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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Title: 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.
Author: Davies, Athanasius, b. 1620 or 21.
Publication: London, :: Printed for Edw. Thomas at the Adam and Eve in little Brittain without aldersgate,; 1658.
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Subject terms: Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.; Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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Sect. XXII. A Christian the best Artist.

AN upright Christian is a Musitian, a Physiti∣an, a Lawyer, and a Divine to himself: For, What is sweeter musick than the witnesse of a good consci∣ence? What is better Phy∣sick, than abstinence and

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patience? What deeper counsell in Law, than in having nothing, to possesse all things? And what soun∣der Divinity, than to know God & whom he hath sent, Jesus Christ?

Sparke 22.

O blessed Jesus, let my musick be peaceo of con∣science, and joyd in the holy Ghost. My Physick the blessed potions and re∣storatives of thy precious blood. My Policy to keep thy statutes. And my Divi∣nity to know Christ and him crucified, and in the end with joy to behold him glorified, for the merits of his bitter death and passion, Amen.

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A Salve for every sore.

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Rom. 14.19.

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& 14.17.

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