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 16, 2024.

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Sect. XL. Christ's Passion, the soul's best salve.

GOod Lord,* 1.1 we have often seen those men that have been delivered from some dangerous and desperate sickness to be ever delighted with the very name of that medicine that helped and healed them, prescribing it unto their

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friends for a chief and pre∣sent remedy in all such des∣perate cases; and now we have found by the pacifica∣tion of our own conscience that thy merits are the best medicine for our Sickness.

Sparke 40.

* 1.2O Lord, it is by thy stripes that we are healed of all our sins. Thy bloud is the onely plaister, where∣by our wounds may be cu∣red.* 1.3 Therefore, let us ever be delighted with this salve, let us by thy grace prescribe it unto others. O Lord, poure the oyl of thy mercy into our festred wounds, thy blood, hath helped many of thy Saints,* 1.4 and it is not yet dry, but fresh

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and powerfull to heal mee.

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