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I Present you, my HARTS most deare to Iesus, with a wounded HART, enfla••ed al with diuine loue. This is the Royal Throne of your Spouse the Pacifical Salomon, the Sanctuary wherin▪ God would haue perpetual Sacri∣fice to be offred, the Tower which IESVS hath taken to defend against al hostile inua∣sion;
which being wrong∣fully vsurped, and sacrile∣giously profaned, he recouers, purgeth, expiates, then takes and cōsecrates for his Palace, Temple, and Tribunal. Here Iesus exercises his commands, here he raignes, here he tea∣cheth, here cutting off al de∣murres of appeales he pro∣nounceth sentence of eternal predestination or reproba∣tion; here he rayseth thun∣ders and lightnings, here sweetly dartes he rayes of light, not vsually seen in this sublunary Globe. Finally I offer here the HART, the heauen and Court of the supreame Moderatour of soules.
But why especially to you? Surely I should thinke this guift could be no-where held in more esteeme or taken for a greater fauour, then by you, whom I know wel to be not only singularly tray∣ned vp and exercised in these diuiner things, but so ardently affected to them, as that you set by the loue of this one IESVS more then al the gra∣ces and fauours of Kings & Princes in the world: Since in your soules the Crosse of Christ and loue of holy po∣uerty, is deeper and more strongly imprest, then al those mushrumps of honours, that pelf of riches, those
Grand-Sires seales, and fa∣mous images of old, then al those goods, so commonly called, which men of your ranck and quality either ea∣sily promise to themselues, or more ambitiously hunt after.
I present to you a breife Table, wherin (speaking with modesty) I haue suc∣c••nctly delineated in short points of meditations the summe of al Christian per∣fection, and that meerly for your sakes, and the rest who thinke and loue the same with you; where no sooner shal you fix your eyes on that image of Diuine loue, how il
pourtraicted soeuer with a ride pencil, but you shal ea∣sily discerne, I ••ow, a liuely Image, truly represented, of al those faire and goodly ver∣tues you haue formed in your mindes, and shal find no doubt by what wayes and degrees the diuine goodnes hath led you to the top of this Mount, from whence, remayning yet on earth, you may contemplate euen hea∣uen it-self, that land of pro∣mise, and blessed inheritance of the children of God; and where you haue the most ca∣lamitous regions of the vn∣fortunate Aegypt and Babylon, the mother of confusion, not
only subject to your eyes, but trod vpon and trampled vn∣der-foot. Accept then, my soules most deare to heauen, this guift such as it is, not regarding so much the hand which giues, as the giuers hart. For my part I haue but dipt, as I may say, my finger in the hony-combs, which here lye hid in certayne figures and Images, as folded vp in wax: but the Holy Ghost, I trust, wil copiously deriue the purest hony thence, and consequently open the very fountaines of nectar it-self, and most aboundantly dew your minds with showers of
diuine graces; so doe I hartily vow, so wish, re∣mayning,
Your most humble and obedient seruant in Christ. STEVEN LVZVIC.