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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Title: 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.
Author: Coleraine, Hugh Hare, Baron, 1606?-1667.
Publication: London :: Printed by A. Godbid and J. Playford,; 1681.
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CXX-CXXXIV -- Paraphrases, English.; Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CXX-CXXXIV -- Commentaries.; Psalms (Music)
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〈♫〉〈♫〉

TO thee, who dost a—bide, 
a—bove the Starry Spheres,
yet hast our Griefs with Pi—ty ey'd;
to thee we send our Tears.

To Heav'n this Spring of Tears
From hence doth bubling rise;
* 1.1Which from low Grounds our Passion rears
To thee, that hast our Eyes.

* 1.2Nor do we need an Eye,
But to observe thy Hands:
Which way for Blessing us they lye;
By Chast'nings, or Commands.

Since oft,* 1.3 like Israel's Hands,
Thine, as a-cross, are spread;
For God (not Man) best understands
How to Crown Ephraim's Head.

Therefore we raise our Heads,
Not to repine, but pray;
To mark how our chief Joshua leads,
And how we him obey.

As Soldiers still obey
Their Leader's Staff, and Rod,
And at their Becks do go or stay;
So wait we on our God.

Thy Smile or Frowns, O God,
Like humblest Handmaids, we
Do bear; and from our Lord's aboad
* 1.4Do not (like Hagar) flee.

* 1.5No Jonas here will fly
From thee;* 1.6 (though Chasten'd) thus
We,* 1.7 as meek Servants, carefully
Stay, 'till thou pity us.

Thy Mercy we implore,
* 1.8Thy speedy Mercy, Lord:
For now our Lives are scorn'd; nay more,
Our very Souls abhorr'd.

By those we are abhorr'd,
(As we do loath their Pride)
Who can with Insolence afford
To wrong us, and deride.

But God shall them deride,
Whose Scorns o're-charge our Hearts;
When these are full, and can abide
No more, God takes our parts.

And since God takes our parts,
To him our Tears shall glide:
To him we'll lift our Looks and Hearts,
Who doth in Heav'n abide.

Now since God takes our part,
To him our Tears shall glide:
To him we'll lift our Looks and Hearts,
Who doth in Heav'n abide.

Gloria Patri, &c.

All Glory, Praise, and Bliss, To th' Three, in Unity; Who (as at first) was God, now is, And evermore shall be.

* 1.1

Psal. 121.1.

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* 1.2

By Hand in the Text is un∣derstood help, strength, or pro∣tection; by those who take the words of this Verse to imply the Ser∣vant's repair∣ing to his Lord for suc∣cour and de∣fence from Fo∣reign injuries. It also signifies bounty, directi∣on, and corre∣ction, to those who take the meaning as I apprehend it.

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* 1.3

Gen. 48.14, 19.

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* 1.4

Gen. 21.14.

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* 1.5

Jon. 1.3.

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* 1.6

Jon. 4.8.

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* 1.7

2 King. 5.2.

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* 1.8

Multum satu∣rata est Anima subsannatione: As if play'd upon, and scos∣sed at, by the Soldiery, while led in Triumph; ac∣cording to the expression in Psal. 137.3.

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