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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

State according to thy Will CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Twelfth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXXI PSALM O Thou Son of David of whom we ought to learn to be Meek and Lowly let us see what kind of Disciples we are by regarding our dear Master and find what Proficients in thy School by minding the Copy thou hast set us There appeared not the least glance of Pride Arrogance or Self-love in thy Behaviour there was not the least Roof of Bitterness in thy Breast for thou camest to Attone the first Sin of our first Parents and so for all thou wert exalted far above all that are here called Gods yet thy Spirit was not haughty as Lucifer's not thine Eyes lift up to the forbidden Fruit. Mark 13 32 Thou wert willing to be ignorant as Man of those things which did not befit Men to pry nicely into that thou mightest stoop to the weaknesses of thy Body the Church and comply more absolutely with the divine Will and Compassionate more sensibly the Infirmities or Ignorances of Mankind O most gracious condescending Jesus how were thy Delights among the Children of Men while thou didst not behave thy self like a Simon Magus like an Impostor that would be admired for some God below but like thy Servant Moses didst vail thy self that thou mightest be conversed withall and didst not walk too much obscured by thine own Lustre and Transcendency but didst leave the Doctors and Learned Jews to go down with thy humble Mother into Galilee and to be subject unto her as a weaned Child And though thou wouldest not exercise thy self in things too high for thee yet O! how low wouldest thou appear in thy Employments How plain in thy Countenance how easie and affable in thy Conversation that Publicans and Sinners and little Children might come unto thee and hear thy excellent Discourses and taste thy miraculous Provisions while thou wentest about doing good and telling Men that they should follow thy steps in being meek humble quiet and contented doing Good readily suffering Evil patiently as dear Children Lord How then should we abhor our selves when we either think of thee or of our selves How unlike are we become to thee if we claim any Kindred with thee For do we not still continue like Leviathan among the Sons of Pride Do we seem little in our own Eyes as thy Servant David did when thou didst make him a great King Or rather do we not lift up our Wills and Understandings and walk with a stiff Neck of Perversness in opposition to thee as it were aiming even at Heaven it self like the Tail of the old Serpent So far are we from receiving the Kingdom of Heaven like little Children But O! when then shall it once be that we shall not be High-minded but fear and love and own thee to be Lord over us Then shall we not rashly venture with Uzzal to meddle with those things which are unmeet for us or forbidden to us but we shall be weaned from our Mother Earth from the love of this dirty World and from loving its foul Inclinations and we shall cast our Cares and Affairs on thee renouncing all Self-Trusts or Conceits to level the face of our Souls before the feet of the holy Jesus that when thou comest O most holy Spirit to prepare the way of the Lord in us he may find no Rock nor Mountain nothing too hard or haughty in us nothing untractable or inaccessible to obstruct or oppose his Progress But O! let the too mighty Elevations of my vain Thoughts be brought down and the crooked ways of my Heart be made strait and the rough ways of my Condition be made smooth that my Soul may be still quiet with me and still'd and quietted by thee Rebuke the tempestuous Motions of a froward Mind that I may repose my self sweetly and safely on thy Promises on thy Provisions and resign my self wholly to thy Inspirations And God grant that all thine Israel may like Jacob wrastle with Principalities and Powers even in the highest and most heavenly Things and though never so much in a Night of Cares and darkest perplexities or to encounter with enraged Enemies yet let them wait and hope on the Lord and stay and strengthen themselves on their God as David did at Ziklag for he is a sure Reward and a constant Reward a Pillar of Fire and a Pillar of a Cloud a Sun and a Shield in whose Name we ought to trust denying our own Conjectures Affections and Desires rather than an absolute Dependance on him for ever and ever AMEN THE THIRTEENTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXXII PSALM Is a Narration of David's Devotion and of God's Promises and Appointment as to David and his Seed and the setling of the Ark on Sion which was a Type of the stability of Christ's Kingdom and of the future Felicities of his Servants in the Reign of the Son of David the Messiah the Horn spoken of here in Verse 17 as the Rabbins agree which the Apostle proves Acts 2.30 Therefore it was solemnly used at the Rebuilding of Jerusalem 2 Chron. 