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A74704	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.	Davies, Athanasius, b. 1620 or 21.	1658 (1658)	Thomason E1903_1; ESTC R209994	79,302	390

might and majesty both now for evermore Amen Sect. LVII Trust not unto a rotten stick HE that trusteth to his own strength leaneth on a rotten stick For we see the skilfullest Wrastler sometimes have a fall the cunningest Fencer to have the foyle the stoutest Cantain killed the best Rider under his horses feet the nimblest Swimmer sunk under the water the best wits perish and the wisest men erre Sparke 57. O Lord God let me acknowledge my weaknesse and not presume on my strength For it is better to trust in thee than to put any confidence in Princes O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded Amen Sect. LVIII The best increase THe Husbandman's field doth bring him for every grain sometimes thirty sometimes forty sometimes sixty and sometimes an hundred sold If God so blesse our bodily labour How much more will he bless the labor of our souls If therefore we sow in tears we shall reap in joy If we sow in the Spirit we shall reap of the Spirit life everlasting For he that first seeketh the Kingdome of God and the righteousness thereof shall have all other things added unto it Sparke 58. O Lord give me grace to labour in the Spi●it to seek thy Kingdome to lay up treasure in Heaven that when the generall harvest shall come my eyes may be waking my lamp light and my self as a sheaf of wheat gathered into thy farne through Jesus Christ Amen Sect. LIX The Servant's access to his Lord. MAny a man is sain to travell farre to see a great man and to suffer many dangers and perhaps when he comes to his journeys end he shall find either his Lord from home or not at leasure perhaps dead or if alive not willing to pleasure him It is not so with God For if I come once to Heaven to see my Lord and Master my dear Father and best Friend as Mary and Joseph after their journey found him in the Temple amongst the Doctors so shall I be sure to finde him in his holy Temple amongst the Angells yea I shall be sure of such kinde entertainment that I shall never think of my paines and labour in coming or once dream to returne Sparke 59. Lord give me grace to be stedfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as I know that my labour is not in vain in the Lord. Lord I will come unto thee and seek thee whilest thou mayest be found I will knock and ●●ll at midnight at thy mercy and though I have no friends either to plead my cause or to preferre my petition unto earthly Lords yet dear Father I have an advocate in thy Court that will both plead my cause and pitty my case even thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Sect. LX. Soon ripe soon rotten THere is no flower that will not fade no fruit that will not corrupt no garment that will not wear no beauty which will not wither no strength which will not weaken and no time so long but at last will pass I cannot see these vanish and not say that my self must pass The flower of my youth is gone already my best fruits are corrupt my time passeth while I speak of it Sparke 60. Lord teach me to number my dayes that I may apply my heart to wisedom and have understanding in the way of godliness For the longer time thou givest me the more I have to answer Lord make me ready at thy call and sweet Jesus pay my debts for me Sect. LXI The best Pattern O Lord I need no better Master to teach me than he that is my Saviour For by his nakedness on the Cross I may learn to clothe me By his Crown of thorns how to adorne me By his Vineger and Gall how to diet me By his prayer for his Murtherers how to revenge me and by his whole passion for me how to suffer for him Spark 61. Lord give me grace in all my actions to learn of thee to be mercifull as thou art mercifull meek as thou art meek holy as thou art holy true as thou art true and faithfull as thou art faithfull Let me honour thee as a Creator love thee as a Redeemer and expect thee as a Saviour And in the mean while let me rest in thy peace that I may rise in thy power Sect. LXII Take heed how you walk LOving Father what time so ever I bestow out of thy service I bestow it on my self am a Thief because I rob thee of thy due And if I be more enamoured with any of thy blessings than with thee I commit Adultery and take another God before thee And if I spend good houres in evill actions to bad purpose then I commit Treason against thy Majesty Sparke 62. Give me grace most loving Father to serve thee in righteousnesse and holinesse all the days of my life to love thee with all my heart with all my strength and with all my soul and to do say nor think either in merriment or sobernesse but those things which may please thee and advance thy glory Sect LXIII The last Enemy THere is no Enemy which a man cannot avoid either by flying forward retyring