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.
Author
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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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A74704.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.

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Sect. XXX. Of Christ's vertues in healing, and Satan's policie in hurt∣ing.

IT is no wonder that the Devill did so much pre∣vail against the Jewes to have Christ tormented in e∣very member;* 1.1 as his Head with Thornes, his Hands and Feet with Nailes, his Sides with the Spear, his Eyes with Spittings, his Face with buffettings, and his Taste and Mouth with Gall; for the Devill well perceived, that there issued out great vertue from every member of Christ. For he

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healed the Leper by touch∣ing him with his hand; he healed Peter by looking back upon him with his eye; he healed Matthew with his mouth, by saying, come and follow me; he healed the deaf and dumb with his fin∣gers, by putting them into his ears; he healed Mary Magdalen with the vertue that went from his feet, when she washed them wih her tears; he healed the wo∣man diseased with the twelve years issue, with the hem of his garment; he healed & raised up Lazarus out of his grave with his voice, sayin, Lazarus come forth; he held all the souls of his children with the blood and water that ran out of his blessed side.

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Spark 30.

Heal us, O Lord, for our bones areb 1.2 vexed, send out thy curing Word, and heal our wounded soules that refuse all manner of comforts;c 1.3 say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.d 1.4 O thou pittifull Saviour, and sweet Samaritan,e 1.5 leave me not thus wounded and half dead in the high∣way of perdition, but bind up my wounds, and poure therein the oyle of thy ever∣lasting grace, through Je∣sus Christ our Lord, Amen.

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