Sect. C. The death of his Saints is dear in the Lords sight.
IT is not without great reason that murther is so hatefull unto God; that the bloud of the slain crieth
To pneuma ksopyrén, or Sparkes of the spirit, being, motives to sacred theorems, and divine meditations. / By a reverend father of the Church of England.
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- To pneuma ksopyrén, or Sparkes of the spirit, being, motives to sacred theorems, and divine meditations. / By a reverend father of the Church of England.
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- Davies, Athanasius, b. 1620 or 21.
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- London, :: Printed for Edw. Thomas at the Adam and Eve in little Brittain without aldersgate,
- 1658.
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- Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.
- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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in his ears for revenge. For if we respect the majesty of Goh himself, what can be more odious to him than to see his own image defaced in his own presence? or what can be more contemptuous, than to kill one in his view which he loved so dear, that he gave his onely son to dy for him? Nay, what more wicked than willfully to deprive him of life, of whose life and safety God was so carefull, that he numbred the haires of his head, least one of them should perish?
Sparke 100.
O Lord, keep mee from bloud thirsty men, give me grace to love thy image for
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thy sake, and not to destroy that which thy hands have made, and for whom thy son died.