6.41 42. Deut. 12.11 1 Chron. 17.11 12. and most probably as Grotius thinks a composition of Solomon's at his raising of the Temple for the Honour of God and the Place containing in it part of Solomon's Prayer part of God's Promise to the Jews and to David But Kimchi and others think it made by David at that very time 1 Chron. 21.26 1 Chron. 22.1 when the scituation of the future Temple was miraculously shewn unto him as it is hinted in the word Invenimus by the Sign from Heaven For as David was absolutely forbidden the building of a Temple so 'till the Prophet Gad came to him with a Divine Command That he should build an Altar in the Threshing-Floor of Araunah For all his great desire like Abraham's 1 Chron. 17.12 to see such a glorious Day and notwithstanding his Devotion like Jacob to the Service of God yet he knew not the place that God would chuse as his Heaven upon Earth for his most eminent and suitable Habitation Therefore his Care and Concern chiefly reflecting on his Vows here made were the more considerable and might well be stiled Afflictions worthy to be Commemorated as well as his former Persecutions His constant Humility Meekness pious Sollicitude and Affection for God's Service demonstrated in 2 Sam. 7.2 and 1 Chron. 17.16 and all these senses the word Afflictions will bear as I have shewn in my Version Hic versus plurimum Hebraeos fatigat inquit clarius Where also I have endeavoured to be as clear as I could in the Exposition of that dark place of the sixth Verse which by some Commentators like the Jewish Arab. here is render'd much more shady and obscure so that the Elegant Castalio was forced to confess That he understood not the meaning of the Text viz. Verse 6. Therefore herein as all along by the help of the Critics

the ASCENTS of the SOVL ASSENTS Psalmodia Colloss 3.16.17 1 Chron 16 Cap Design Psalm 3. 7. 10. 12. 4. ● ●… 18. 20. 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 2. 11. 13.14 29. 30. 31. 33. 23. 32. 34. 35. 8. 24. 44. 50 16. 25. 26. ●… 15. 27. 17. 22. 52. 6. 38. 51. 28. 37. 49 21. 39. 43 36. 41. 12. 40. 42 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. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Epictet in Arrian Dissert lib. 1. cap. 17. LONDON Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford Anno Dom. 1681. THE MIND OF THE FRONTISPIECE GReatness and Piety combine To make the Psalmodist Divine Good Actions following pure Intents His Soul ASCENDS his God ASSENTS TO THE Right Honourable THE LEARNED AUTHOR A PINDARIQVE ODE I. ROuze up dull Quill and never Dormant lye Upon thy Cotton Pillow stiff and dry Useless and void of all Activity I 'le not disturb thy Rest To travel long in quest Of some impertinent Romance To Ape the fond or sighing Lover No for by chance I lately did discover In a fair view upon the Prospect-Land Greatness and Goodness walking hand in hand II. By the safe Conduct of a gentle Muse I trac'd a Royal Court Which led me to the Sacred Fort Where Strength and Beauty might amuse Fifteen Ascents of fair and precious Stone Not such as here are found Did mount me from the lower Ground To view a large and wond'rous Throne Whereon I spy'd a David and a Jonathan III. A Jonathan who whilom did employ His Quill to imp his Dart Whereby not to annoy Young Jesse's Heart But Love and needful Secrets to impart One who is able to engage With the Goliahs of the Age Those Debauchees who complement A Cloud and labour to entice The very Principles of Vertue into Vice With gaudy and prophane Embellishment Now for the wanton Fancy's sake Their Souls lye canker'd in the Rust Of Ease ill-manag'd now they make Greatness a Pander unto Lust If ever Prophecy did nick the Times David foresaw their * Seurrilis