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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

and surrounded as in the fifth and sixth in the seventh and eighth hemm'd in and convoy'd out for Victory and Triumph WHere shall I seek for aid For the Second of September and October 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 Christ is the Ark to ground Gen. 8.11 Thy Heart on when distrest From head to foot he 'll make thee sound On him did Jacob rest Gen. 28.11 But he doth never rest Non dormitabit multo minùs dormiet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quamvis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ex impatientiâ Iugentis Deus obdormire dicitur Psal 44.24 From doing good nor sleeps That with such Guards thou may'st be blest Gen. 32.2 As he his Israel keeps Good Shepherd he doth keep Psal 22.1 4. 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 Like the three Children's Skin Dan. 3.27 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 Give Blessings without end Antistrophe 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 〈◊〉 Father 〈◊〉 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 on the two Columns let us invoke thy help O Lord saying O Lord Though thou mayest call to Baldness to Weeping to Weakness or to Want though thou mayest touch the Sinew and make it shrink or strive with me as thou didst with Israel and begin to afflict me or seem to depart from me so that my Flesh and my Heart may fail yet O suffer not my Soul to slip let not my Foot my Foundation be removed but let it rest with thy Dove upon the Ark of thy Covenant and be fixed on the Rock Christ Jesus that thou mayest order all my goings O! do thou go out and in before me that my going out and coming in may be ever blessed If

of the Wood may be taken as for the House of Aminadab in the Hill of Kiriathjarim which was a City in a woody place from whence David and all Israel fetch'd the Ark from the House of Obed-Edom So for the City of Jerusalem and especially the Mount Moriah which was a close Covert in Abraham's time witness the Ram caught in the Thicket and was afterwards more adorned with Wood when the Temple was built thereon This being frequently by the Prophets called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Wood as Bethlechem the place of Bread is also called Ephratah viz. Fruitful It was the City of David where he might learn from his pious Ancestors that neither Silo nor Gibeon nor Nob but Moriah which was a part of Mount Sion and here by way of Eminency bears the name of the whole Hill should be the chief place of worshipping the Mighty God of Jacob. God is so called here because he calls himself the Almighty Gen. 35.10 11. Gen. 49.24 Gen. 28.20 when he named Jacob Israel and Jacob first calls God so and is the first of all the Patriarchs who is mentioned to have vowed a Vow as the most ancient Rabbi Abahu notes Non dicitur vovit forti Abraham aut forti Isaac sed forti Jacob quod primus omnium vovit Jacob votum dicendo c. Dicendo quid Dicendo omnibus seu docendo omnes vovendum esse in Calamitatibus But I think it a fine Dream of the Rabbins who say Quam Terribilis est iste Locu erit Bethel i. e. Domus Dei seu Domus Orationis Dixit Quandoquidem vidi hôc ipso in loco aedificatum iri Templum 2 Sam. 24.16 17. Jacob is here mentioned because in his sleep when he saw those Degrees which reach'd Heaven he had a Vision of the Temple that Solomon built and being amazed at the Majesty thereof speaks of it and not of Bethel And David as they say made the Vow mentioned in this Psalm when the Plague was stayed at the Threshing-Floor of the Jebusite and notice given him where the Temple should be built as I have noted before Thus much may suffice by way of Argument because I have wrote more in Annotations upon this Psalm it being the longest and most difficult of my undertaking Therefore I would be excused by the more Critical and Learned Reader if the pains I took do neither please nor profit him in the full understanding or explaining the sense hereof because these Notes were not intended to nauseate the public with Crambes but to inform those who are of as low rank in knowledge as my self Having put the word Shechinah in the Margin of my Verses I was once asked why I did so Therefore I here give the reason because I look on that Petition of the Psalmist in the tenth Verse Janus-like with two Faces and most fit for Solomon to make who built both the Temple and a place on purpose to worship towards the holiest of Holies as if he had in this manner uttered his Mind O! let me never prove so Idolatrous as to turn away to other Gods from this place of Worshipping towards thy holy Temple toward the Shechinah the special place of thy Presence nor let me prove so rejected by thee as in thine Anger to be cast out from before thee but do thou impower me here to make thy Presence and to meet with thy Favours in my Worship and Adoration of thee Then I have doubly render'd the last Verse because of the fulness of the Word Induam I 'le cloath or put on or throw on as the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Retiarii did their Nets over the Secutores i. e. publickly in the sight of all Men by covering and overwhelming them to disgrace and destroy them And this Induam is put in opposition to the cloathing of such Men Vers 9 10. who having Truth and Righteousness visibly about them as it were their Rayment shall be manifestly preserved and adorned thereby as Judges by their Robes through the over-ruling Providence and Tuition of the Almighty LOrd For Christmas day as it is appointed by the Church think on him whom thou didst find the Man ac╌cor╌ding to thy Mind who could for thee with all things part With his Wives love and his own State that on thy Ser╌vice he might wait Remember Da╌vid's humble Heart Think on his Hand that brings thee Praise Strikes down thy Foes ill Spirits lays And Gifts and Musick doth afford 1 Sam. 17.49 16.16 Though he did right 2 Sam. 6.19 6.16 6.21 he had much wrong Ev'n while he brought thy Ark along Remember David's Troubles Lord. Think on the King and on his Care Who for thy Place did well prepare Lord Bless his Heir 1 Chr. 22.3 4.5 28.14 5. 