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

Charity unto God himself who is Love and the Man that can get thither saith St. John dwells in Gods 1 John 4.16 and God in him These Five Ascents are to be often mounted and if in honour to the holiest Trinity they are thrice gone over in our youthfullest in our strongest and in our oldest Age we shall be perfect in our Duty by such Repetitions of it and not think the Fifteen Ascents to God's House at all too many or too steep or tiresom FINIS ERRATA IN the Epistle to the Reader Page 1. Line 28. for quote read Court p. 3. l. 48. read Sketch p. 4. l. 19. for ones read ends l. 49. read Ite In the next Epistle of the Author at l. 12. insert its p. 2. l. 12. read to Heaven p. 3. l. 8. read perfect ones In the Book p. 8. l. 7. read thee p. 9. l. 2. read it natural and born with us l. 32. read or recover it THE Eucharist at Easter 1657 ON THE Happy Recovery Of my Most Dear and Honour'd LUCINDA ANGELS come tune my Joys since they require Notes pure and high like those which ye inspire Blest Saints of Heav'n could ye impart your Mirth Then might I learn to sing of one on Earth One who hath not your Glory yet your Grace One equals you in Piety not Place Because she lives Nor can I more express To tell what 't is the World calls Happiness And since she lives I pray for nothing more But how to praise that help I did implore O God who art most powerful do thou please To give me thankfulness who gav'st her ease Give strength as to her Body to my Brain That with her health may Harmonize my strain And breath still vigorously like my past Fears In Lines more numerous than were earst my Tears While every gladsome Verse records at once My Gods and Mothers Resurrections Within the Spheres of which two Blisses move All I enjoy below hope for above But all my Words and Actions needs must be Lame Offerings fit for Vulcan not for Thee I cannot sing like David nor can I Be even like Saul when Saul did prophecy Yet by that Harp which was his cure I find A Tongue to ease my overjoyed Mind Therefore my Song shall fill the thankful Quire My Voice shall consort with the Hebrew Lyre To drown its Hoarsness in those sweeter Lays So hiding my Defects but not thy Praise The CXVI PSALM verse 1 I Love to praise thy Love most high Who to my Praise gav'st ear verse 2 While I have Breath to thee I 'le cry For thou my Cry did'st hear verse 3 Hell 's Prison made my Soul afraid Death's Snares beset me round 'Till to thy Name I sought for aid Nothing but Woes I found verse 4 But when I pray'd Lord ease my Woe O Lord save thou my Soul verse 5 His Grace and Goodness God did show Making his Patient whole verse 6 His Love and Justice is display'd Shiclding the lowly'st Head And raising mine whom Grief had laid Down low even near the Dead verse 7 Then Soul said I gad not abroad To lose thy sought-for Rest Thou seest Love fills the Heart of God O make that Love thy Host verse 8 That Love which keeps thee from the Grave Thy Foot from falls thine Eye verse 9 From Tears and gives thee Life to have This spent in Piety verse 10 Thus I believ'd and therefore pray'd 'Till Troubles shook my Trust verse 11 Then rashly said all Men are made Of Falshood as of Dust verse 12 But what bring I to thee I 'le take The Cup of Blessing Lord verse 13 And bless thy Name whose Mercies make Our Duty our Reward verse 14 I 'le pay my Vows in sight of them Whose Lives most holy are verse 15 Whose Deaths are in thine Eyes esteem As it s own sight most dear verse 16 Thy Handmaid's Son thy Servant Lord Thy Servant Lord am I bound faster to thee by the Cord Which thou art pleas'd t' unty verse 17 I 'le offer still unto thy Name My Life my Praise my Prayer verse 18 I 'le pay my Vows in sight of them Whose Lives most holy are To God the Father God the Son And God the Holy-Ghost Be Glory and let every one Strive who shall praise God most HALLELUJAH The XXVII PSALM LUCE tuâ fruamur LUCE verse 1 GOD is my Soul 's dear Light What should I fear but him God is my Life 's chief Health and Might What else should dreadful seem verse 2 When wicked ones my Foes Approach me to devour They shall fall down for they that rose Have fall'n into my Pow'r verse 3 Though many Troops besiege None shall my Heart dismay Though Men against me Battel pitch God's strength shall be my stay verse 4 This only Grace this boon Of God I now desire That in his House I may have room To pray in and retire verse 5 There I his Pleasure tast I have his shelter there There on a Rock I shall be plac'd In times of Grief and Care verse 6 For all my Foes surround When God their Siege hath rais'd Around his Courts with joyful sound God shall be greatly prais'd verse 7 O therefore hear me Lord