XCI. Meditat.
CIcero spake at random, when he said, Ad decus & libertatem na∣ti sumus, We are born to liberty and honour. It is
Divine breathings: or, A pious soul thirsting after Christ
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- Title
- Divine breathings: or, A pious soul thirsting after Christ
- Author
- T. S. (Thomas Sherman)
- Publication
- London,: Printed for Robert Pawlett, at the sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane near Fleet-street,
- 1671.
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- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"Divine breathings: or, A pious soul thirsting after Christ." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/B05844.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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thou, O regenerate Soul! that art born a Child of Love, and Heir of Glory: Thou art he, O excellent Saint! that art cloathed with the Sun, and crown∣ed with the Stars, and reckoned among the An∣gels of God: O think up∣on thy dignity, and consi∣der, Will an Emperour live like a Beggar? Is it a becoming thing for those that are cloathed in Scarlet to embrace a Dunghill? Am I born of God, and shall I live like a man? Hath God raised my Spi∣rits with the highest excel∣lencies, and shall I stain my Nobleness with poor empty vanities? May I
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feed upon a Christ, and shall I feed upon Dust? Shall I sit to judge the World, and shall I be a Drudge to the World? Hath Christ prepared for me a Mansion in the Hea∣vens, and shall I be grovel∣ing in the Earth? Am I a Child of light, and shall I commit the works of dark∣ness? No, (as Seneca says) I am born to great and higher things, than to be a slave unto Lust, or a drudge unto the World.