2. 15.1 build up his House He would have set and trimm'd up thine Lord bless our acting his Design Remember David and his Vows Thus said he 2 Sam. 5.9 when he took his Oath To Jacob's God I plight my Troth Though I am safe in my new Forts I will not sleep nor there sit still 'Till the Ark rests on Zion's Hill 2 Sam. 7.2 And from its * Tabernacula Curtains comes to † Vsus est numero multitudinis ad plures Templi partes indicandas nam in Templo inquit Kimchi crant Domus tres Courts My House though built shall not be * It shall not be Dedicated and so not dwelt in 'till Consecrated as the Jews did ever some part of their House for special Worship Blest 1 Sam. 19.15 16. My Bed shall yield me no more † Tandem tam longè abest ut ego sim dormiturus ut ne oculis quidem mictaturus sim Rest Than when 't was searched for no good 'Till here with ours God's Seat is found 1 Chron. 13.5 6. Being with lofty Cedars crown'd Instead of Kiriath-jearim's Wood. For in the Woods we lately found 1 Sam. 7.1 Joys which to Abram's Hill may sound When God shall there be seen again Gen. 22.13 1 Sam. 16.1 Mic. 5.2 As first at Bethlem we did hear How glorious all his Goings were Up to the Mountams from the Plain And while God comes with the glad Throng Cant. 2.8 Rev. 14.1 Psal 114.4 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 After the Ark our Course is bent Numb 10.33 35 36. 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 By being cloath'd with Righteousness

pleasant a thing it is to know Christ as our Head and we our selves his Members This is as sweet and useful as Life it self to make our short Lives here not tedious to our selves or others nay this is Life Eternal because Charity never fails We shall have that Grace for all if we are Christians we shall keep it always if we are Saints for it is Holiness and will be Happiness it is the Oyl that from our Head from our everlasting Aaron falls down to the very Skirts of his Clothing to revive and refresh the lowest and most humbled Sinner if believing and it is that Anointing from above which we must not want especially at the last Article of Life in the greatest extremities of Temptation but we must carry it along with us into our Father's presence then shall we be in his sight as a Field which the Lord hath blest then will he smell the Odour of our elder Brother's Vest upon us and we shall inherit the Promises and abide in his Love in the participation and in the propagation thereof Divine Love being the Dew of Heaven that causes the fruitfulness of the Earth it makes us high and white like Hermon pleasant and safe as Mount Sion it makes our Superiours and the great ones of the Earth not to be Rocks of Offence to us but to be rather as the shadows of a Rock in a dry Land needful Supports convenient Sanctuaries and Refreshments and it causes God to command a Blessing on us from all degrees of People above us and of conditions round about us Therefore Dear Lord help us to live in such Concord and brotherly Kindness as that we may be Blessed from all our Relations from our Superiours by having the Oyl of Spiritual Blessings and the Dew of Temporal Favours bestowed on us Love and good Will from Equals Prayers and good Wishes from Inferiours being so careful and affectionate both for thy Priests and for our Princes as that neither Moses nor Aaron may be murmured at but obeyed by us and we may be protected and guided by their Hands in the Spirit and Practice of all true Love and Charity for the honour of our Christian Profession and for the glory of thy holiest Name O Christ Jesus our Lord who livest and reignest c. THE FIFTEENTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXXIV PSALM Was composed by David De Muys thinks as well as the former and appointed to put the People in mind of their more solemn Times of Meeting with that pious charitable and unspotted Souls with which they ought to approach God this being an Euge an incitement to all who are the Lord's Servants to be constant and pure in his Service as a particular hoc age to the Priests at the Canonical Hours of Prayer and stated Times of public Worship to lift up clean Hands and holy Hearts It is a proper Close to the preceding Hymns being often sung at Midnight at the end of the Nocturnal Offices by the Jews and design'd by me for the Eves of our greater Festivals It is an Exhortation generally directed not only to the Priests who kept the Watch in the Temple so to the People who watched these Days and Nights for many departed not as you may gather from Psal 92.2 and Luke 2.37 It seems to me most probable that this Psalm was composed by Ezra the Priest or some of his Time not only because it is the last of the Graduals which were accommodated for the Return from Captivity but because it is Dramatic chiefly concerning the Priests who stand by night in the House of the Lord or as the 72d in the Courts of the House which was not built in David's time and therefore it is not so likely a composition of David's but of Ezra when the holy manner of worshipping God was restored Ezra 8.6 and the Priests set in their Courses Vers 7. In the first Verse of this Psalm I should suppose the Choir joyning to the Music and then the Chief Priest for that Watch giving the rest Directions as in the second Verse and they again in the third Verse blessing him for it is Bless thee and not yee though in my version I use the Plural throughout ALL ye A Nocturnis for Christmas Eve who God's Do╌me╌stics are see you with An╌gels wait and in your Courses like each Star by Night shine at Heav'ns Gate Look while ye stand Among the Jews the Choir stood the People kneeled the High-Priest sate and the washings