backward or standing still hidden or disguised or at the least by prayer but death For if we go forward we meet death if backward it meets us If we stand still it is coming upon us Yea whether we sleep or wake go or stand all is one we must needs meet death Therefore we must be resolute and prepare our selves for this last enemy from whom we cannot fly It is but a bug-bear it hath lost his sting we need not fear Sparke 63. O Lord prepare thy servant to die Grant I may live the life of the godly that I may die the death of the righteous For what man liveth and shall not see death O Lord how precious in thy sight is the death of thy Saints for they sleep in thee and cease from their labour Grant Lord that I may put my house in order and joy that I must dye Sect. LXIV The insatiable Worm I See that all the Creatures and worms of the earth can live onely upon some kinde of food that comes from the earth either upon grasse hay or corne or upon some fruits of trees or herbes But man is from the earth and yet all the Creatures of the earth will not suffice him but he must go to the Fowles of the ayre and the fishes of the sea for daintie and all too little to satisfie his appetite So that if he had as many dishes as he lived dayes he would both desire and invent novelties Sparke 64. O Lord let me not pamper my body dayly with delicates but prepare my soul with dutifull obedience to feed on the heavenly Manna of thy word That having meat and drink to suffice nature I may learn therewith to be content Let his diet that was but a loaf and a fish with a cup of

He that will be a Courtier here must often forsake his own Countrey where he lived at ease the place where he was known and beloved the neighbors of whom he was visited the goods wherewith he was maintained his wife and children of whom he was comforted yea often be ●ain to remove when the Court removeth trusse up his baggage and load his horses seek him a newlodging But he that will mind to be of the great King's Court shall not go out of his Country but come into his Country not go from his neighbors that loved him but to such neighbours as wil ever love him he shall not there forsake his parents but meet them not lose his goods but find them not misse his comfort but receive it not often remove but for ever be at rest and most sure of a pleasant lodging Secondly In following earthly Courts a man shall hear many discontented persons about the Court that if he be good shall offend him much such as are rejected and favourlesse Courtiers meeting together murmuring at their Prince backbyting his councelors and Offic●rs c●ntemning his Laws envyng his liberality grudging at others favours some perhaps blaspheming th● d●vine providence for ei h r placing or suff ring such to be in credit and themselves to be discarded But in the supream Court of heaven every one shall hear his King glorified and his maker praised not envying but all rejoycing at the preferment and glory of their fellowes as at their own Thirdly when perchance in these earthly Courts a m●n may be crept into his Prince's favour to day as Haman was he may be out to morrow and while he continueth in favour he feareth every hour to fall and if ever he be once out of favour and in disgrace he commonly despaireth of regaining his former credit But it is not so with such as wait upon the Lord For whom the Lord loveth he loveth him unto the end he writes him in his Book called Vade mecum and from thence he shall never be blotted out though the earth be moved and though the hills thereof be cast into the midst of the sea Psal 46.2 Fourthly In the Court of earthly Princes men must be fearfull to move their Prince and to speak unto him and most commonly use their means that be most in favour to speak for them But in the high Court of heaven every Saint and Subject of the great King may boldly approach to the throne of grace and speak to his Soveraigne as to his kind and loving Father Fifthly Men commonly to win the favour of earthly Princes must spend much time and indure much toyle and the least dislike will oftentimes put them out of favour again and if they forgive the fault yet he should want their favour But God upon our willingness to do him service presently accepts of us as he did of the prodigall child and if we do offend him he is the slowest to conceive displeasure and the readiest to forgive This made the good King of Israel to say that he had rather be a door-keeper in the house of the Lord than to dwell in the Palaces of Princes Sparke 86. O most Mighty Magnificent and most Glorious King though we be unworthy to take the name of so high a Monarch in our mouthes or to lift up our sinful eyes unto the heavenly throne of thy glorious Majesty trusting in our own worth worthiness Yet having thy Word for our warrant thy Spirit for our guide and thy Son for our advocate we are imboldend to approach thy palace and through