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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"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 INCENTIVE.
1. THe hart which loues God truly and perfectly indeed, is a heauenly Paradise; so flowers it ouer and swimmes in delights; not the counterfeit, and transitory de∣lights of this world, but of the other life; such as here, neither eye hath seen, nor eare hath heard, nor hath ascended into mans harta 1.1
2. Here now IESVS stands not behind the wal, peeping at this Spouse through a grate;b 1.2 but, which she beg'd at his hands, shewes her his face, the diuine Essence, the three diuine Persons, so cleerly and manifestly indeed, as euen the ima∣ges themselues expressed, reflect againe in the Chrystal of the hart. O Paradise! O delights! O ioyes!
3. The hart faints through aboun∣dance
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of loue and delights and nigh bursts with al, O man! what a beast thou art, if hearing of these pleasu∣res, thou rather choosest the husks of swine? How like a block and stone, if yet thou louest not IESVS?
Notes
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a 1.1
Rom. 8.
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b 1.2
Cant. 2.