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.
Publication
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 15, 2024.

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Spark 87.

O sweet Jesus, sleep not in the Ship of thy Church, still and stay all tempests and unruly stormes that may a∣rise to terrifie us. Lord, look upon us in these dan∣gerous times, wherein we are well nigh covered with wicked waves. Lord, save us least we perish, and re∣buke

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these winds and waves that trouble thy poor Ma∣riners.* 1.1 Good Lord, walke thou with us upon the Sea of this world, that if the Sea cast us up as dead, thou mayest receive us. Hinder the great Leviathan to de∣vour us, and the mighty Nimrods of the world to hunt after us, and let the needle of our affection re∣main alwayes stedfast to the Pole of thy Promises. Be with us on the Sea as thou wast with Jonah, and on the Land as thou wast with Jo∣seph; that if we be cast to the Whale's belly with the one, or into the Prisons profundity with the other, yet do thou never forsake us. But till our Cause be knowne, let us still out of

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the deep call upon thee; that the deep of thy mercy may help the deep of our misery, & so one deep may call upon another.

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