Cant. de Davide Bath non ita pridem compos Dytherambique Rhimes For when he counts his Injuries and Wrongs He adds * Psal 69.12 On me the Drunkards make their Songs IV. Oft have I seen the Sun's declining Light Drowsily nod down to the Lap of Night But when next Morn the Champion wakes For 't is not long he Dreams About the Globe's wide Lists a gallant Ring he takes Brandishing his Lance of Beams And when he manages a well-drest Ray The Night-Mare Sleep as frighted starts away Old Darkness is dismounted by the brisk young Day The World 's call'd up again and Men revive With a more strong assurance that they live Thus when the shades of Drollery possest The Seat where Virgin Muses once did rest When we despair'd that pious Lays Or useful Rhimes should e're more guild our Days A Star strangely propitious did appear Darting its Splendors from the wise Men's Hemisphere They'd much of Goodness much of heav'nly Grace As far as that can mix with humane Race And did portend the overthrow Of fordid Wit if that be Wit that some call'd so V. Their low-born Muse arm'd with Poetic Rage And License basely congeed to the Stage They trod mean Paths whose whole Design and Wit Could reach no farther than the Neighb'ring Pit When as your tow'ring Soul Leaving us beneath All humane Passions doth controul And mount into those Regions where Is nought but pure and subtle Air Where common Mortals cannot breath VI. Go on thou noble Hero who dost know The Paths of Honour and of Vertue too A Soul so Skilful so inur'd to Good Never proud Greek or Roman understood They only built a gaudy Theater Sacred to Vertue thou hast rais'd thy self to her Such a clean Lodging ev'ry Soul may boast Who bears the Temple of the Holy-Ghost Others for Pomp or Safety may provide Against their fatal Day A costly Dungeon or a Memphian Pyramid T' inclose their Souls too with their mould'ring Clay While by the Virtue of thy sacred Fire Decree'd not to expire Your Honour shall surviving Fame Live in a heav'nly Cone of Flame VII When I peruse the Comment and the Text Nothing I find so dubious or perplext * Tit. 1.14 By Jewish Fables or Conceits of Men But your unerring Pen Dictator doth Commence And reconcile King David's sense With such Illustrations there As if thou wert his Privy-Counsellor Your Version modest and yet faithful too Shews what thou dost and able art to do VIII My Numbers must fall short of what is due To such pure Zeal and depth of Judgment too Fifteen Degrees Henceforth shall every Psalm Boast that it can Receive the Honour of thy skilful Name THE CHIEF MUSICIAN Then Pardon Sir if I aspire To kiss the lowest Step of your advanced Quire S. H. AD NOBILISSIMUM AUTHOREM JActitet immensi Salomonem Machina Templi Structorem Graduum te Chorus ipse canit * Stantia non poterant tecta probare Deos Mart. utpote Christus Templi Excidium praesagivit Illius obruitur moles operosa ruinâ Vim frustra his infers Vespasiane tuam Ficta Poetarum torpescant Numina quorum Gleba Sepulchralis Frigida Membra tegit Musanum Lymphis incassùm labra retingunt Ni prunam Linguis praebeat Ara suis Vestris aspirat caeptis Deus ille Deorum Et sic Divino jure Pocta cluis Te merito canimus cujus conscendere Scalam Laurea subrepens ambitiosa cupit Te miseret Plantae quoties tremebunda precatur Ut Paradisiacis insita vivat Agris O Dilecte Deo pergas tibi ut Orbis Honore Agnoscat nullum nec Pietate parem Oro ut dignêris Triviae Tentamina Musae Quâ placidâ semper Fronte videre soles Forsitan insolitum videar compingere Carmen Scilicet appositè scribere causa vetat Honoris vestri obsequio deditissimus S. H. TO THE Most Illustrious And Serenest STELLA MADAM AS soon as Nature had awaked my Duty in the tender of its Devotion to Lucinda I was prompted by Justice as well as Love to lay my next Offering at Your Feet because I must avow to all the World that nothing hath that Ascendant over my Soul as Ye Two have who make my Passions high yet honest Ye are Twin-Stars of the first Magnitude so that I cannot shew Ye my Respects without advancing my Religion Your Piety encouraging that unto some nobler Effort while it instructs these in the most decent and humble ways of submitting my Desires to Heaven's acceptance first and then to Your Graces Madam You know I never yet approach'd You but with a Prayer or with Musick admiring the Divinity which still arrays Your Person the Imitation of your Holy and Harmonious Mind I think is Work for the most Excellent upon Earth

