For Saint George's, or All-Saints Day.
〈♫〉〈♫〉
BE—hold how plea—sant 'tis! how good!
But, O! how rare, and hard to find,
Brethren, of the same House and Blood,
be-come of the same way and mind.
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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- 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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- Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CXX-CXXXIV -- Paraphrases, English.
- Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms CXX-CXXXIV -- Commentaries.
- Psalms (Music)
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Page 75
Like Sampson's Honey,* 1.1 strong and sweet,
'Tis thus to see Men's Hearts and Hands,
As Jonathan's and David's meet,
* 1.2 Twisting together in Love's Bands.
When Prince and People so are one,
As that the Oyl,* 1.3 pour'd on his Head,
Down to the lowest Limb doth run;
In Grace, and Peace, and Pardon spread.
'Tis like the precious Ointment shed
* 1.4 Upon the High Priest's hallow'd Crown,
Which both perfum'd his Beard and Head,
And thence upon his Clothes fell down.
Thus have I seen Clouds big with Rain
First give their Dews to all the Hills,
And then show'r Wealth on the low Plain
As Friendship benefits distills.
On Friendship's Fleece God's Love brings down
Blessings,* 1.5 as numberless as Drops;
Which from Mount Sion deck the Town,
And cloath the Fields from Hermon's Tops.
As to the Vale, these Mountains are;
So to the Weak, the Potent prove
Useful and kind, though distant far;
Yet center'd, like the World, by Love.
For all our Comforts come from Love,
By Love; God gives the Happy Life;
That Blest below, and best above,
There without end, here without strife.
Page 76
Gloria Patri.
Glory to him who makes our Bliss,
To the one God, in Persons three;
As in beginning was, now is,
And shall be to Eternity.
AMEN.
Notes
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* 1.1
Judg. 14.14.
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* 1.2
1 Sam. 18.3.
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* 1.3
2 Sam. 19.39.5.3.19.23.
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* 1.4
Levit. 8.12.
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* 1.5
Judg. 6.38, 39. Vide Ham∣mond.