of their Hands and Feet so frequent during the time of their officiating were call'd Sanctifications or kneel or sit Ye serve and bless the Lord Look that your Hands God's Altar fit And to his Praise accord Look ye be clean for Holiness Becomes God's holy Place Watch well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the 72. is short of the Original though it means in holy Things as well as Places for it signifies Holiness in the Abstract Christ typified by the Ark of the Covenant and such Holiness in Men as could adapt them for the discharge of their Duty which is hinted by the Apostle 1 Tim. 2.8 And this was signified by the Jews often washing their Hands and Feet before their Praying which was stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sanctification Vt alibi indigitavi and Pray that Filthiness None of God's Works deface Then God who made the World and stays On Sion Grace shall send 'Till he shall Bless and we shall Praise From hence World without end Gloria Patri c. To God the Father God the Son And God the Holy-Ghost Be Glory giv'n by ev'ry one Who make the Lord their Boast AMEN CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Fifteenth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXXIV PSALM O Thou that acceptest not the Persons of Princes nor regardest the Rich more than the Poor since they are all alike the Works of thy Hands grant that we may not be such Fools as to forget thee in any time of our quiet fulness or repose lest thou come at an Hour when thou art not look'd for by us and find us unfit for thy Appearance who canst trouble whole Nations even at Midnight at a time when we least think of Disturbance or Remove as we have great Examples in the People of Israel Egypt and Assyria for there is not any Darkness no not the shadows of Death where the workers of Iniquity can hide themselves from thine Eyes though all the Mountains of the World should cover them thou beholdest all our Goings though thy Foot-steps are too little regarded by us Therefore let us not think to do mischief or wrong like the Evil one who sowed Tares while other Men slept nor to commit Violence or Robbery 1 King 3.20 nor to Defraud or Deceive like the Harlot at Midnight but even at that Season be Chast and Pious and Charitable like Boaz denying our selves and mastering our Concupiscences and like Sampson in Gaza disappoint the malice of that

implacable Adversary who hunts after our Souls and ceases not like a Dog to go about seeking whom he may devour Lord deliver thou my Darling from his Power as thou didst St. Paul even at such a dismal time when I may seem in his very Jaws then let my Soul escape and get away and find a way to serve thee as that chosen Vessel did who could Pray and sing Praises unto thee even at Midnight so let us endeavour to worship the Lord with holy Worship with clean Hands and a pure Heart that we may stand on his holy Hill and remember in all the Formalities of outward Cleanness to keep our Spirits pure and in all our Approaches to thee to keep our selves unspotted of the World to this end give us inward Holiness and the Sanctifications both of Heart and Life that in the darkest hour of Temptation in the deadest time of Distress in the cloudiest night of Trouble or of Agonies we may lift up our Praises and Adorations unto thee who canst send thine Angel as thou didst once thy Son at such a time to comfort and recover our vile Natures and to command Deliverances unto thy People even from thy most holy Place O! that we may be of the number of those who qualifie themselves by thy Service for the better discharge of their Duty and thy Will that having the filthy Garments of our own evil Thoughts Words and Actions like Joshua's the High-Priest's taken off from us we may not have Satan left at our right Hands to accuse or command us but may see Jesus at thy right Hand interceding for us and being cloathed in the long Robes of his Righteousness we may lift up our Hands in thy Sanctuary and bless thee for evermore who hast made the Heavens as well as the Sea for thy Children to adore thee in O! Our Father c. THE FIFTEEN Psalms of Degrees OR ASCENTS Are so called because they were sung Anthem-wise by several Parts of the Choir with Elevation of Voice on some higher Ground or place of advantage perhaps on the Steps of the Temple which in Ezekiel's Vision are mentioned to be Fifteen in number Ca. 40. v. 22.34 And just so many Stairs say the Talmudists were there mounting from the Women's Court to the Men's on which they fancy these PSALMS were sung and therefore thus termed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Aquila and Symachus But I think rather because they were much used by the Hebrews upon their coming up from Babylon and at the building of the second Temple Cap. 8. as may be guessed from Nehemiah at which time they might indeed begin very properly with the 120th Psalm by reason of the contempt and calumniation of their ill-willers at that time who were such as are there described Arabians crafty and cruel Adversaries who maliciously opposed both their unloosing the Chains of Captivity and the erection of their Buildings Need was there then of Songs of E●●●ation and Ascents to advance God's high Deliverances of them and exalt his Praise and Glory in the most excellent way of rejoycing which was in their eminent Music as the Title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendered Cantica Dignitatum may likewise bear As also to revive their drooping Spirits by some pleasant kind of Melody or lofty Note well known to the Jews by the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some suppose may here import no more than this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the front of other Psalms viz. to notifie that the Tune or Key these were to be sang in was the same with such other Psalms as were known to begin with the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS