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A96681	Fax fonte accensa, fire out of water: or, An endeavour to kindle devotion, from the consideration of the fountains God hath made Designed for the benefit of those who use the waters of Tunbridg-Wells, the Bath, Epsom, Scarborough, Chigwell, Astrop, Northall, &c. Two sermons preached at New Chappel by Tunbridg-Wells. With devout meditations of Cardinal Bellarmin upon fountains of waters. Also some form of meditations, prayers, and thanksgivings, suited to the occasion. By Anthony Walker, D.D.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621. Selections, English, 1684.	1685 (1685)	Wing W302A; ESTC R230546	55,606	206

of baptized ones this dyes them of a deeper Purple than those of Tyre and Sidon Sodom and Gomorrah These mineral Waters may by many things put to them lose both their Taste and Virtue in the Chymist Phrase be precipitated that tho they are drunk they neither heal nor help Every deliberate and wilful Sin desecrates the Waters which were consecrated to the mystical washing away of Sin Precipitates baptismal Waters that their Virtue subsides and sinks to the bottom of the Font that tho they still may wet they will not wash though they may be sprinkled they will not cleanse How unpardonable an Affront would it be to this honourable Company if any should be so impudently rude or wicked as to pollute or poison these Wells we come to drink of What is it then to abuse that Blood of sprinkling by which we were sanctified and to do despite to that Spirit of Grace which over-shadows these sacred Waters An involuntary innocent staining of the Font hath branded an imperial Name in all succeeding Ages Leo Coproninus The casting of a dead Dog into a Well which was the only supply for the Garrison which kept it lost one of the strongest and most impregnable Forts Stetguard Our voluntary sinning after and against our Baptism poisons the very Font casts a dead Dog into the Well of Grace nay is an actual surrender into his Hands whom we have renounced and should stand in defiance of for ever I beseech you I adjure you therefore worship that God which made the Font of your Baptism by a sound believing of the good Promises he made to you and making good the Promises you there made to him for as there is no greater cause of the decay of Christian Piety than the not understanding or forgetting our Baptismal Covenant and the indispensable Obligation it brings us under to Faith Repentance and unreserved new Obedience so there is no Remedy more likely to retrieve its Honour and to restore the power of it in the World than a daily serious remembring of it and hearty desire and study to live up to it 5. If we must worship him love serve adore him that made the Fountains and made the Font how much more him that made the Source and Spring of that very Fountain that Fountain opened for Sin and for Vncleanness Zech. 13.1 the Blood the Spirit of Christ When Longinus as Tradition names him with that accursed Spear pierced the Side and Heart of our most blessed Lord yet hanging on that more accursed Tree forthwith there came out Blood and Water John 19.34 The Church hath always reckon'd these the vital Springs of the Health-giving Sacraments Christ calls himself the living Water John 4. and he calls the Spirit by the same Name John 7.38 39. He that believes in me out of his Belly shall flow Rivers of living Water this spake he of the Spirit And 't is agreeable to his Father's Language Psal 44.3 I will pour Water upon him that is thirsty and Floods upon the dry Ground I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed Isa 44.3 If the love of God in giving his Son be set forth so emphatically with an ἑςτως God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son so freely so fully so inconceivably as no Tongue can express as no Heart can conceive with what Fervours of Love and Thankfulness should we receive it and return it 6. Worship him that is not only the Maker of the Fountains but the very Fountain of all things ὁ ῶν the Fountain of living Waters Jer. 2.13 The Fountain of our Being in whom we live and move and have our Being and for whom as well as by whom we were all made God made us all to worship himself for he made the World to manifest his Glory that he might be known to be and to be such as indeed he is and have the Glory of being such and to give him that Glory which is peculiar to intelligent Natures is properly to worship him And the Fountain of all our Temporal Spiritual and Eternal Mercies present future all we have and all we hope for Nay the Fountain of the very Deity as the Schools call God the Father Fontem Dietatis who communicates the Divine Nature to the Son and Holy Ghost as Light and Heat flow from the Body of the Sun tho they abide in it and be one with it Lastly If all must worship him that made the Fountains Then they especially who have built him an House for his Worship at these famous Fountains And it will be little better then a mocking of him to erect him an House for his Worship and to neglect that Worship for which it was erected And tho I am very far from imposing Laws or prescribing Rules to this Honourable Assembly yet give me leave with that modest freedom which becomes my Office to remind you of somewhat at least very unseemly and which I charitably hope proceeds solely or chiefly from want of Consideration You exactly understand all the Punctilio's of Honour all the Measures of what is Decent Just and Fit Let me therefore appeal to you what Respect what Deference is due to God who is and calls himself a Great King How comely it would be or rather how uncomely 't is to do the contrary not to continue your Gaming upon the very spot in time of Publick Prayer I beseech you if you will not joyn with us in our solemn Worship yet modestly forbear to affront it and Him to whom we pay it Give me leave to conclude with one more humble Motion 'T is an express Branch of Divine Worship to build God an House 't will be no less to indow it now 't is built An easy Liberality from New comers who find a Chappel ready prepar'd by our Charge and Care not excluding the pious Charity of those who have already given to its building may settle a decent Maintenance for an Able Minister constantly to offioiate in it and preach to the Neighbouring Inhabitants all the Year 'T is a certainly desolate place in the depth of Winter still notwithstanding the many fair Houses which are lately built And the badness of the Ways and distance of the Churches I fear occasions in many too great a neglect of God's Worship and their own Souls Had they an Able Minister to reside constantly among them the Wo of dwelling in this Mesech would be much abated and these Deserts would become a Mount Sion and these Tents of Kedar like the Curtains of Solomon an Emblem of Jerusalem We of the Clergy who come hither for preservation or recovery of Health give you our Labors freely tho we have no cause to be asham'd of what we gave to the Erection of the Place we labour in And you may the better bear with us while in the behalf of them that serve us here we plead with you to leave a Blessing behind you That as God hath endow'd these Wells with lasting

Streams and Virtues you would endow this House built to his Name so near them that the Waters of the Sanctuary may flow from hence with a constant Perennity like to the Waters of these Wells and with an Healthfulness to the Souls of those that dwell here which may equal or exceed the Usefulness of the Waters to the Bodies of us Strangers who come hither to drink them And now Oh thou most glorious Lord who hast made the Fountains of Waters and thereby manifested forth thy Almighty Power thy unsearchable Wisdom and inexhaustible Goodness which render thee a most sutable Object of all possible Adoration Love and Service Accept we beseech thee the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving and Praise which we offer to thee from the Altar of an humble Heart for making of these Fountains and making known and continuing their useful Virtues and for blessing them to any of us And we further bless thy glorious Name who art the Fountain of Living Waters and in whom are all our Springs for all the Streams of Mercy that flow from thee especially for thy Son and thy Spirit thy Word and thy Sacraments and that sutable Portion of it we have now been made partakers of Beseeching thee so to write in our Hearts by the Finger of thy Spirit what we have heard with our outward Ears that it may bring forth in us the Fruit of good Living to the Glory of thy holy Name the good Example of our fellow Christians the present Comfort and the eternal Salvation of our precious Souls through Jesus Christ our dearest Lord To whom with thy Majesty and eternal Spirit be rendred as is most due all Honour Love Thanksgiving Praise and Adoration now and for evermore Amen FINIS Devout Meditations of Cardinal Bellarmine made English Of the Consideration of the Waters and chiefly of Fountains CHAP. I. THE Water holds the second place amongst the Elements of this World and if that be rightly look'd upon a step may be made of it to assist the Heart's Ascent to God And if we will premise a general Consideration of Water then draw out of the Fountains a special Ascent to God Water is moist and cold and from hence it hath these five Properties For 1. It washeth and cleanseth away Spots and Defilements 2. It quencheth Fire 3. It cools and slakes the heat of Thirst 4. It joyns into one many and different things Lastly So low as it descends so high it will ascend again All which are manifest Symbols and Foot-steps of that God who is the maker of all things 1. Water washeth off bodily Stains God washeth off those that are spiritual Thou shalt wash me saith David and I shall be whiter than Snow Psal 51.7 For altho Contrition Sacraments Priests Alms-deeds do wash away Sins which are the Stains of the Heart All these are but Instruments and Dispositions He that is the Author of this washing is God alone I even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for mine own sake saith God by Isaiah Chap. 43.25 And therefore the Pharisees murmuring against Christ said Who can forgive Sins but God only Luke 7. 49. And they were not mistaken in ascribing unto God only the supream Power of forgiving Sins But in that that they believ'd not Christ to be 〈◊〉 God and so blasphem'd and spake Truth in the same breath Neither doth God only like Water wash away Spots but will also be called by the Name of Water John 7.38 He that believeth on me as the Scripture hath said out of his Belly shall flow Rivers of living Water But this spake he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified Therefore the holy Spirit which is very God is living Water And of this Water speaks Ezekiel Chap. 36.25 I will sprinkle clean Water upon you and ye shall be clean from all your Filthiness and from your Idols will I cleanse you And because this celestial and uncreated Water far excels the Virtues of this terrestrial and created Water we will take notice of three Differences betwixt the washing of created and uncreated Water First That which is created washeth the Bodies Spots but not all for many it cannot get out unless it be help'd by Soap and other Instruments but uncreated Water washeth out throughly all kind of Spots for in the fore-cited place 't is said You shall be clean from all your Filthiness Secondly Created Water rarely washeth Spots so clean away as to leave no Marks or Shadows of them But uncreated Water washeth so that what is washed with it is whiter and fairer then it was before it was defiled Thou shalt wash me saith David and I shall be whiter than Snow And the Lord himself saith by Isaiah Chap. 1.18 Tho your Sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow tho they be red like Crimson they shall be as Wooll Lastly Created Water washeth away natural Spots which resist not him that washeth them But uncreated Water washeth away voluntary Spots which cannot be rinsed off unless the Soul be willing and spontaneously consent to him that rinseth it But so great and admirable is the Virtue of this Water that it sweetly penetrates hearts of Stone and is resisted by no hard Heart because it makes it not to resist as St. Augustin rightly observes Lib. de Praed SS cap. 8. Who can understand O Lord with how admirable Methods thou breathest Faith into the Hearts of the Unbelievers and pourest Humility in-the Heats of the proud and instillest Love into the Hearts of thy Enemies that he who a little before breathing Threatnings and Slaughter did persecute thee in thy Disciples being suddenly chang'd did willingly bear the Threats and Violences of the Persecutors for thee and for thy Church It is too much for me to search into thy Secrets and I had rather know the efficacy of thy Grace by sweet Experience than by search and because I know this Water of thine to be a voluntary Shower design'd for thine own Heritage as thy Prophet singS therefore I most humbly and submissly beg that I may be found in thine Inheritance and it may please thy Grace to descend into the Earth of my Heart that it continue not towards thee like Earth without Water dry and barren as 't is of it self being not sufficient so much as to think the least that 's good But let 's us proceed CHAP. II. VVAter quencheth Fire and that heavenly Water viz. the Grace of the holy Spirit in an admirable way and manner quencheth the Fire of carnal Lusts 'T is true Fastings and corporal Mortifications do much avail to quench this Burning but provided they be used as Instruments of the Grace of the Holy Ghost otherwise of themselves alone they signifie but very little For Love is the principal of the Affections and Passions of the Mind that governs them all and all obey it Love will not be

forc'd and if it be stopt of one side it will find Passage in another Love fears nothing dares all things conquereth all things thinks nothing hard or impossible to it self Lastly a lesser Love will yield to none but to that Love that 's greater and more mighty so carnal Love whether it pursue the Riches or Delights of the World will only yield unto the Love of God As soon as the Water of the holy Spirit begins to drop into the Heart of any Man forthwith carnal Love begins to wax cold Blessed Augustine may be our Witness who being accustomed to indulge his Lust and held it impossible for him to live without a Female Consort yet when he began to taste the Grace of the holy Spirit cry'd out in the ninth Book of his Confessions How sweet did it presently become to me to want the Suavities of Trifles and the loss of those that were my greatest Fear now was my Joy to be rid off for thou didst cast them out who art thy self the true and highest Sweetness thou didst cast them out and didst thy self enter in their stead who art sweeter than all Pleasure but not to Flesh and Blood brighter than all Light but more inward than any Secret higher than all Honour but not to the high-minded CHAP. III. FUrther Water slakes the Thirst and nothing but this heavenly Water can put an end to the various most troublesome and almost infinite desires of the Hearts of Men. So Truth it self speaking to the Samaritan Woman hath taught us John 4.13 Whosoever drinketh of this Water shall thirst again but whosoever shall drink of the Water that I shall give him shall never thirst And the case is plainly this The Eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the Ear filled with hearing Eccles 1.8 What ever can be offered to a Man cannot satiate his desire seeing he is capable of infinite Good and all created things are finite but he that begins to drink of celestial Water in which are comprehended all things desires nothing seeks for nothing more CHAP. IV. WAter conjoyns and brings into one the things that seem impossible to be united So many Grains of Bread-Corn by mixture of Water are made one Loaf and of many Particles of Earth by adding Water to them Bricks are made but much more easily and indissolubly the Water of the holy Spirit causeth many Men to become one Heart and one Soul as is spoken in the Acts of the Apostles Chap. 4.22 of the first Christians on whom the Holy Ghost had immediately before descended And our Lord when going to his Father both commended and foretold this Unity which the Water of the holy Spirit maketh when he saith John 17.20 Neither pray I for these alone but for them also that shall believe on me through their Word that they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us And a little after that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one To which Unity also the Apostle exhorts in his Epistle to the Ephesians Chap. 4.3 Endeavouring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace There is one Body and one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your Calling O happy Union which makes many Men to be one Body of Christ which is govern'd by one Head and eats of one Bread and drinks of one Cup and lives of one Spirit and cleaving to God is made one Spirit with him What can a Servant more desire than that he should not only be made partaker of all his Lord's Goods but also by the indissoluble Bond of Love be made one with him his almighty and most wise and most beautiful Lord But all this does the Grace of the holy Spirit effect as living and enlivening Water when it is devoutly received in the Heart and preserv'd with all Diligence and sollicitous Care CHAP. V. LAstly Water ascends so high as it descends from above and because the holy Spirit comes down from the highest Heaven upon Earth therefore in that Man in whose Heart he is receiv'd he becomes a Fountain of Water springing up into Eternal Life as our Lord speaks to the Woman of Samaria that is to say a Man born again of Water and the holy Spirit and hath the same Spirit dwelling in his Heart lifts up thither the Fruits of his Grace from whence that Grace descended therefore O my Soul being taught and excited by these Words of Scripture say to thy Father again and again with groanings that cannot be utter'd Give me this Water which may scour off all my Spots which may quench the heat of Concupiscence which may satisfy all Thirst and all Desires which may make thee one Spirit with thy God which may become in thee a Well of Water springing up to eternal Life that thou mayest send thy Services thither before where thou hopest thy self to abide to endless Ages Not without cause did the Son of God say You being evil know how to give good Gifts to your Children how much more shall your Father in Heaven give his good Spirit to them that ask it And he said not will give Bread or Raiment or Wisdom or Charity or the Kingdom of Heaven or eternal Life but he said will give his good Spirit because in that all things are contain'd Thou therefore cease not daily to mind the Father of his Son's Promise and to say with mighty Affection and an undoubted hope of obtaining O holy Father not in confidence of mine own Righteousness but trusting in the Promise of thine only begotten Son do I pour out my Prayers to thee 'T was he that said to us How much more shall your Father give his good Spirit to them that ask him assuredly thy Son which is Truth it self cannot deceive therefore fulfil the Promise of thy Son who glorified thee upon Earth being every where obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross give thy holy Spirit to me who ask it give me the Spirit of thy Fear and Love that thy Servant may fear nothing but to offend thee and may love nothing besides thee and his Neighbour in thee Create in me a clean Heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me Cast me not away from thy Presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me Restore unto me the Joy of thy Salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit Psal 51.10 11 12. CHAP. VI. I Come now to the Similitude the Fountains of Water have with God for from hence the Mind may be raised up to the Contemplation of the truly wonderful and excellent Perfections of him that made them For not without just cause is God in holy Scripture called The Fountain of Life and the Fountain of Wisdom and Fountain of living Water Psal 35. Eccles 1. Jer. 2.13 And that he is the very Fountain of being

nor any Inconvenience to us but prove useful and beneficial to us for the continuance restauration and confirmation of Health to our frail Bodies And as we beg thy leave to use thy Grace to use aright and thy Blessing upon the use of these Waters of the nether Springs So with humble earnestness we beg that the Waters of the Sanctuary which flow from the Throne of the Lamb of God the promised Floods of thy holy Spirit may be plentifully poured forth upon us to refresh to satisfie to cleanse to heal our parched weary and polluted Souls that so both with our Bodies and our Spirits which thou hast made by thy Power and bought with the price of thy Son's Blood we may glorify Thee our great Creator and gracious Redeemer for ever Amen II. O most holy Lord God who tho Thou art most merciful in providing relieving Remedies for thy Creatures yet art most jealous of thy Glory and expectest to be owned and acknowledged in all the Works of thy Power and Goodness to the Sons of Men. We pray thee raise up our Hearts by these Waters and beyond the Virtues of them to thy Self whose Providence hath made them what they are And as we abhor that gross Idolatry of worshipping the likeness of any thing that is in the Waters under the Earth So we pray thee preserve us from a more refined but not less criminal Idolatry of placing our Confidence in their Qualities and Virtues and forgetting Thee the Maker of them lest we provoke Thee to withdraw the Blessing we expect and inflict the Curse we have cause to fear and to make them the Instruments of thy Vengeance because we made them the Objects of our Trust and Occasions of thy Jealousie Grant this O Lord for Christ his sake Amen III. O most gracious God who delightest in Mercy and pardonest Iniquity Transgression and Sin We thy poor sinful Creatures humbly cast down our selves before thee begging the Forgiveness of our Offences which may justly cause thee to with-hold good things from us yea to turn our Blessings into Curses that what is made for the good of others might become to us a Snare and occasion of falling But we beseech thee deal not with us according to our deserts but bless to us the use of these Waters that we may receive those Benefits by them for which we may have great cause to honour love and serve thee for ever And we pray thee give us good Hearts to do accordingly for thy Mercy sake Amen IV. O Lord who art the Fountain of living Waters we confess with shame we have forsaken Thee and have hewen out to our selves empty and broken Cisterns which can hold no Water for which it might be just with thee to forsake and cast us off for ever But good Lord convince us of this Folly pardon and turn us from it Do us good by these Wells we daily see and taste of and open our Eyes as thou didst the Eyes of Hagar to see those Wells of Salvation which are hid from all but those to whom thou art pleased to shew them and help us with joy to draw from thence what may so suffice and satisfie us that we may thirst no more Amen V. Almighty God the Fountain of all Goodness we reade that thy Manna relisht agreeably and pleased the various Palats of all that ate it O that these Waters may profit every person that drinks of them how different so ever the Distempers are for which they drink them That thy Wisdom and Power may more signally appear by thy producing such various Effects from one and the same single Cause And help us all who drink of one Well to be knit together in the Bond of true Christian Charity and to praise thee for the Mercies thou bestowest on our selves and for the Mercies thou vouchsafest unto others as heartily as for our own for Christ his sake who is our common Head Amen VI. O most blessed Lord God who givest thy Blessings and alone canst bless thy Gifts We beseech thee remove thy Curse which our Sins have deserved from us from all our Injoyments and particularly from these Waters we are gathered hither to make use of and let thy Blessing so accompany and follow our drinking of them that we may be both obliged and inabled to praise thy Name through Christ our Lord. Amen VII O most gracious God who hast made a gracious Promise that all things shall work for the good of them that love thee ingraft in our Hearts such love to thy Name as may intitle us to this good Promise And altho we have forfeited our present Comforts and future Expectations of Good yet take not the Forfeitures we have made but crown with continual Patience thy former Bounty and add new Favours and suffer none of us where and while we seek for help and Ease and Health and Life to meet with Pain or Sorrow Sickness Death and Judgment But by by these Waters heal our Diseases and by a better Fountain purge away and pardon all our Sins through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Mediator Amen VIII O Lord our God who art the inexhaustible Fountain of all both spiritual and temporal good things for our Souls and for our Bodies we lift up our Hearts and Hands to Thee in Heaven for a merciful Supply of all our inward and outward Wants and that Thou wouldst sanctify and bless to us all those Supplies thy Goodness doth vouchsafe us both for our Souls and Bodies whether for Meat or Medicine and particularly these Waters that they may do us much good and no hurt and for all the benefits we receive from Thee we pray thee inable us to render to Thee such returns of Service Love and Thankfulness as Thou mayest expect and wilt accept through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen IX O most mighty God who makest the Fountains of Waters those in the Fields and Deserts as Thou art the God of Nature and that in thy Church the Fountain of our Baptism as Thou art the God of Grace We most humbly beseech Thee baptize us with the Holy Ghost and let it be the constant study of our lives to keep the Covenant we made with Thee in our Baptism and to exemplify it by such a Conversation as becomes the Gospel receiving by Faith the good Promises thou hast made to us and making good with faithfulness the Promises we then made to Thee to thy Glory the good example of all our fellow-Christians and the Comfort and Salvation of our Souls by Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen X. O most merciful Lord God who hast opened a Fountain for Sin and for Uncleanness in the Side in the Heart of thy own dear Son whom Thou sentest into this World to save his People from their Sins from all their Sins and all that is in Sin O let nothing be in vain to our Souls of all that he hath done or suffered instituted or ordained for his Peoples good

all those Drops with all the Sands of these sandy Desarts would not equal the Years of that Eternity to which O my Soul thou hastenest so fast These rich Wells are in a low Valley surrounded with high sandy dry and barren Hills The meek and lowly God will inrich with his Grace He resists the Proud and gives Grace to the Humble The method of our Water-drinking is instructive We begin with fewer Glasses and rise gradually till we arrive at a due Proportion this we should imitate We must grow in Grace go from Strength to Strength The way of the Just is as the Morning-Light which shineth more and more unto the perfect Day A Christian should know no Period but Perfection He that thinks he hath Grace enough may thereby be convinced he hath too little When we are going off we then decrease our Number this we must avoid 't is bad to stand at a stay for not to go forward is to go backward in the things of God But to decline sadly forebodes our final going off That Question of our Lord Where are the nine was a cutting and upbraiding one Ten were healed and but one among them was found thankful How mean and despicable soever I am Lord make me truly humble and thankful 'T is better to be a grateful Samaritan than a graceless Israelite Lord bless these Waters to us Lord give us leave to use them And Lord give us both Cause and Hearts to be thankful for them O thou maker of