Sect. XVI. Of the holy Ghost's operation.
O Blessed comforter, it was thy divine will to shew thy self to thy chil∣dren in four sundry forms for our comfort and in∣struction. First like fire to manifest thy love and pow∣er.
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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- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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Secondly, like a cloud, to manifest thy pitty and compassion. Thirdly, like a Dove, to declare thy pa∣tience and peaceableness. Fourthly, like tongues, to shew thy wisdome and elo∣quence. For as the fire doth heat and warme all things, and ascend upward; so doth thy love warme our cold zeal, and cause our hearts to ascend up to seek those things that he above: And as the clouds do drop down waters, to wash the filthiness of the earth; so the grace of thy holy spirit doth cause often a cloud of sorrow for sins to arise in our hearts, and so to dis∣solve into tears at our eyes. Thirdly, as the Dove is a mild bird, void of gall; so
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that Dove-like spirit, the holy ghost would have his nest in our hearts, that we might be meek as thou art meeek, Lord, patient and peaceable like the milde Dove, void of anger and malice. Lastly, As the tongue doth exhort and perswade by the eloquence thereof; so the blessed spi∣rit of thee, our God by ap∣pearing in the forme of tongues, would have us to be exhorted and perswaded by the wisdome and elo∣quence thereof, and not to build upon vain philoso∣phy and humane wisdome.
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Sparke 16.
Gracious Father, let thy good spiri••,a 1.1 l••••d us in∣to the l••nd of righteous∣nesse, let it go still before us to give us asb 1.2 a pillar of cloud by day, and as the pill••r of fire by night. Yea, let him still be the starre of Grace, to direct us unto that blessed Saviour of the world,* 1.3 thy onely son Je∣sus Christ our Lord, Amen.
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a 1.1
Psal. 143.
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b 1.2
Exod. 13.21.
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* 1.3
•• Mat. 2.11