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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

the time of your dwelling here in fear AS we must give an account of every idle word which we speak so we must give an account of every idle hour which we spend Therefore when we see the glasse run or hear the clock strike or the sun passe in the Diall let us think that there is now another hour come whereof we are to yield a reckoning and so endeavour to sp●nd one hour better than another Sparke 95. O Lord let me rejoyce in thee evermore pray continually and in all things give thanks redeeming the time because the dayes are evill let me passe no minute idlely but while I have the light walk in the light for the night will come wherein I can work no more Sect. XCVI The Merchant's gaine SAint Paul the vessell of honour doth teach that Godliness is great and true gaine Let us therefore seek and search hunger and thirst for this gain Let the love of godlinesse not of money break our sleep possesse our thoughts in the night let us minde it first in the morning and meditate on it most in the day time And as the Merchants for his gaines maketh long voyages hazards life and health sequesters himself from his wife and children So let us for the Kingdom of God indure troubles without terrours within leave wife and children and with a valourous mind passe all the seas and storms of this world and as the covetous Merchant the elder he waxeth the more greedy he is to gather so the elder we are let us make the more carefull provision of faith and good works If we be Merchants let us exchange our commodities for better let us leave our avarice that we may receive content refuse sin that we may receive our Saviour One soul is more precious than the whole world let us then sell the world to save our soules The Kingdome of Heaven is a Pearl that cannot be purchased except we part with all we have If we be merchants let us venture for it Who would not with the poor fisher-men leave an old net to follow Christ Math. 4. Who would not with the woman of Samaria change a cup of well water for the water of the fountain of life Luk. 19. Who would not with Zacheus do away half his goods to obtain a Kingdom Who would not with the penitent thief bestow a broken heart and a short prayer for a Crown of glory Luk. 21. Who would not with the poor widow forgoe a mite to receive a million Who would not with Christ and his holy Martyrs endure the Crosse that he may enjoy the Crown Who would not with the wise men exchange gold frankincense and myrrhe to obtaine Grace truth and mercy Spark 96. O God thou art my God my goods are nothing unto thee Whom have I in heaven but thee and whom shall I desire on earth in comparison of thee O Lord thou did'st with thy bloud arrest heaven for me when thou wast circumcised thou hast paid the whole when thou wast crucified then didst thou take our sins and gavest us thy salvation I am a poor banquerupt I can offer thee nothing that is of worth accept of my mite of devotion my cold water of almes my grain of faith my desire of sorrow my sighes of satisfaction and my purpose to praise thee Alas sweet Jesus I cannot give thee thy own goods to gain my own glory I have nothing left me but the name of Merchant Satan the man of War hath taken away the gold of my faith I have exchanged thy graces for the worlds vanity and I have so long listened to the sirens of my own concupiscence that I have made a shipwrack of all thy blessings Sweet Jesus pardon my doings and pay thou my debts Give me that life which thou hast purchased for me and forgive me that death which I have purchased for my self by my sins Amen Sect. XCVII A Christian Salutation WHen a man first comes to a house we use to say you are welcome when he is parting away God speed you or fare you well when we meet with him on the high way God save you So when we see a man born we may say you are welcome for he is but newly come When we see one under forty God keep you for he is at the best but if past forty God speed you or fare you well for he is going out of the world Sparke 97. Lord I am alwayes going out of the world therefore grant me a prosperous journey and a happy arrivall teach me betimes to take my leave of all and to follow thee let me never look back to the Sodom of sin till I come to the mountain of happy felicity through him and by him who is the way the truth and the life Sect. XCVIII The way to preferment HE that will be joyfull must weep he that will be satisfied must hunger and fast he that will be rich must give and he that will bear rule must obey Sparke 98. Lord give me grace to hunger for thee that I may be filled to weep for my sins that I may be comforted to give that it may be given to me to be mercifull that I may obtaine mercy to obey and be humble that I may be exalted Sect. XCIX The luke-warme Professor HE is like the twilight neither day nor night like the Autumne neither faire nor foule like one sick of an ague one day well another day ill or like the Mary-gold that openeth and shutteth with the sun having on eye towards Sodom and another towards Zoar or like the butterfly on the glasse window that will neither backward nor forward If he puts his hand once to the plough he is presently ready to look back he is but almost a Christian like Agrippa he is one while minded to be fellow-servants with Paul another while resolved to leave him and to follow Demas embracing this present world whose unconstant honour is so offensive and so loathsome to God that he threatens to spew him out of his mouth Rev. 3 16. He is earnest in nothing runs both with the hound and with the hare worships God and Baal weares garments of linnen wollen serves two masters God Mamon he is as well for Romish Babylon as for English Sion he can be con●ent with as many religions as he hath honours and vain affections Whereas one heaven held not Michael and the Dragon in peace nor one house the Arke and Dagon nor one womb Jacob and Esau nor one Temple prayer and merchandizing nor one Camp the clean and leprous nor one Bath John and Cerinthus nor one tongue God and Milchom nor one conscience true Religion and false superstition yet the lukewarme mans heart is a seat for all these and yet not const●nt and z●alous in any of these It is enough with such a one to be outwardly religious I● he hath but a shew and shadow of religion he cares not for the substance