Murder bent At me their Bows are bent Their Malice doth encrease They say no good I meant When I did seek their Peace When I speak fair And straight the Swarm I them all-arm Their Stings prepare Corollarium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which may be used or omitted It being another Repetition Return Recollection of the Sence Musick Psalm Ver. 3 4. BUT though the Sland'rers sting Like Lightning pierc'd and burn'd The Stones which he did sling Heav'n in his Face return'd Live Coals from Hell By his bad Tongue And Javelings flung On his Head fell Ver. 2 7. Therefore no more will I Be of such Bruits afraid No more I 'll sigh Ver. 5 6. or cry Though I 'm in Deserts stay'd In all my Ways Who dost afford I 'll Bless Thee Ver. 1 2. Lord Such cause of Praise Though I 'm in Deserts stay'd No more I 'll sigh or cry Or be of Bruits afraid No longer now will I. Such cause of Praise We 'll Bless Thee Lord Thou dost afford In all our Ways 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 First PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXX PSALM O Lord our Redeemer a very present help in trouble as I have found thee heretofore blessed be thy powerful Compassion so I desire to approve thee whensoever as at this time I cry unto thee to deliver my Soul O God! I see that I am fallen into a dangerous Condition by the Lies of the Serpent the Treacheries of my own Flesh and the Falshoods of the World which I have sought and served listened and trusted to and so am justly appay'd with Cousenage and Disgrace with Calumnies and Accusation For what can be had from the Accuser of the Brethren from the deceitfulness of Riches and from the Cheats of all things here below but disappointments and vexation for such as follow lying Vanities forsaking thy Mercies and their own Alas then woe is me that I have heaped up such Coals of Vengeance on my own Head and pierced my Heart through with so many Darts of Sorrow by not delighting in the Tents of the Righteous nor in the Tabernacles of thy Holiness but in the Dwellings of Ungodliness and in the House of the Accursed so that I have deserved indeed to be made a Vagabond like Cain and a Slave like Cham in a perpetual Banishment from Comfort and in a Captivity unto Sin by having my Conversation according to the evil fashion of this Age. But Lord how long how long shall I sojourn either amongst the Enemies of thy Grace or of my Peace Amongst the Superstitious or Idolatrous Amongst those who are after the way of Mesech Or those who dwell in the black aboads of Kedar O! prolong not my Danger and Unhappiness any more among them nor protract my Wandrings with a backsliding People for I seek Peace Peace with Thee with my own Conscience and with all the World But can the Egyptian change his Skin Had Zimri Peace who slew his Master No Lord. There is no Peace thou hast said it to the Wicked who are at defiance with thee and with themselves and make War in the face of Heaven Therefore that I may find Peace I seek thy Pardon and my Soul's Purity and desire thee to preserve me from the Pollutions and Snares of a perverse Generation that dissemble as strange Children that so having no fellowship with the workers of Iniquity I might live in the sweet Communion of thy Saints and to be furthered by their Examples and Conversation in the way of Peace and Holiness For Lord I would be a pacifick Jacob and dwell under the shadow of thy Wings there accounting my self secure though I have no other Covering Thou art the best place to hide me in and 't is not my Sword or Bow shall settle or secure me but thy Mercy thy Grace and thy Spirit No strange Arms here can give me a certain or safe Abode unless thou be on my side Therefore dear God! whilst many rise up against me to trouble me in saying Where is thy God seeking to destroy me with their own quiet be thou a God nigh at hand to deliver me from Treachery Malice Turbulence and Hypocrisie And while my Foes heap Coals of Fire on their own Heads by unjust Actions and hard Speeches let my Mouth be touched with a Coal from thine Altar that I may know how to keep the Door of my Lips from all Cursing and Bitterness Lying and Blasphemies fraudulent and filthy Communication and how to open it in Praying to thee that I may find the