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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

24. as one without hope but rath●r to watch for the day of my redemption and the glorious comming of my saviour to deliver me from thi body of sinne Rm. 9.7 that my vile body may be made like his gl●rious body and that in the mean time whether I sl●ep or wake I may continually hear the sound of thy Trumpe in mine ear saying Arise ye dead and come unto judgement Phil. 3.21 and at last be ravished with the sweet sentence of my Saviour Venite Benedicti c. Sect. XCI The fruitfull Valley I See alwayes the highest hills to be most barren and the low valleys fruitfull therefore the higher I exalt my self like a mountain the more barren I shall be before God And the lower I humble my self the more fruitfull I am to others by good and wholesome examples Sparke 91. O Lord teach me to learn meekness of thee that art meek and to humble my self that I may be exalted Amen Sect XCII The Scorner's Chayre IT is noted for no small disdain in Pharaoh to say Who is the Lord that I should obey him Such as those Okes of Basan and those tall Cedars of Lebanon in the height of their pride as being too wise to be moved with ordinary judgements If we have th● honour to be Gods among men or the power to work mighty things in the world Hab. 1.16 We sacrifice to our owne nets and burne incense to our yarn and say if not in our mouth yet in our heart There is no God Psal 14.1 If our evill counsels have good success and when we rebelliously transgress we prosper in our wickedness we spare not to say Tush Ezek. 9.9 the Lord seeth not If when we multiply sin upon sin and by the cords of vanity draw on the cart-ropes of iniquity and adde thirst unto drunkenness we be not plagued like other men we presume to say Tush Zeph. 1.12 the Lord careth not he will do neither good nor evill If God forbear us we think his hand shortned and if we do not feel his rod we make a question of his power yea the irreligiousnesse of this prophane age is such and growne to that impudency as to dispute of principles and grounds of faith to call not onely God and his holy Word the Scripture but Heaven Hell Angells Devills the Resurrection of the body and the Immortality of the soul into question so that if he will finde any faith among such he had need come with new miracles and more than miracles least our searching wits should finde the reason of them or otherwise conclude them to be but our ignorance of the cause For whatsoever exception either vain Philosophy Exod. 3.2 or prophane Gentility took against the wonderfull works of God in elder times as that the burning and not consuming Bush was but a Meteor 14.12 that the passage of Israel through the Red-Sea upon dry ground 16.15 was but the advantage of an Ebbe-tide that the Manna which God rained in the Wilderness was but the Mildew of the Countrey Josh 6.20 that the fall of the walls of Jerico at the sound of the Trumpets was but an Earth-quake that our Saviour himself did no Miracles but by the help of Belzebub Yea that and worse than that do the scorners and licentious wits of our times object against the power of God to make God and his power either nothing at all or tie him unto second causes as if th● world did run upon the constant wheeles of everlasting motions which is not in his power so much as in the power of a Clock-keeper either to break or to alter Sparke 92. O thou wonderfull and powerfull Essence whose strength is seen in our weakness we beseech thee to give us grace to humble our selves under thy Almighty hands Psal 1.1 that we neither walke in the Counsell of the ungodly stand in the way of sinners 10. nor sit in the seat of the Scornfull 20.9 Arise O Lord God and lift up thy hand forget not the poor put th●m in fear O Lord that the Heathen may know themselves to be but men for the ungodly walk on every side 12.9 when they are exalted the children of men are put to rebuke O Lord thou canst do whatsoever thou wilt both in heaven and earth For heaven is thy seat and the earth is but thy footstool Yea the earth is thine and all that therein is the compass of the world and they that dwell therein O Lord Psal 24.1 by thy Word were the heavens made and all the hosts of them by the breath of thy mouth c Be thou exalted Lord in thine owne strength so shal we sing praise thy power for ever and ever Amen Sect. XCIII The Gospell's Law VVEll might our Saviour say that he came not to destroy but to fulfill the Law For the Gospell of Grace is so far from taking away the obedience of the Law as that it addeth to our obedience and is severe against the affections as the Law against the actions of evill making it theft to covet our N●ighbours goods and murther to be angry with our Brother adultery to look upon a Woman to lust after her Mat. 5.22 Ecl. 12.20 and Treason to curse the King though but in thought 1 Thes 5.22 Esay 2.18 Math. 12. restraining not only from evill but from all appearance of evill condemning not onely the Cart-ropes of sin but the cords of vanity taking a strict account not onely of every wicked but idle word nay our wandring thoughts also Sparke 93. O dear Father thy law is a perfect law converting the soul It is no eye-service that can please thee but thou requirest truth in the inward parts Good Lord as thy Gospel is a new law adding perfection unto perfection So create in me a new heart and put a right spirit within me that my thoughts being undefil'd may please thee my words being seasoned with grace may praise thee and my actions being sanctified by thy spirit and proceeding from the holy motions thereof may glorifie thee To whom be all honour praise and glory for ever Amen Sect. XCIV Vertue is in action GOd infused not the soul of man into a lump or block or such a body as was unfit for motion but into such a body as had legs arms hands feet eys and ears to shew that we must not be idle but work with our hands labour with our feet instruct with our tongues and mark with our eyes Spark 94. Lord let me not be given to idleness but be diligent in my place and painfull in my calling getting my living either by the sweat of my browes or my braines that thou mayest not finde me idle all the day long but working either in thy field or thy vineyard and doing alwayes that which is just and acceptable in thy sight through Jesus Christ Amen Sect. XCV Passe