the Fountains make these useful to us all who drink of them Lord give us to drink plenteously of the Wells of Salvation O Lord who givest these Waters without our asking We humbly ask thy Blessing upon the use of them O thou Fountain of Living Waters evermore give us of those Streams which flow from thee Give us this day our daily Bread whatever is needful for Health or Strength whether Food or Physick Impregnate these Waters O Lord with thine own Goodness Lord let us have the use of these Waters by thy Leave and a Blessing upon them by thy Love Lord suffer us not to provoke thee to Anger where we come to seek Relief from thee O Lamb of God from under whose Throne flow Living Waters wash away our Sins by those Waters O thou Son of God who wast with thy Father when as yet there were no created Fountains abounding with Water Manifest that Love to me which flows from the eternal Fountain of free Grace and that Love wherewith thou lovedst thine before the World was Lord remove that Curse our Sins have deserved these Waters should be imbittered by and sweeten them with Blessings we neither have nor can deserve from thee Good Lord help us to improve for thee all the Mercies we here or elsewhere receive or hope for from thee Ejaculatory Praises BLessed be the Maker of these Fountains for all that Power Wisdom Goodness manifested in the making of them Blessed be God for any Blessing now or formerly received by them O thou Fountain of Goodness who art Good and dost Good we praise thee for all the Good thou ever didst for any by these Good Fountains O that we could praise thee as thankfully as thou givest these Waters freely Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me bless his holy Name Bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his Benefits who forgiveth all thy Sins and healeth all thy Diseases O all ye Works of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever O ye Tunbridg-Wells bless ye the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever O let all who ever received Benefit by the Waters of these Wells bless the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever O my Soul bless thou the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever Blessed be God for all the natural and supernatural Fountains he hath made as the God of Nature as the God of Grace Blessed be God for making us and blessed be God for making all things for us blessed be God for Springs of Common Water and of Mineral Waters for the Fountain of free Grace and for the Covenant of Grace for his Son and for his Spirit for his Word and for his Sacraments for all the means of Grace and hopes of Glory Amen FINIS Books lately printed for Nathaniel Ranew at the King's-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard THE Works of Josephus with great Diligence revised and amended according to the excellent French Translation of Monsieur D'ANDILLY Also the Embassy of Philo Judaeus to the Emperor Caligula with the References of Scripture a Map of the Holy Land and divers other Copper Plates The Principles of Christian Religion with a large Body of Divinity methodically and familiarly handled by way of Question and Answer for the use of Families together with Immanuel or the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God By the most Reverend James Vsher late Arch-bishop of Armagh to which is now added in this seventh Edition twenty Sermons preach'd at Oxford before the King and elsewhere with the Life of the Author and an Alphabetical Table never before extant Redemption of Time the Duty and Wisdom of Christians in evil Days Or A Practical Discourse shewing what special Opportunities ought to be redeemed what Mispences of Time are to be avoided with convincing Reasons quickening Motives and proper Directions for the right Improvement of precious Time By John Wade Minister of Hammersmith

Superstructure to be next erected and built upon it when and where the Foundation of it his Fear is laid and well settled Glory is Excellency manifested And to give God Glory is to acknowledg the excellent Perfections of his Nature with Affections and Actions sutable to those acknowledged Perfections and to praise him for them Now both because this is expresly call'd the everlasting Gospel which is the glad Tidings of Salvation to lost Mankind by Jesus Christ which the Angel that is the Ministers of the Gospel was to preach and also because the Light of the Knowledg of the Glory of God shines in the Face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4.6 that is the Gospel and is therein most clearly manifested We give Glory to God most eminently most acceptably by believing and obeying the Gospel That 's the true Tabernacle in which his Glory dwells in the World He hath made all his Glory pass before him in the Accomplishment of Mans Salvation by his Son's Mediation which he strives with us by his Spirit to perswade and draw us to accept and improve Herein he hath gloriously displayed his unsearchable Wisdom his infinite Power the inexhaustible Treasuries of his Grace and Mercy and the Immutability of his Truth and Faithfulness which cannot shrink or shake but stands faster than the ancient Hills And we then give him the Glory he expects when by obeying the Gospel we openly profess that we esteem him to be such as the Gospel hath declared him to be so wise so great so good so true as he is worthy to be acknowledged for what he hath done for us in and by the Gospel of his Son 3. The third degree or step in the injoyned Duty is And worship him which made the Heavens and the Earth and the Sea and the Fountains of Water In this third Branch he calls