Sect. XXXIV. O Humility.
* 1.1GOod Lord, thou hast commanded us to learne of thee, that thou art meek and humble. Sweet Jesus, thou hast not said learne of me to make the world, to raise the dead, to
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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cast out Devills, to turne water into wine; but to be lowely of heart; and this lesson thou hast often com∣manded unto us by thine own examples. For thou hast chosen a lowly wo∣man to be thy mother, and a poor Carpenter to be thy reputed father; a lowly place to be thy bed of rest, which was the manger; a lowly house, which was but a stable in an In: a low∣ly brast to carry thy blessed body, which was but an Ass, lowly men to be thy disci∣ples and followers, being for the most part but poor fishers, a lowly exercise, which was to w••sh thy di∣sciples feet; and a lowly and base d••ath which was the detah of the cross.
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Sparke 34.
Good Lord, seeing thy precept is, that I should imitate thy patterno 1.2 so far as I can in my fraile na∣ture, grant me grace to en∣deavour and desire to be∣come like unto thee, not in thy power, knowledge or miracles; but in thy mo∣ralls: especially in true hu∣mility which is the first les∣son to be learned in thy schoole. Lord, when I think upon the poor Car∣penter, grant I brag not of my birth. When I think of the stable and m••nger wherein thou didst lye, grant I vaunt, not of my buildings, or be too desi∣rous of beds of downe for
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my ease. When I think that thy disciples were poor fish∣ersl 1.3 grant I may learn not to despise any poor brethren.a 1.4 O Saviour of soules, Let Mount Calvary be my Schoole; thy Crosse my Pulpit; thy Passion, my Meditation; thy Wounds, my Letters; thy Lashes my Comma's; thy Nailes my Ful points; thy open Side my Book; and to know thee Crucified, my whole lesson. Let me learn by thy naked∣nesse how to adorne me, by thy vineger and gall how to diet me, by thy prayer for thy Murtherers, how to revenge me, by thy cry on the Crosse, how to bewaile my sins, and by thy bloody swe••t, to weepe for my wickednesse.
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* 1.1
The Lesson of Lowli∣ness.
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o 1.2
Mat. 11.29.
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l 1.3
Mat. 4. Luke 5.
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a 1.4
Mat. 18.