th● blood of thy Son and by his merits and obedience we see by the eye of Faith thy golden Scepter of favour and free access stretched out unto us Therefore we will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercies Psal 84 2.84.10 65. for most amiable are thy dw●llings O Lord God of hosts my soul hath a desire and a longing to enter into thy Courts For one day in thy Court is better than a thousand O Lord bless●d is the man whom thou choosest and receivest unto thee he shall dwell in thy Court and sh●ll be sat●sfi●d with the pl●asures of thy House Good Lord give me grace to love thee above all things and the place where thin● honour dwelleth O Lord gra t that I may dwel in thy house for ●ver and during the time of my pilgrimage here in thy House of Grace grant I may lead an uncorrupt life doe the thing that is right speak the truth from my heart neither doing evill to my neighbour nor slandering him nor setting by my self but to be lowly in mine owne eyes making alwayes much of them that fear thee having alwayes a regard to keep both my oath and my promise with God man hating all oppression bribery and usury that when the time of my removing shall come I may be sure to be transl ted from thy Court of Grace into the Kingdom of Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. LXXXVII The Sea-mans Card. DAvid said not without great reason that those that go downe to the Sea in Ships and occupy their business in great waters see the works of the Lord and his wonders in the deep For indeed those that be often at Sea behold so many wonders and such diverse godly observations that they never want there either a Sermon or a Preacher for every thing about them preacheth unto them First those Creatures that are in the Sea are great in quantity and innumerable exceeding farre the number of land-Creatures and y●t they all multiply without any lustfull copulation whereby we see that there is no encre●se like unto that which is void of sin and carnall lust such as the fruit of Zachariah and Elizabeth was or of Abraham and Sarah Again ●he condition of the Sea doth b●st describe unto us the condition of the world For as the Sea is in continua●l motion and never quiet but som●times toss●d up to the heavens and suddenly falling down again to the terrour of the beho●ders So in this world some are one while like proud surging waves hoysed up unto the highest sphear of honour and in a moment again thrust down into the lowest Down Den of disgrace Secondly as the Sea is alwayes unquiet untill it cast up his dead So the world is ever roaring and uneasie untill it cast out of it such as are dead unto the world and live unto God such the world is ready to vomit up to surfeit upon Thirdly as in the Sea the greater fish do devour the lesser and small ones So do the potent in this world eat and swallow up the poor Fourthly as the Sea is full of dangers as Rocks Sands and Syrens c. So is the world full of tri●lls and travells deceit and trouble perills without terrours within as the Apostle says casting Job into the Dunghill Daniell to the Den and Joseph to the Dungeon Fifthly as often

unto thee both wayes the greatness of thy sins the severity of his justice the shortnesse of this life and the eternity of that to come Reader Let me crave thy patience awhile mark diligently my words follow well my Counsell let these my words take deep impression in thy heart by all means walk in the strait way but let it be the right way beware of superstition in Religion to decline to the left hand and of rash zeal to run on the right be to God faithfull and to lawfull Authority not disloyall Endeavour to be what thou oughtest to be though thou canst not attain to that thou shouldest be never presume to reform others before thou hast well ordred thy self see at home then look abroad redresse that which is faulty and in thy power to amend before thou doest meddle with that which is beyond thy reach be not faire in publike and foule in private hate hypocrisie and avoid vain-glory let not the badge of Religion be the bond of wickednesse receive no opinion in Religion but what the word of God doth evidently warrant see unto the glass of the word by thy own sight without other men● Spectacles and hold what thou judgest truth onely in love of the truth beware of by-respects be not high minded and be not wise in thy own conceit but make thy self equall with them of the lower sort and if it be possible have peace with all men avenge not thy self but give place unto wrath be angry but sin not ow nothing to any man but love put on the new man which after God is created in true holinesse Cast off lying and speak the truth from thy heart let no corrupt communication proceed out of thy mouth work out thy salvation with fear and trembling and give all diligence to make thy Calling and Election sure And consider hadst thou Sampson's haire Milo's strength Scanderbergs arme