the World from their Superstitions to the Worship of the only true God of whom he gives a most August Description by his incommunicable Works and excludes and shuts out all Competitors from being worshipped who cannot shew their Title to it by such stupendous Works as these And as in the first he laid the Foundation and in the second raised the Superstructure so in this third he secures its standing Nothing so much threatning the over-throw and ruine of God's Glory as giving religious Worship to any thing that by nature is not God But our present Concern and Business permits me not to grasp at the whole of this Angelick Sermon nor allows me to enquire into the scope and give the Explication of the whole Prophetick Scene but confines me to the third Branch and even in that excludes a great part of the Periphrasis by which he who may and must be worshipped is described that is He that made the Heaven Earth and Sea which is a Character of the true God so proper so peculiar so exclusive of all Competitors so intelligible so awful and affecting that we meet with it every where most frequently in holy Writ in the Law the Prophets the Psalms and the New Testament But my own choice and design and I suppose your Expectation limits me to the last Syllable of this glorious Name The Fountains of Waters which when I have joyn'd to the preceptive Words in the beginning by an innocent omission of the intermediate comes to this Worship him that made the Fountains of Waters In which Words we have three Particulars to be observed 1. A Description of the Object of Religious Adoration which may and which must be worshipped Him that made the Fountains of Waters 2. An imply'd Reason of the requiring us to give such Worship to him Because he made the Fountains of Waters 3. An actual injoyning the Payment of this Homage to him under that Notion and upon that account Worship him who made the Fountains and do it for that reason because he made them Now for the clearer understanding and more useful improvement of these Particulars and to demonstrate the argumentative force of this Reason that he who made the Fountains must therefore be worshipped I shall reduce all I have to speak to them to this easy method I. To enquire what is the sole Object adequate Reason and right Notion of Religious Worship II. Who made and in a short Digression how he made the Fountains III. Why the Angel propounds him to be worshipp'd under this Notion Maker of the Fountains and how it may appear that this is a good and sufficient Reason to oblige us to it IV. Draw practical Inferences from the whole proper to us at this Place and Time I begin with the first Inquiry concerning the Object Reason and right Notion of Religious Worship The true God is the sole Object of Religious Worship Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve And the adequate reason of his Worship is because he is God that is a Being absolutely perfect which is the best Notion of God A Being which hath infinite Wisdom Power Goodness and full Authority and Dominion over us Alsufficient Ability and most gracious Willingness to help us And there are as many Reasons for his Worship as there are Proofs and Manifestations of these his adorable Perfections either in the Works of Creation and Providence as he is God of Nature or in the Work of Redemption by the Renovation and Salvation of Sinners as he is the God of all Grace Now tho I do not equallize these Reasons and affirm all of them to be of the same Evidence and Cogency Yet I say whatever Works of Nature or of Grace manifest these and the like adorable Perfections to be in him render him for that reason a suitable Object of Adoration and bind us to perform it to him Now the Worship we owe and must pay him is sometimes taken largely for the whole of true Religion by which we expect Salvation In colendo rectè Deo una salus est St. Augustin Our whole Salvation depends upon our right worshipping of God And again To love God with all our Heart and Soul and Strength and to commend God as much as possibly we can to the Love of our Neighbour Hic est Dei cultus haec vera Religio haec recta Pietas haec tantùm Deo debita Servitus De Civ Dei lib. 5. c. 4. This is God's Worship this is true Religion this is right Godliness this is the only Service due to God So that to worship God is to be truly godly and sincerely religious good in good earnest and to pay him all the Service our holy Religion exacts from us towards him But secondly The Notion of Worship is more confined and restrained and is either internal or external 1. Internal again is either the Act of the Mind Reason and Judgment Or of the Heart Soul Will and Affections In the first respect as it is an Act of our Reason Mind and Understanding it implies our knowing and acknowledging his Superiority and full

