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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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 thou go not out with us carry us not abroad nor let us stay at home without thee Let not the Vanities of the Day nor the Visions of the Night disturb our Senses or abuse our Souls O Lord prevent the Mid-day Devils and the Arrows that fly by Noon from blasting or hurting of us nor let Nocturnal Evils or any mischief in the dark have Power to smite us But be thou a Succour a Second a God not a far off to preserve and prosper us in all our Actions publick and private in our Labours in our Studies in our Rest in our Retirements in our weak Beginnings in our happier Progresses and in our best Conclusions O Lord be with us in our entrance on the Stage of this World in our Parts here in our Exit hence even now and for evermore Amen THE THIRD Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXII PSALM Describeth David's Joy which is expressed in the 30th Psalm at the bringing of the Ark and Offering for the Temple and Dedication of his House to God's Service And it is a Preparative Hymn for the Devout in their going up to the Places of Religion and Solemn Worship containing their Thanks Praise and Pleasure in the return of the Comfort and Company which they enjoyed in the public Adoration of God and their Prayers for the longer continuance of such signal Blessings Made by David as it is thought upon his return to Jerusalem after his slight from Absalom and solemnly sung by the Levites at their coming out of Captivity Jerusalem in general as the Temple more especially being the Type of God's Church both Militant and Triumphant that is built with the precious Stones of the Apostles and Prophets CHRIST himself being the Rock Caput Anguli Caput Angelorum to whom when many come there is much Joy The Poem is Dramatick like the 118th Psalm in which the King Priest and People seem to bear their Parts of Rejoycing at the public Festivals which were thrice every Year to be solemnized at Jerusalem according to the Command of God which occasioned the great Beautifying Enlarging and Fortifying of the City intimated in the 2d 3d 6th and 7th Verses as well as the other reason of its Happiness and Amplitude from the Temple of God and Throne of David mentioned in the 1st 5th 8th and 9th Verses To which may be added this reason because there was the great Senate of the LXXII or Sanhedrim The King beginneth the Psalm in the 1st Verse the Priests follow in the 2d the People in the 3d and they go on in the 4th Then the King takes it again in the 5th the Priests in the 6th and the People go on in the 7th as in a Procession and good order The Priests take it again in the 8th and the the King concludes in the best though last place with a fixt and pious Resolution This may properly be set for the 29th of May. BLes sed be God for the good News and Freedom which he doth afford From th' House of Bondage like glad Jews we come un to thy House O Lord. Our Woes and Wand'rings now shall cease While rooted fast like Trees we stand Within thy Courts who dost with Peace Plant us again in our own Land Our Joys shoot up with fresh encrease While rooted fast like Trees we stand Within thy Courts who dost with Peace Plant us again in our own Land See Hierosolyma optime instituta concors ideo duratura see how comely how compact Peace makes this Gyant-City seem Our Union makes her Form exact Like th' Heav'nly New Jerusalem Whither to an Eternal Feast All the Lord's Tribes at last shall go And on his Hill above find rest As we do in his House below Here now as at a Passover Our Tribes like Streams i' th' Ocean meet To serve thee as thy Laws averr And Praise thy Name that is so great Here now as at a Passover Our Tribes like Streams i' th' Ocean meet To serve thee as thy Statutes are And Praise thy Name that is so great Here is God's Temple David's Throne The Bench of Justice Mercy 's Seat Here Princes Prophets Priests make known How good our Church our State how great Here 's the Blest Type of Heav'n above Pray then for Salem here for Peace Since they who love this Place do prove Happy and blest with much Encrease Lord bless us and this Place with Peace With Plenty and with Piety For thy Name 's sake let our's encrease Our King 's and Friends Prosperity All Tyes both Humane and Divine Our Love for Men our Zeal for God What we can do or wish Fiat Pax Antemurali tuo Abundantia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Palatiis Turriam ad instar structis combine To seek the Bliss of this aboad Gloria Patri c. In the Lord's Praise let none be Dumb But Father Son and Ghost adore Who was and is and is to come Thrice Blessed God for evermore CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Third PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXII PSALM O Glorious God! to whom Praise and Worship is due to whom Vengeance and Holiness belongs accept the Joys and Adorations of our Souls and Bodies for that we have not only Freedom in our own Persons but also Encouragement from our Relations to come along with them and many more of thy People to the most proper place and by the appointed way of public Worshipping and Praising of thee Oh! how glad as if we had found great Spoils may we be to find not only that we can but also that others will plant themselves within thy Courts and not stand in the way of Sinners that we may prosper together like Trees by the Water side and bring forth Fruit and that in due season Dear and gracious Lord when we go hence and shall be called away by Death how happy should we be could we come to thee as easily as we now can come to the Church and bring this Olive-branch in our Mouths into thy Ark Let us go up into the House of the Lord let us ascend unto his holy Hill let us be transplanted from the Gates of Death to be rooted in the Porches of the New Jerusalem for one day in thy Courts is better than a thousand in

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 Ὠδαί τῶν ἀναβαθμῶν καὶ ἀναβάσεων εἰς τὰς ἀναβάσεις 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 as may be guessed from Nehemiah Cap. 8. 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 Education 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