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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Title: 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.
Publication: London, :: Printed for Edw. Thomas at the Adam and Eve in little Brittain without aldersgate,; 1658.
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Subject terms: Devotional literature -- Early works to 1800.; Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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Cite this Item: "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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Sparke 8.

O gracious God, as thou hast made me in the best fa∣shionp 1.1 more excellent than all other Creatures, thy holy Angells excepted; So grant I may yeeld the sweeter love & more plea∣sant service than they, by how much my Creation

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excelleth theirs. Let me not bear leavesq 1.2 but fruits, and those fruits which are most sweet and pleasant in thy sight. Let my prayer be fervent,r 1.3 my zeal bur∣ning,a 1.4 my faith unfain∣ed,b 1.5 my fear filiall,d 1.6 my obedience child-likee 1.7 my almes cherefull, with∣out ostentation, and my whole life a patternf 1.8 for my posterity, through that true pattern of all purity, Jesus Christ our Lord, A∣men.

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p 1.1

Gen. 1. Psal. ••. Col. 3.

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q 1.2

Mat: ••1. Mark 11.

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r 1.3

1 Cor. 14.

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a 1.4

Psal. 69. and 119. 2 Kings 10.

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b 1.5

Mat. 9. 1 Tim. 1.

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d 1.6

Psal. 86.

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e 1.7

Luke 2.

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f 1.8

Mat. 5.1••.

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