The preparatory Prayer.
Actiones nostras, &c.
THE PRELVDE.
I Would to God they would be wise, & prouide for the last things.a 1.1
The devout hart or Royal throne of the pacifical Salomon. Composed by F. St. Luzuic S.I. Translated out of Latin into English. Enlarged with incentiue by F. St. Binet of the same S. and now enriched with hymnes by a new hand
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- The devout hart or Royal throne of the pacifical Salomon. Composed by F. St. Luzuic S.I. Translated out of Latin into English. Enlarged with incentiue by F. St. Binet of the same S. and now enriched with hymnes by a new hand
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- Luzvic, Stephanus, 1567-1640.
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- 1634.
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"The devout hart or Royal throne of the pacifical Salomon. Composed by F. St. Luzuic S.I. Translated out of Latin into English. Enlarged with incentiue by F. St. Binet of the same S. and now enriched with hymnes by a new hand." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06534.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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1. Point. Consider IESVS to be an excellent Painter, who with the only pencil of the mouth, to wit, the draught of one litle word of fiat, painted the whole world with so great and artificious a variety of co∣lours; and how in each creature he hath expressed very excellent linea∣ments of his power, wisdome, and goodnes.
2. Point. Thinke what force hath the liuely image and representation of death, perticular iudgement, and Hel, to restraine the lawles liberty of our life and too excessiue mirth; and how much the remembrance of the heauenly glory preuayles to stirre vp the mind in the course of vertue, and to take away the difficulties they vse to meet with, who walk that way.
3. Point. Thinke this also with thy self, how the pictures and the images of the foresaid things expressed, at
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no tyme, should be wiped away from the table of the hart, this being the sourse of al our teares and errours, to be so careles and backvvard to conceiue and premeditate before hand, vvhat is to be exhibited in the last act and period of our life.
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a 1.1
Deut. 32.