〈♫〉〈♫〉 AFTER the long Night of a State, so dark as ours, so de╌so╌late; who could so much as Dream, that we should wake out of Cap╌ti╌vi╌ty? But when God took that Plague a╌way, that E╌gypt which on Si╌on lay; our Pangs, like Dreams, a╌way did fly, and we had safe de╌li╌ve╌ry.
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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Pleas'd, and transported with our Change,
By a Recovery so strange;
(As Cripples cur'd by Wonders) we
Soon got both Strength and Liberty.
Soon we got well, well home; and found
Grief did no Soul, no Body wound:
But Hearts and Tongues in Psalms agree,
And they got Feet as well as we.
Then both our Chains and Silence broke;
Then Pagans too, the Truth thus spoke:
The Lord hath done great things for ye;
The Lord hath done so, answer'd we.
Therefore God's Works with joy we tell,
Which may convince the Infidel;
And call up Pray'rs for such as be
Not yet return'd from Slavery.
O! were our Friends (our Foes and all)
Redeem'd from their Egyptian Thrall;
From Satan, and from Sin set free,
How welcome were their Liberty?
Welcom as Nilus in the South,
And sweet as Show'rs in days of Drouth;
For all, with us, we long to see
Reap Mirth, who plough'd in Misery.
Sure, Lord, thy Lab'rers, in the heat
Who take the pains, shall tast the Wheat;
And may with shouts receive from thee
A Largess of Prosperity.
We, who dropt little hopes in Tears,
When driven hence by Foes or Fears;
Now loaded back with Solace, see
Rich Incomes from Captivity.
Thus the poor Seeds-man sadly goes,
While on the ground his Wealth he strows;
But when the Harvest Crowns him, he
Jogs home with Sheaves and jollity.
So they who shed a few small Tears
I'th' Seed-time of their Hopes and Fears,
Shall glad Returns from Sadness see,
And shock up more Felicity.
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Nay, he that goes from hence, and bears
To Earth his Dust, to Heav'n his Tears;
Shall find those precious Grains to be
Vast Crops in blest Eternity.
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
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Acts 3.9.
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2 Thes. 3.7, 8, 9.
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Eundo ibit, & flendo port••••s pretlum seml∣nis: pretlosum ob caricaiem.
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Veniendo ve∣niet cum ex•••• sat••••••.