When I rejoyce or cry Comfort or Mercy still afford And to my Call reply verse 8 When once it heard thy Grace my Heart to thee could speak O Lord thou said'st Seek ye my Face Thy Face Lord will I seek verse 9 Thy Face O never hide Nor turn it once away O Leave me not my God my Guide Whose strenth is all my stay verse 10 When Friends no care had took Thou didst for me provide Nay when my Parents me forsook Thou laid'st me not aside verse 11 Lord teach me thy plain way To shun each crooked Path Because my Foes would have me stray verse 12 O save me from their wrath See how the Faithless rise Against me and their Breath Would first ensnare by Calumnies Then cut me off by Death verse 13 Lord I had fainted quite Had I not hop'd to see Thy Goodness in this Life to light My Soul t' Eternity verse 14 Wait then on God poor Soul Take Courage kiss his Rod For he shall make thee strong and whole Wait then I say on God Glory and Praise allow To God in Trinity As at the first he was is now And evermore shall be The XXIII PSALM Paraphras'd THE King of Heav'n the God of Love Takes up a Shepherd's Crook As David did his Son above To his few Sheep will look Then though in Deserts they are left 1 Sam. 17.20 How safe are those few Sheep How safe am I from wolvish Theft Where Christ the Fold doth keep For while I wake he lets me feed By th' Sunshine of his Eye When I want Rest if ought I need His Arm 's my Canopy So that I shall not fear Death's Night Nay when Time's Bell has gone Darkness that harbours many a Sp'rite Shall let my Soul alone My Soul Return array'd then in its Light Such Glories shall put on As they that make my Shepherd white Who is my Shield and Sun He from a howling Wilderness Of Savages th' Aboad Hath brought me by his right Address Into fair Canaan's Road. There up and down meek Lambs he leads While Tides of Joy flow by Can his Flock want who kindly feeds Young Ravens when they cry Like Israel's Leader by the Flood Exod. 14.2 He bids his Army stay Then as he gave Elijah Food 1 King 19.8 He cheers them in their way The pow'r and goodness of our God Return Are our advance and stay Exod. 14.16 Elisha's Staff and Moses's Rod 2 King 4.29 Do Wonders less than they They save the Poor support the Weak Heal sick Folks help the Blind Soft Hearts they bead hard ones they break Thus nurturing the Unking For all Saul's envy Doeg's hate My Head and Beard is crown'd In spite of Foes I fit in state With Ease and Plenty round My Bowl 's with Wine swell'd to the brim With Oyl my Temples shine God is with me e're I with him His Goodness 't is not mine His Grace and not their own anoints Return Kings to the sway they bear His Spirit Royal Feasts appoints His Son is our best Cheer O that towards God my days could move Fast as to Death they tend My Thanks should keep pace with his Love And like it never END

hopes of Happiness for indeed obstinate Sinners are like the Ground which the Lord hath Cursed unworthy to have one Shower of good Wishes or Consolations bestowed upon them from good men and much more uncapable of the Dew of God's Blessing But Ah! let not my Portion be with such nor shut up my Life with the Bloody-minded but impower me to resist the Malice of the Evil-ones and so to rely upon thy Favour as to live under thy Protection and Cognisance and to be known for ever by the white Stone with a new name even by the blessing of thy holiest Name O Lord Jesus Amen The eleventh Step on the eleventh PSALM of Degrees being the 130 PSALM De profundis c. O Lord how wretched woful lamentable is the Condition of a Sinner who being turned into his own Enemy doth nothing but lay Ambushes for himself while he forgets ungratefully thy benefits he becomes most worthless and hated both of Heaven and Earth He deserves no Mansion but in Hell Alas unhappy Sinner how art thou forsaken by thy Creator Redeemer and Comforter even by all of thy God! and thy hopeless state is the more dreadful being accompanied with the fearful expectation of Judgement Thy Crimes bring with them unspeakable bitterness because they fore-bode Eternal Torments and thy Life is but a continual Death by reason of the gnawings of Conscience the Horror of thy guilt and the domineering of thine Enemies over thee Yet for all this with the lowest Humility that is due to the height of thy State and to the meanness of mine own while the requests of my Heart keep time with the Words of my Mouth I am bold to cry aloud for Mercy and beg thy Compassion O Lord God! although thy Mercy and Compassion may seem to stoop too low while they take up my Petitions unto thine Ears And if these are better emploied in hearkening to the Ecchoes of thy Glories to the Lauds of thy Saints and to the Harmony of Heaven