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 18, 2024.
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THE INCENTIVE.
1. SO long as IESVS is absent
from my hart. Ah me! what
monsters? what sordityes? what
Gorgons? what wicked fiends? what
hels are centered there?
2. When IESVS enters into the
hart, and therein pours his light,
Good God? what foule, what hor∣rible
prodigies of vices the mind
discouers there which the eyes had
neuer yet detected? I say while
IESVS puts forth his rayes, what
bestial manners? what perfidious∣nes?
what blots of an vngrateful
mind? what haynous crimes are re∣presented
in this detestable hart?
3. At these portents the very An∣gels
tremble. Yet goe thou on, my
most sweet IESVS; Illuminate the
darksom corners of the foule, cleanse
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this foule infamous stable. Amid
this Cymerian darknes, with glimps
of thy light bewray me to my self
that being hateful to my self, I may
abhorre and shune my self and so at
length may fly to thee, loue nothing
els but thee. Oh the only Darling
of my soule! O only loue of my
hart, my little IESVS!
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