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Secrete Meditati∣ons of the hart to stir vs vp vnto god∣linesse.
BY creation, I am a man, made of earth: therefore transitorie & mor∣tall.
Yet indued with a minde, that is to say; with vnder∣standing, reason, and iudge∣ment:
The poore mans Pater noster with a preparatiue to praier: wherto are annexed diuers godly psalmes and meditations: collected out of the sacred scriptures, by Thomas Timme minister.
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- The poore mans Pater noster with a preparatiue to praier: wherto are annexed diuers godly psalmes and meditations: collected out of the sacred scriptures, by Thomas Timme minister.
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- Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.
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- [London] :: Newly imprinted the second time by Peter Short, dwelling on Bredstreet hill, at the signe of the Starre,
- 1598.
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- Church of England -- Prayer-books and devotions -- Early works to 1800.
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by which I may vnder∣stand that most excellent good¦nesse, which is God, and may bee ioyned with him in im∣mortalitie and blessednesse.
But my reason, vnderstan∣ding, and iudgement, beeing by the malice of Sathan cor∣rupted, I do neglect this hap∣pinesse.
I rather séeke to enioy the delights and pleasures of my flesh. In the most vile & tran∣sitorie things, I occupie my whole minde.
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I ouerwhelme my selfe wholie with earth, of heauen∣lie I make my selfe earthlie: and change my selfe from a reasonable man into a brute beast.
But god who once loued me in his sonne Christ dooth not forsake mee, but calleth mee still outwardlie by his word, and inwardlie by his holie spirite, and knocketh at the doore of my heart and minde, that I might loue him, feare him, and serue him.
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Yet I am deafe, and blind, and being more stonie hear∣ted than flint, dooth féele no∣thing.
O vnthankefull wretch that I am, which doo neglect, and despise so great bene∣fites.
God gently offereth to lead me by the hande, and I stub∣bornlie turne awaie my face from him.
Awake my soule, lift vp thy selfe, and lette vs not
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thus wallow in our filthines, stoutlie striue thou agaynst wicked custome: tread vnder thy foote these contemptible and vile delightes, and co∣uet after the most excellent things.
Nowe God calleth; I will hearken to him, hee leadeth me, and I will follow him: he offereth himselfe, and I will take the oportunitie, hee she∣weth the waie to euerlasting blessednesse: I will not turne away my face, but will séeke
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to attaine.
¶Print these things in thy minde, and let them not be in vaine and in∣effectuall cogitations; but put them in prac∣tise, and thou shalt receiue the fruit.