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.

Is a Commemoration, not unlike that Solemn one, which every true Israelite was to make at the Offering of the First-Fruits;* 1.1 and Secondly, a Prognostication of the cursed End and Ruine of the Church her Enemies, from the Consideration of the wonder∣ful Deliverance which God had wrought, and reiterated for his People a Juventute (both from theirs and the World's Infancy;) so that at length their Adversaries, according to their Prayers, shall be but weak, few, like the Grass on the House top,* 1.2 that wither before it's pulling.

But Zion's Foes (saith Ezra, or whosoever it was, who in his Time compiled this Prophetical Psalm and Prayer) shall one Day be so inconsiderable, that as they shall have no Eulogies to encou∣rage their Growth or Harvest, so they shall need no Weapon to cut them down; for they shall drop away shamefully of their own accord, without a Dominus Vobiscum said unto them:* 1.3 For all they may say (though not of a Truth) what once a Sennacherib and a Rabshakeh falsly affirmed, That God is with us.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Deut. 26.35, 36, 37.
• * 1.2

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, not growing up, there being formerly a Meter, or gatherer of Grass (as we have now of Grain), most in fashion about those fertile Countries, where Grass is of an excessive length even at this day, (as modern Travellers affirm.)
• * 1.3

  1 Cor. 14.25.