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The morning exercise methodized
The morning exercise methodized; or Certain chief heads and points of the Christian religion opened and improved in divers sermons, by several ministers of the City of London, in the monthly course of the morning exercise at Giles in the Fields. May 1659.
London: printed by E. M. for Ralph Smith, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. To look to his light; by stirring up the gift of God that was in him.
Timothy must not suffer his gifts to lie sleeping under the ashes; but must blow them up, (as the* word signifieth) into a fire, by study, prayer and exercise.
Timothy must not suffer his gifts to lie sleeping under the ashes; but must blow them up, (as the* word signifieth) into a fire, by study, prayer and execrise.
- *[Greek or Hebrew], ignem sopitum suscitare.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, ignem sopitum suscitare.
2. He calls upon Timothy to look to his zeal, that that may not be extinguished; but that his heat may be equal with his light: And this he doth two ways.