was a Murtherer but in the turning of a hand when the Viper was shaken off he was counted a god c. 3. v. 12. In Ezra the people wept because they had no Temple but after when the Temple was builded they wept as fast again because the glory of the second was not like the first 3.7 In Exodus the people groan and cry to be deliver'd from the tyranny of Pharaoh and their intolerable troubles 14.11 but the same people again cry out against Moses and Aaron for bringing them from Egypt wishing to be there again In Exod. 20.19 the people intreat that Moses may be their Ruler and Spokes-man but in Numb 16.3 the same people refuse Moses and tax him for an intermedler that taketh too much upon him In Exodus 16.3 the people cry out for bread and having bread from Heaven they gather it greedily as if they should never have enough of it But in Numb 11.6 the same people despise loath the same bread when they had it In 1 Sam. 8.5 the people are very impatient and in a rage because they had not a King But in 1 Sam. 12.19 they are very sorry and much displeased because they sought a King and had him In Matthew on Palme-Sunday the people cried all unto our Saviour Hosanna blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord spreading their garments in the way and cutting downe branches of trees But within a se'night after the same peop●e instead of Hosanna cry out Crucifige and instead of casting their garments in his way they rob him of his garments instead of cutting down branches of trees they hang him upon a tree In the time of Constantius the Father of Constantine the Great the people at the beginning were glad to imbrace the faith of Christ and to offer the Sacrifice of praise unto him but in a little while after the same people in hopes of preferment by the Emperour's favour become very ready and willing to offer Sacrifice unto Devils In the time of Queen Mary there was lamentation and crying out that Idolatry was set up the Church polluted the light obscured and the Gospell taken away But afterward when by the mercy of God the light was restored and the Gospell advanced they murmured cried out as fast again that we had no Church no Ministery that truth was wrapt up in Ceremonies and that all was Popish Antichristian In Acts 19. Demetrius and other subtle heads of the Tradesmen of Ephesus meerly for their own gain raised a great tumult and cried out Great is Diana of the Ephesians But presently the people were carried with such a tempest of fury that the City was all in an uprore and every man run and rushed whither he list in great conf●sion and after much violence offered vers 32. the most-part knew not wherefore they were come together For as a weak feeble brain followeth the waxing and waining of the Moon So the brain-sick humour of many lukewarm Christians is subject and pliable to every change and revolution Like the standing corne that shakes bowes here and there as the winde bloweth or like the weather-cock that turnes with every blast or the Urchin that altereth his door as the winde turneth or like the Amphibia that will play one while upon the land another while upon the water or like the Israelites that spake both Ashdod and Hebrew These are but half Christians neither true Believers nor meer infidells they halt between two opinions sometimes for the Ark and sometimes for Dagen now for Jehovah and presently for Baal Not resolving what Religion to profess or what God to worship Like Tully among the Romanes who could not resolve whether he should take Caesar or Pompey's part or like Tidides amongst the Graecians who could not determine whether he should joyne himself with Achilles or with Hector These men are all for the time and nothing for the truth like Ecebolius who suited his profession to every Emperour's Religion They with one breath call for fire from heaven with the Disciples and say with Peter Master looke to thy self Sparke 106. O Almighty God that art ever immutable and for ever one the same with whom there is no variableness or shadow of change settle my heart in thy truth and knit my soul unto thy Testimonies that I may say as Elizeus said to Elias as the Lord liveth and as thy soul liveth I will not leave thee Give me grace not onely to promise with thy servant Peter but also to performe that though all the world forsake thee yet I may never leave thee but be so linked in affection unto thee the Saviour of our souls and to thy truth that neither tribute nor anguish nor persecution nor famine nor nakedness nor perill nor sword nor death nor life nor Ang●ls nor Principaliti s nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be ever able to separate me from thy love in Jesus Christ But as thou Lord hast made me for thine own self so let my heart be alwayes unquiet while it is from thee Rom. 8.35 and never at quiet till it comes unto thee no more than the needle in the mariner's compasse till it turns to the North star or the Dove till it come to the Arke or the child till it comes to the breast or the bee till it comes to the hi v. But be thou alwayes the center of my soul the circumference of my thoughts the star of my desire the arke of my content the loadstone of my love the breast of my comfort and the lodge of my affections that I may ever believe in thee without wavering professe thee without fearing serve thee without diss●mbling and love thee and thy word perfectly purely and perpetually through Jesus Christ my Saviour and redeemer Amen THE END