bones do quake for fear yea my sins have taken such hold upon me that I cannot look q Psal 40. up If Mary Magdalen was possessed with seven Devills Lord thou knowest that many Devils do continually walk about not onely to seek to possess but to devour my p 1 Pet. 5.11 soul And though Mary and Martha had cause of grief for the death of their brother whom thou didst restore yet my grief is more John 11. being dead in sin my self desiring to be revived by the spirit of thy Grace Lord as thou didst commit thy Mother the blessed Virgin to the tuition of q Joh. 19. John So dear Father command thy holy a Psal 34.7 Angells to guide and guard me from all evill Grant also sweet Jesus that with the three Maries I may seek thee early in the morning and seeking thee finde thee and finding thee believe in thee and lodge thee in my heart for ever Amen Sect. XXIX To performe Promise needfull IT is an old saying An honest promise is due debt That an honest Promise is due debt I have often promised to serve thee my good God and yet never perform'd the same as I ought and therefore the more I promise except thy grace help me to performe the more I am indebted unto thee Sparke 29. O Lord grant that I may promise unto thee that which thou hast commanded me and after b Deut. 23.21 performe that which I have c Psal 66. promis'd that I may obtain thy promise through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. XXX Of Christ's vertues in healing and Satan's policie in hurting IT is no wonder that the Devill did so much prevail against the Jewes to have Christ tormented in every member A box of precious ointments as his Head with Thornes his Hands and Feet with Nailes his Sides with the Spear his Eyes with Spittings his Face with buffettings and his Taste and Mouth with Gall for the Devill well perceived that there issued out great vertue from every member of Christ For he healed the Leper by touching him with his hand he healed Peter by looking back upon him with his eye he healed Matthew with his mouth by saying come and follow me he healed the deaf and dumb with his fingers by putting them into his ears he healed Mary Magdalen with the vertue that went from his feet when she washed them wi●h her tears he healed the woman diseased with the twelve years issue with the hem of his garment he healed raised up Lazarus out of his grave with his voice sayin● Lazarus come forth he he●l●d all the souls of his children with the blood and water that ran out of his blessed side Spark 30. Heal us O Lord for our bones are b Psal 6. vexed send out thy curing Word and heal our wounded soules that refuse all manner of comforts c Psal 107.19 20. say unto my soul I am thy salvation d Psal 35. O thou pittifull Saviour and sweet Samaritan e Luke 10. leave me not thus wounded and half dead in the high-way of perdition but bind up my wounds and poure therein the oyle of thy everlasting grace through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen Sect. XXXI Of Avarice and Oppression The Worldliings Woe ALbeit every sin calls for eternall vengeance yet we read in Scripture but of four crying sins The First is Murther and Bloodshed f Gen. 4.10 The Second is Gluttony and Idleness or the sin of Sodom g Gen. 18.21 The Third is the sin of Wrong and Oppression h Exod. 3.9 The Fourth is the detaining of the Labourers hire i Jam. 5.4 Now three of these cry with open mouth against the Covetous wretch as against an open Oppressor a secret Defrauder both an open and secret Murtherer Therefore the clamours of many poore Debters in the Dungeon of many poor Labourers in the Field and of many poore Neighbours crying and dying in the street enters into the ears of the Lord of hosts Nay the cry of his owne soul and body will come against him for though he keepeth his pelf with many locks from others yet from none doth he keep them so fast as from himself For though he possesseth them yet hath he no power to use them as holy Records doe shew Eccles 6.1 where the Spirit of God sayeth That there is an evill under the Sun which is much used among men A man to whom God hath given Riches and Treasure and Honour wanteth nothing for his soul of all that it desireth but God giveth him not power to eat thereof but a strange man shall eat it up This is an evill sickness Consider this then thou Worldling that sayest in thy heart I shall never have enough Spark 31. O blessed Trinity that fillest every living thing with thy l Psal 104. blessing Lord blesse us and thy blessings that in using them we abuse not thee O Sacred All sufficient Trinity fill thou our hearts so full that we may desire r Ezech. 36. nothing but thee thy glory our hearts good Lord are made Triangle-wise a fit seat for the blessed Trinity They are made narrow below and shut close to keep out worldly desires and wide and open above to receive all heavenly blessings O Lord as they are thy vessels so let them be of thy filling yea fitted with nothing but with thy self and thy love Psal 10.17 through Jesus Christ our Saviour Amen Sect. XXXII Nothing can satisfie God for our sins but his Son VVHat is that which man can off r unto his Maker The Acceptable Sacrifice to pacifie his wrath ' gainst sins If he cold give the whole world unto God what doth he offer but what he hath received of God and lost by his disobedience If man could offer himself what offereth he but un●hankfulness dust and ashes blasphemy and wickednes which provokes Gods wrath more more If the Angells would offer themselves and their service to satisfie the wrath of the everlasting God what were that but a thing finite in goodness to seek to cover an infi●it evill Therefore God himself was fain to step between his Justice and Mercy to reconcile us again unto him by his own merits Spark 32. O Lord from whence then cometh our help Surely our help cometh of thee f Psal 121. which hast made heaven and earth There was no other water to wa●h away Naaman's leprosie but Jordan's p 2 Kings 5 No ladder that reached up to Heaven but Jacob's q Gen. 28.12 No serpent that healed the Israelites but the brasen k Numb 21 9. So there is no other Name under heaven whereby we may be saved f Acts 4. but only by thy name and merits sweet Jesus O Lord it was not our own arm that helped us b Psal 44.3 4. but thy right hand and thy arm and the light of thy countenance because thou