Blessings of Peace within above abroad about me by Repentance of my Sins Reformation of my Life Regeneration of my Nature and Reconciliation to thy Love O! let it suffice that I have stayed so long in their Habitations where the Instruments of Cruelty remain where I might have been drawn either unto base Earthly Sorrow and Distraction or to foul Hellish Guilt and Desperation and so to inevitable Destruction both of Soul and Body Let it pity thee to see my poor Soul in such a Sink such a Gaol and Mill in such a nasty vile and slavish State as it hath endured And do thou cover my Head while my Foes make them ready to Battel Then shall I be guarded from the strife of Tongues from the contradiction of Sinners from the reproach that I fear and from Satan that is come forth against me with great wrath because I have called on thy Name while thou art not angry that I cry unto thee Our Father c. THE SECOND Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXI PSALM Is an Act of Acquiescence and Trust in God's Power and Presence made by David as it is thought when hunted like a Partridg on the Mountains and pursued by Saul when he made the 54th 55th and 57th Psalm And this being much used by the Jews in Babylon as most suitable for times of Persecution or Sickness was at their going up from thence appointed to be one of their Psalms of Ascents and therefore to be sung frequently loudly and by Responses which occasioned this Composing it like an Anthem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Stanza's being so pointed and divided as to answer alternately by Disticks if it may better suit the Musick The Title of it hath a difference from the rest as the Rabbins observe being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and not as in others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It may be stiled David ' s March made by him or some other considerable Person while he kept the Field either for the safety of his Flocks as Jacob did or of his Friends as Abram Thus did the Royal Shepherd and sweet Singer of Israel exercise and employ his Mind in the grateful Memory of the Divine Goodness Well might he then here

our Lives So that we have been sinking into destruction like those that are howling in the Pit Alas the bitter Streams of our vile imaginations and transgressions have like a deadly draught or Poyson been suck'd in greedily and sent to our very Hearts so that we had been past all means of escape or hope of succour if thou hadst not stood by us as thou didst by thy Servant Paul and not only strengthened but saved us as thou didst the Prophet by drawing us forth as thou didst the Prophet of the dangerous Gulph of estrangement and infidelity into which our triple Enemies would have thrown us Their Power would be great like their Malice Didst not thou take our part O holy Spirit and plead our Cause O sweetest Jesus Blessed be thy omnipotent and most glorious Mercy that hath made our Souls as a Bird that may fly up to Heaven and be secure We praise and thank thee dearest Father for those Wings of Faith Prayer Love and Devotion whereby we can escape the Snare of the cunning Fowler and all his noysom Plagues and Temptations O! still cover us both with thy gracious Protection and with the lovely Wings of the Holy of Holies so that we may break the Bands of Satan asunder and cast away his Cords from us and neither have the Eyes of our Faith held from seeing thee nor the Feet of our Affections from seeking thee but like thy beloved and most loving Disciples Peter and John leave our Nets whereby we take others and all those Entanglements whereby we are so caught our selves and throw off every Impediment for the better following of our Master Christ under the Patronage of whose Love and Power we would roost and nestle our Beings for ever For it is he that hath made Heaven and Earth for us for our Habitation and will make a new Heaven and Earth about us for our Regeneration And since this is a greater Blessing than the first Creation of Man let our delivery from the Jaws of Hell bring him more Honour than all his other Dealings with us even Glory for evermore Amen THE SIXTH Psalm of Degrees BEING The CXXV PSALM Like the 11th Psalm sheweth David 's Trust and Recourse to God not like Saul to the Witch of Endor or Wealth of Amalek but where Believers are established and secured in the