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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TO THE R. WORTHY AND VERTVOVS COVPLE, W. STANDFORD ESQr, AND ELIZABETH his wife.
MY DEAREST,
I heer present you with a HART, not fram'd of flesh and bloud, the seat and citadel of the
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vital spirits, but the image of a HART fully fraught with pious and amorous affects; a hart, not in idaea, but liuely deciphered with deuout Em∣bleams▪ Pictures (as Symo∣nides saith) are silent Poe∣sies, and Poesies speaking pictures. Both the one and the other are heer exhibited to your viewes, accompanyed with deuout Meditations, where euery title speakes but the loue of IESVS. If you eye wel and marke these silent Poesies, giue care to these
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speaking pictures, but chiefly make vse of the Medi∣tations in the repose of your recollected thoughts, you wil proue by a happy expe∣rience how proper they are to rayse a soule to a soue∣raigne aspiration of diuine things. The Authours Pre∣face points you forth his scope, and his whole dis∣course displayes it better; to which I referre you, and my self and labours heerin to your more fanou∣rable acceptation, that could
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not be satisfyed but with thus expressing and pro∣fessing my selfe to al the world, to be
Your most obliged and deuoted H. A.