to needful Reproofs would be as if a Chirurgion should invenom the point of his Lancet or Edge of his Incision-knife and thereby add a throbbing Anguish a vexing Torment and deadly Inflammation to the unavoidable but safe and beneficial smart to which the Patient would be perswaded to submit with Willingness in hope of Cure I can sincerely say I honour your Persons and love your Souls and would not displease you lest I thereby hinder your profiting by my Intreaties or Advice I beseech you therefore yea I again and again beseech you let not the most guilty the most criminal Offender think himself reproach'd while I reprove the Sin of common Swearing the too frequent noise of which greatly abates the innocent Pleasures of this Place and Season 'T is the direct Antithesis to the Worship we are required to give Him that made the Fountains 't is a casting off his Fear 't is a trampling his Glory under foot 't is a rendring his great his holy his adorable Name vile and contemptible cheap and base a low a common thing I hope I may without Offence profess that I cannot but pitty the Errors of their Education who esteem it a piece of good Breeding to blaspheme the Name of God and account it the most ornamental and graceful Accomplishment of their Language with a graceless Fool-hardiness to dare him to his Face to damn them If you believe there is a God and who hath the Patience to be esteem'd an Atheist and that he is a God indeed a Being absolutely perfect infinitely great and good omniscient holy just and true you may take his word He will not hold him guiltless that takes his Name in vain And I assure you 't is much wiser and safer to believe in time then to find to Eternity how fearful a thing it is to fall into the Hands of the everlasting God As for my self and I am confident in this I speak the joint Sense of my Brethren in the same sacred Order I speak it freely He desecrates his Sacerdotal Character and is unworthy to be a Priest in our holy Church who is so unfaithful and unkind as not to mind them of their Failings who in this kind sin through Inadvertency and Weakness or so cowardly as through want of Zeal for God and love to his Brother dares not admonish them who thus sin in an affected Contempt of God and Religion It was the custom of the Jews to rend their Garments when they heard the Name of the holy blessed God blasphemed And for us of the Clergy we deserve no pity if it rend not our Hearts to hear the sacred Name of God so vilely rent in pieces tho our Gowns were rent from off our Backs But I hasten to the positive Inferences 1. If we must worship Him that made the Fountains Then by parity of Reason let us learn to inforce upon our selves a due an awful Sense of God from every Creature in the making of which he hath manifested forth his glorious his adorable Perfections God's Name is written on them all Praesentemque Deum quaelibet herba refert This Universe is a great Volume and every Creature is a Letter in it as in their orderly Conjunction you may spell and read his adorable Excellencies compleatly and at large so every single Letter hath its Signification and Sound But as in the Alphabet some are Vowels sound singly and give a sound to others so in the Book of Nature some of God's Works are Vowels very vocal such as the Heaven the Earth the Sea and the Fountains worship him love and admire him in the least for God is Magnus in minimis great in the least that he hath made Digitus Dei may be seen in them But 2. Worship him more signally for making the Fountains Psal 104.1 David stirs up himself Bless the Lord O my Soul and then he gives the Reasons why and a principal one is laid down Vers 10. Because he sends the Springs into the Valleys Psal 95. which the Church hath wisely chosen as a Preface to our Publick Worship every Morning Vers 1. O come let us sing unto the Lord let us heartily rejoice in the Strength of our Salvation Vers 4. Because in his Hands are the deep places of the Earth Vers 5. The Sea is his and he made it and the Fountains of it Vers 6. O come let us therefore worship and fall down before his Foot-stool 3. Then him that made the extraordinary Fountains for Medicine for Health shall so much Power Wisdom Goodness shine forth in them and we be blind and not observe them or dumb and not express a deep and grateful sense of them O that a blessed God would superadd one healing Vertue more unto them a Power to cure the Indevotion of our too little thankful Hearts Shall they be counted worthy so great Expence of Travel Time and Money and not be worthy our thankful Praises Love and Service O thou that madest these Wells and hast opened the flinty Rocks so that Streams have issued out open our stony Hearts that sweetest Streams of Love of Praise and Adoration may flow from thence and never be dried up 4. If he must be worship'd that made the Fountains in the Fields and Desarts how much more he that made those in the Garden in the Paradise of God I mean his Church We call that sacred Vessel where the Covenant of Christianity was seal'd 'twixt God and us the Font. He makes the other as the God of Nature but the Fountain of our Baptism is signally made by him as the God of Grace 'T was he that sent St. John Baptist to baptize with Water John 1.33 And his blessed Son the holy Jesus after he was risen from the Dead and entred into his state of Exaltation gave Commission and Command to his Disciples to baptize all Nations in the Name of the Father Son and Holy-Ghost Our Baptism is a most solemn Primitive Act of Worship and Primitive Acts are ingaging Acts. 'T is as the boaring of our Ear at the door-post of God's House to shew that we must serve him for ever We therein receive the mark of the Lamb of God on our Fore-heads and on our Right-hands 't is the very Badg and Cognizance of the Worshippers of the true God through Jesus Christ by the Holy Ghost in all whose Names we receive it and to whose Service we are consecrated by it we thereby oblige our selves to his Worship both in the largest and strictest Notions to his entire Service in universal unreserved Obedience and all inward and external Acts of Adoration both in Soul and Body And by how much the Privileges of Baptism are more and greater and the Obligations of it stronger and more indispensable so much more zealously should we worship him that made it for us and hath admitted us unto it Few Aggravations inhance and heighten the guilt and provocation of our Sins so much as that they are the Sins