yet let them not disdain the importunity of those longings after thee which arise from a firm desire and a deliberate Resolution and address themselves to the Footstool of thy Goodness O Lord I know the King of Israel is a merciful King I know thou takest pleasure in hearing the Requests of thy poor Creatures especially if they proceed from humble Hearts and contrite Spirits I know that thou art ready to put a stop to the Musick of Heaven and to give a pause to thine own Praises rather than the Prayers of such a poor Supplicant's should not be listened to Therefore Receive with grateful attention those cries of mine which bring with them the true evidences as I trust of Conversion as well as of Contrition It is the great prerogative of thy Uncircumscribed Majesty as to hear and determine of my guilty State So by thy Mercy to receive my Petitions and reprieve me from the Sentence passed on me by reason of my Crimes Therefore I beg thou wouldst not regard the number of my Sins nor the Quality and Aggravations of them which I will not pretend to enumerate by some few instances because thou knowest the minutest grain of my Offences Thou hast a particular of them all And Shouldest thou weigh our Guilt in the Ballance of thy Justice only shouldst thou be extreamly severe in thy punishment of what is amiss about us if thou shouldst not in thy Displeasure think upon thy pity and give this leave to Plead while the other arraigns O Lord who might abide thy presence or stand before thee in Judgment The brightest Angels are not pure in respect of thee and the most Holy would scarce be safe Where then should the Wickekd and Sinner appear but in the bottomless Pit of Destruction Had thy Wisdom thought good to have set thee only upon the Correction of our failings the World it self as well as we had been long since buried in the Cinders of our last Funerals and wholly burnt up with the Fire of thy just Displeasure But since thou hast set thy Pity and Good-will thy Son and thy Spirit as better Advocates between thy own Purities and thy Creatures Frailties than Mans weakned Nature or worse Infirmities could be for we all are too apt to set these on pleading for us as being ever near us yet Ah! let us beseech thee rather to listen to the others in our behalf hearken to that chiefest Councellor of thy self and us the most holy and gracious Paraclete and hear thy Son Interceding for us Wretches more freely than we hear him instructing of us Continue the incomparable Acts of thy Mercy and exercise the accustomed proofs of thy goodness towards us with the merits of Christ's precious Blood wash out my spots with the floods of my Tears quench the fire of my Lusts that I may not be found the Heir of Wrath or Child of the Devil For indeed the true Repentance of a Sinner is the sole effect of thy Bounty Man that is now made up of nothing but the mud of Earthly Debauches cannot so little as look up to Heaven with the Publican though he look no higher than the Clod he stands on without thy special influencing aid But this Ray thou hast promised by Ten thousand solemn attestations and 't is the Light of Mankind which thou hast afforded that it might light every one coming into the World Saints and Prophets have born witness that thou art the God of Sinnes if Penitent thou art the Redeemer of the most vile and miserable when they truely return to their Father's embraces Let it then be an Addition to thy Glories that thou hast more of Pity than I have of Provocation and that thou yet retainest better Dispositions to pardon Sins than I have Inclinations to commit them Through the excess of thy Goodness thou hast bounded thy own self and given less to thy Power and Justice than it might have challenged and therefore have I long waited for thy Salvation O Lord. I have endured the Stings of delay while I looked for thy Redemption and sighed for the effects thereof and I must avert my Labour hath not been in vain for I have found the Hopes thou gavest me to be answered thy Word concerning me to be true and good and thy promises to be performed They may be left to their own deceivings who wait upon the vanity of the world and build their expectations on mortal assurances My Heart being fixed on the verity of thy Covenant on the certainty of thy Promises on the Anchor of a lively Hope secures it self of meeting with such favour as is inseparable from thy Majesty For my own part I am guilty of a Thousand Crimes nor is there any thing in me but Filth and Frailty I have triumphed in my Vices as if I had liberty to commit them and not to overcome them even while I denied my betters the liberty of reprending them Instead of abasing my self to the Dust that Principle of