Solomon's wisdome Absolon's beauty Craesus his wealth Caesar's valour Alexander's spirit Tullies eloquence Gyge's ring Perseus's Pegasus Gorgon's head and Nestor's years yet thou canst have no true content or happiness in this world which is but a maze or labyrinth of errours a desart a wilderness a den of thieves and cheaters nor ever arrive at the port of rest without the two wings of Davids Dove Prayer and Meditation those inseparable twins like those of Hypocrates's which did feed together joy together weep together live together and die together Prayer disposeth our souls to meditation meditation supplieth matter to our prayer both give life and strength the one to the other Meditation prepareth our souls and maketh them fit to receive God Prayer inviteth that glorious guest b th to entertain him and make him pleased to abide in them or to speak more properly Prayer is the speech of the soul unto God and Meditation is as it were the speech of God to the soul both make a familiar conference and conversing between God and the soul In this Treatise thou shalt finde a sweet Dialogue both of Meditation and Prayer the devout soule humbly praying unto God and God graciously answering the soul this is Jacob's his ladder whereupon the Angels of God cease not to ascend with our Petitions and descend with Pardons This is the rod of Aaron with which we may do wonders this is the haire of Sampson wherein lies all the strength of a Christian And this is the Path-way of perfection which will safely bring thee to thy journey's end where are those joyes which neither eye hath seen nor ear heard nor ever entered into the heart of man To which place God of his infinite mercy in Christ bring thee and all Christians which shall ever be the hearty prayer of the greatest of sinners and the least of Saints thy unknown freind in the Lord Athanasius Davies SPARKES OF THE SPIRIT SECT I. Of the holy Scripture LORD The Atheists conviction as thou art full of Majesty and might of command and Authority so dost thou shew thy self no where to be of greater credit and Authority than in thy Word For all other Books and writings to induce the Reader to give credit unto the Authors thereof are full of reasons and arguments and of naturall probations But thy Word good Lord is most plain and absolute declaring simply and absolutely thy will without any further Naturall or Philosophical arguments shewing thereby that it is the Word of such an Author who is to be believed upon his bare word simply and absolutely without any further reasoning For we know dear Lord that thy holy Scriptures differ from all mens writings because they command and controll all Princes Potentates of the world absolutely enjoyning forbidding vice threatning everlasting misery to the wicked and assuring eternal felicity to the godly Therefore Lord we know and believe that the holy Scriptures are thy holy and Sacred Words and thy undoubted books For it belongeth to no creature to be able to inflict eternall punishments or to bestow endless blessedness Therefore those Books that contain threatnings of the one and assurance of the other must needs have none other but thy Majesty for their Author For what creature can or dare say I will judge all men in the day of judgement and I will give unto every man according to his works Who 's of that Authority power as to threaten eternal pains to all men past present to come resisting his will but only thou most mighty God What is he that could say or write That there lights not a Sparrow on the ground without his knowledge and providence That he knoweth all the words deeds and thoughts of all men but onely thou most wise gracious Lord Who could say I will bring a generall deluge upon the earth I will melt the Elements with heat I will rayse up all the dead at the sound of a Trumpet and judge the world but thy Infinite power For if any creature had been the Author of the Scripture he must be either good or evill It was not an evil creature for the words be simply and absolutely good dehorting from all evill and exhorting unto all godlinesse and to the chief good and therefore these words which are contained in the Scripture could not proceed from the nature and inclination of any evill creature Neither could these words properly proceed from the motion and disposition of any good creature because they are spoken in precepts and in commanding manner with great Authority in much power threatening punishment to such as obey it not as eternall happinesse to such as follow it For no good creature would presume to take upon him such power and Authority of himself as to threaten eternall damnation to some and assure eternal salvation unto others which onely is proper to a Divine and Infinite Power and therefore it were intolerable pride and presumption in any creature to take so much Authority upon him being a thing so flat and contrary against the nature and