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 8, 2024.

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Sparke 39.

O Lord, let my estate be what thou wilt, So I may be thine,* 1.1 make me as one of thy hired servants, and feed me, if not with thy dainties,* 1.2 yet with the crums that fall from thy table. If I must taste of thy vineger and gall for a while in this world, yet if in the end I

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shall be fed at thy table with Manna, I shall digest it with a good stomack, and look after it with a cheerfull countenance, as Daniel did,* 1.3 for if thou, Lord, be with me, what can hurt me?

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