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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[Rouen] :: Printed by Iohn Cousturier,
1634.
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Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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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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THE PREAMBLE
to the Meditation.
IESVS was on the top of mount
Thabor, in the friendly company of
S. Peter, Iames, Iohn, Moyses & Elias;a 1.1 when sudenly his face began to
shine like the sunne, his garments to
be as white as snow, and the hil it∣self
to glitter al with flashing rayes,
flowing from his countenance. But
when Moyses heretofore ascended on
mount Sinay, to receiue the law of
God in stony tablesb 1.2 the people
beheld al the place to be set on fire
to sparkle, to burne, to shine al
ouer. Lastly Elias chariota 1.3 the
fiery sword of the Cherubin, watch∣ing
at the gate of Paradise,d 1.4 the
foure beasts of Ezechiel,e 1.5 and al
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furniture about them, seemed not
onely to shine, but to burne also. But
what-said the Spouse of her beloued
and his chast loue? His lamp, said she,
are lamps of fire and flames; many waters
were not able to extinguish charity.f 1.6
O fires and liuing flames euen in the
midst of flouds of waters! This is
the fire which encloses the hart so,
and sends forth such radiant and re∣fulgent
rayes, as banishing al dark∣nes,
al things shine and burne both
within and without. Of this lamp
mercy is the oyl; and that truly inde∣ficient,
as flowing from an inexhau∣stible
chanel, the very bowels of
God. This is that wal of fire, which
God had prouised by the Prophet,
g 1.7 which being interposed; the
lyons creast would fal, the enemy be
forced to turne his back, and he be
smit & strucke with a thunder-bolt,
who should once goe about to set
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there to his sacrilegious hand. But
of al these wonders, this is most to
be wondred at, that as the greene
bush amidst the purest flames did
burne vntouchedh 1.8 and impeached
a whit, and God himself was heard
to preach therein, as in pulpit; so the
hart encompassed al with flames, &
therewith round beset, most constāt∣ly
alwayes burnes and is not consu∣med,
but euer shines and flasheth
ligth, since IESVS raises and resus∣citates
those fires, and feedes the im∣mortal
flames. Marke here, how
high the smoak of these fires mounts
vp to heauen. Goe to then, come
hither with your thuribles and in∣cense:
How nigh in a moment the
incense of such fires sends forth most
sweet odours to Heauen! How spee∣dily
the vowes and prayers commen.
ded to this fume, arriue at the throne
of heauen! The Heauens with this
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exhalation shal breath forth Nectar:
The ayr repurged shal sauour sweet∣ly,
the threats and rage of Deuils
shal expire; for indeed they can
no more endure these odours, the
grunting snowts of swine abide the
breath exhaling from the sweetest
smelling lillyes; and therefore shal
they be enforced to fly away, and
returne againe into the immost and
most hidden receptacles of Hel.
This is the fire, this the flame,
which quenches the heat of concu∣piscence;
for as one nayle driues out
another, so the fire of diuine loue
expels and represseth the libidinous
flames of base and carnal loues.
Burne therefore my hart, o IESV,
the dearling of my soule, and let not
the oile of the lamp be euer wanting:
be this fire as a wal vnto me;i 1.9 be it
as a sunne, and be this my chiefest
ambition, that I burne and be con∣sumed
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with this flame: Yea, and be
reduced into ashes; then those ashes
into a litle worme, and presently be∣come
a new hart. O Metamorphosis
of loue! But first would I haue the
old be throughly tryed, in the litle
furnace of his loue, the drosse, and
al the dregs to be scoured thence,
and no humane and terrene lees to
be left behind, but meerly to take
a heauenly state vpon it: to liue a
spiritual life, to feed on spiritual food
to vse a spiritual tongue, to haue spi∣ritual
feet and hands; yea diuine
cogitations and affections, & not
done by aspects only, but euen
Angelical. In summe may this hart,
thus purged and purified, giue forth
hereafter naught but a liuely and
euerlasting figure of a blessed im∣mortality.
So then doe thou my
dearest IESV) here fix thy hart, at
last; dwel here in thy Palace; and
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here shoot forth the glittering rayes,
of thy glory,