La scala santa, or, A scale of devotions musical and gradual being descants on the fifteen Psalms of Degrees, in metre : with contemplations and collects upon them, in prose, 1670.

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BLes—sed be God for the good News, and Freedom, which he doth afford: From th'House of Bondage, like glad Jews, we come un—to thy House, O Lord.

Our Woes and Wand'rings now shall cease, While rooted fast, like Trees, we stand Within thy Courts; who dost with Peace Plant us again in our own Land.

Our Joys shoot up with fresh encrease, While rooted fast, like Trees, we stand Within thy Courts; who dost with Peace Plant us again in our own Land.

See,* 1.1 see, how comely! how compact! Peace makes this Gyant-City seem: Our Union makes her Form exact, Like th' Heav'nly New Jerusalem.

Whither, to an Eternal Feast All the Lord's Tribes at last shall go; And on his Hill above find rest, As we do in his House below.

Here now, (as at a Passover) Our Tribes (like Streams) i' th' Ocean meet; To serve thee, as thy Laws averr: And Praise thy Name, that is so great.

Here now, (as at a Passover) Our Tribes (like Streams) i' th' Ocean meet; To serve thee, as thy Statutes are: And Praise thy Name, that is so great.

Here is God's Temple, David's Throne, The Bench of Justice, Mercy's Seat: Here Princes, Prophets, Priests make known How good our Church! our State how great!

Here's the Blest Type of Heav'n above, Pray then for Salem; here for Peace: Since they who love this Place, do prove Happy, and blest with much Encrease.

Lord, bless us, and this Place, with Peace, With Plenty, and with Piety: For thy Name's sake, let our's encrease, Our King's, and Friends Prosperity.

All Tyes, both Humane, and Divine; Our Love for Men, our Zeal for God, What we can do, or wish,* 1.2 combine To seek the Bliss of this aboad.

Gloria Patri, &c.

In the Lord's Praise let none be Dumb, But Father, Son, and Ghost adore; Who was, and is, and is to come, Thrice Blessed God for evermore.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Hierosolyma optime instituta concors, & ideo duratura.
• * 1.2

  Fiat Pax An∣temurali tuo, & Abundantia, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. in Palatiis, Turriam ad in∣star structis.