Presence of the Almighty and perpetuity of the Church whereby they find the goodness of their Portion and the evil Lot of the Wicked whatsoever he be whether Hypocritical Profane or Backsliding It is applied by the Rabbins to the Days of the Messiah and so by us it may be appositely used on Sacramental Days or any such time of greater manifestation and experience of God's Integrity and the Faith of Man For S. John's day WHO on the Lord do build their Trust like Si on they command up in to Heav'n their Heads they thrust their Feet un mo-ved stand Right safe high strong they always stand Like God's most Holy ground The Rock of Ages on each hand Doth shade them and surround As Hills Jerusalem surround To deck her and defend So God encircles and hath crown'd His folk World without end As Hill c. For least in Sin their Suff'rings end Though an Egyptian * For the Rod or Scepter of Wickedness is the Tyranny of a Pharaonick Oppression over the lot of the Righteous that is the Church of God which he may lay on but will not leave nor suffer to lye still God having the Rod of their Portion in his hand alluding to the old way of Sortition by Staves whereof see Numb 17. and Josh 18. For the Reasons mentioned observe how aptly the Portions of the Wicked let them be never so fat or fair like Esau's here are termed Rods to plague oft-times both themselves and others as Divers's Portion did But the Portion of the Godly is stiled a Lot and a pleasant one as David's 16 Psal 6. or a Cup of Blessing indeed like Jacob's and of abundance like Benjamin's Gin. 33.11 Gen. 44.2 Rod To th' Goshen of the good extend 'T is thence remov'd by God Do good still to the Good O Lord To him whose Heart and Line Bend not to wrong whose Feet ne're trod Ways which to Hell encline Since such as crooked ways encline To do or cherish ill God shall drive from him but design Peace to his Israel For such c. Gloria Patri c. To Father Son and * The suddain change in the expression of God from the second Person to the third As it is an elegancy in the Original so it may note such shall not know God in the second Person of the Trinity as a Saviour but at a far greater distance as a Judge Hib. 10.38 39. who draw back and turn aside perverting their way which is already crooked Prov. 14.2 to more depraved Obliquities and desperate Apostacy after a profession of the right way But they shall be tortured with Hypocrites and Unbelievers while he shall be kept like Israel Gen. 32. in perfect Peace whose Mind is stayed on God Isa 26.3 to the greater vexation of those Edomites who perhaps sometime persecuted him Ghost we bow One glorious God w' adore As in beginning was is now And shall be evermore CONTEMPLATIONS and COLLECTS ON THE Sixth PSALM of DEGREES BEING The CXXV PSALM O Thou immutable Lord God most faithful Creator Redeemer and Comforter I desire not only to believe of thee in the world to credit what thou art in thy self but to trust to what thou sayest in thy Gospel to rely on thee for what thou dost at present and acquiesce in thee for what thou wilt do hereafter and stay my self on thee through thine everlasting good pleasure For thou art the Lord that dost not change and therefore we are not consumed but are converted from Creatures to thy Children confirmed from our weaknesses by thy Spirit and continued in thy service with thy self Ah the safety the assurance the steadiness the solace the sole and supernatural satisfaction that is in fulness of Faith upon thee the Messiah the Lamb of God who makest us thereby the Temples of the living God the City of the Lamb the New Jerusalem that shall ascend up above and be made illustrious with all the Jewels of the concord regularity and brightness of Spiritual Graces as with the eternal Riches of ineffable Love and heavenly Glory So that we shall never be removed from our Abode in Jesus Christ thou hast made our Rock so strong and if we believe surely we shall be establish'd for ever for the foundation of God stands sure As we shall here be surrounded with the munition of Rocks the Rock of Ages and all his Angels like Jerusalem the holy City so also we shall be wholly blest and saved to the very uttermost For neither the blasts of Temptation the Spirit that rules in the Children of Disobedience shall attack the corners of our Dwellings as

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