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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Sparke 5.
O Blessed Lord (the true loade-stone of love) as thou hast made me after thine own image,* 1.1 so repair it in me, that by loving thee a∣gain for thy love, I may be the more like unto thee which art love it self: Let the beams of thy love so warm me, and so beat upon my cold heart, that it may reflect unto thee again: And as thou hast loved me above all the works of thy hands;1 1.2 so grant I may love thee a∣gain above Father, Mother, Wife, or children, and be ready to forsake all and fol∣low theek 1.3: Yea let me love nothing in comparison of thee, nor any thing but in
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thee and for thy sake. There∣fore, Lord, let nothing seem sweet or worthy of love in my sight besides thee: for such as love thy namel 1.4 shall be joyfull in thee. There∣fore as thou art love ever∣lasting, so grant I may love thee with an everlasting love: and as thou art all love, so grant I may love thee with all my love; And as thou lovest all the works of thy hands (and hatest no∣thing which thou hast made) but especially man above all; so grant that for thy sake I may love all the works of thy hands, as they are thy works, but thee a∣bove all, through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.