XIII. MEDITATION.
The preparatory Prayer.
Actiones nostras, &c.
FIRST POINT.
I Wil consider a triple musike, wherof the first is heard in Hea∣uen, the second in earth, the third
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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"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 9, 2024.
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in the hart of man, deuout to God. The first truely, the Angels, frame of three parts, the Cherubins, Sera∣phins, Thrones, sing the treble, who with a most high and shril conten∣tion of the voyce, chant the diuinest things, the eternity of God his im∣mensity, power, and the rest of the diuine attributes. The Vertues, Do∣minations, Principates, in a certain midle tenour are occupied in pro∣clayming the mysteries of grace, the Incarnation, of the Sonne of God, his virginal Natiuity, Passiō, Death, Resurrection, Ascention. Lastly the Principates, Archāgels, Angels, with a graue and lower tone, sing the creation and conseruation of the world, and the rest of this kind.
4. Point. Attend now to the other musike, made on earth, proclayming the diuine prayses, which is the or∣der, symetry, and apt agreement of
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al the parts of the world, with and among themselues; in which Quire, the foure elements with an harmo∣n••ous discord play their parts admirably together. The Heauens li∣kwise make vp the consort, while they declare the glory of God to the whole world, for neither are the words or speaches, whose voyces, may not be hard.a 1.1
3. Point. The third symphony is held in the Temple of mans hart, and then is that melody made, when al the faculties of the soule, con∣tayne themselues vvithin their parts and functions; vvhen reason playes the treble, the inferiour appetite beares the base, when our wii agrees with the diuine and supreame wil: and such is the sweet∣nes of this harmony, as fils he mind with immense pleasure. And no maruel, while IESVS hmself mo∣derats
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al this musike with his most certaine and temperate rules and measure.
THE COLLOQVY.
TO the blessed Spirits, whom I wil inuite, first, to sing prayses to the Diuinity: then wil I also stirre vp my self to accommodate my voyce with theirs: wherefore with al the endeauour of my mind, wil I sing with them this diuine verse, Lord thy wil be done as in Heauen, so in earth.
Pater. Aue.
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a 1.1
Psal. 18.