his Eyes but would be walking and watching and praying whole Nights together that he might be doing good to us for us in us and with us that here again in this base Earth and World of ours he might find out an Habitation for the Mighty God and a place where his holy Dove might rest Grant then O glorious Lord that all his Labours and Desires his Endeavours and good Will concerning us may not be frustrated but let us be built up a Spiritual House upon him and be blest in our Undertakings through him unto thy Glory that as we have been directed so we may go on not stand still to see thy Salvation and to worship thy Goodness which doth arise with healing under its Wings for us as a Hen and as an Eagle to cure to carry to secure and feed us to make our Natures thy Abode our Hearts thy Sanctuary our Souls the resting Place both for thee and the Ark of thy Strength and all this to what purpose but for our Advantage not thine that we might be a Chosen Generation a Royal Priesthood cloathed with Christ's Righteousness and cover'd with thy Comeliness which invests us with all Peace and Joy through the Holy Ghost O therefore let us lift up our Hearts with Love and Praise and Comfort in believing trusting and begging for thy Son's sake that neither our Faces may be turned from thee to go a Whoring after other things that are not God nor indeed good nor let the face of thine Anointed be turned so away from us as not to know us at the last Day No blessed Lord grant us such an interest in our dear Redeemer as that we may have a Title to thy Favour and be able to put thee in mind how thou hast sworn and wilt not fail unto thy well-beloved Son that of the Fruit of his Body thou wilt set upon the Throne and hast promised to all true Believers his Servants that if they keep thy Covenant they and their Children shall Reign with thee for ever and find new cause of rejoycing in thee who hast chosen the Sons of Men for thy Zion and desired their enlarged Souls for thy restful Habitation and chief Delight But when shall we come to this Joy unspeakable and full of Glory When we have with patience waited on thy good pleasure and not fainted in our expectation of thy faithfulness then for certain we shall see thee abundantly blessing and rewarding the small Provisions made here to serve thee withall and thou wilt satisfie such as hunger and thirst after thy Kingdom with the Bread of Life and with the Wells of Salvation and they shall be array'd like thy Priests with Holiness and shine like Lamps in thy Presence for evermore Amen HElp us O Mighty God of Jacob to sing no Requiems to our Souls or Conditions here 'till we have not only heard of thee with the hearing of the Ear but hearkened unto thee with the attention of the Mind and come unto thee with the obedience of the Will finding out a place in our Affections and Understandings where thou mayest dwell that thou mayest hereafter prepare a