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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

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

Justify us freely in his Blood sanctify us throughly by his Spirit and let him be made of God to us Wisdom to preserve us from the deceitfulness of Sin Sanctification to deliver us from the filthiness of Sin Redemption to free us from the bondage and dominion of Sin and Righteousness to save us from the guilt and damnation of Sin that we may never perish but have Everlasting Life All which we beg for his sake who is thy Christ and our Jesus to whom with thy Self and thy eternal Spirit be ascribed everlasting Praise and Glory for evermore Amen The end of the Prayers Forms of Thanksgiving I. O LORD most Mighty the great Creator of all things in Heaven and Earth whose Works are the Witnesses of Thy Being and of the adorable Perfections of thy Nature We bless and magnify thy glorious Name for all thy wondrous Works for making the Heavens and their Host the Earth and its Store the Sea and all the Waters in it and that spring from it and in particular for making these Healing Fountains for making known their Virtues for giving us liberty to use them and for any Blessing formerly or at this season vouchsafed to us by the use of them And we pray Thee to crown these Mercies with one better than the rest even so thankful an Heart as may improve all to thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. O Lord who art good and dost good We bless thy glorious Name for what thou art and what thou do'st for the Healing Fountain of thy free Grace and for the free Fountain of these Healing Waters for the Blessings of thy Throne and of thy Footstool for our Life and for our Livelihood for our Food and for our Physick for the Waters of the upper and the nether Springs for all thy Fountains and for all their Streams Good Lord create one Fountain more even a Fountain of Love and Thankfulness in all our Hearts and cause it to flow with constant streams of Obedience and Praise which may be acceptable in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. O Lord who art pleased to declare That who-so offereth Thee Thanks and Praise honoureth Thee Accept our unfeigned desires to honour Thee by giving thee Thanks and Praise with our whole Hearts and our whole Souls for thy manifold and inestimable Mercies vouchsafed unto us Not unto us Lord not unto us but to thy holy Name be given Glory We are less than the least of thy Mercies We deserved none before we had them we have forfeited all since we had them yet art thou pleased of thy Astonishing Goodness to give us new Instances of Mercy every day Lord give us a renewed sense of them all and an holy Zeal with humble Hearts to honour Thee for them all through Him by whom they are conveyed to us that is thy Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen IV. O Almighty and infinitely gracious Lord God we desire to fear Thee to give Thee Glory and to worship Thee that madest the Heaven and the Earth and the Sea and the Fountains of Water and for making these in particular of which we drink daily with so much satisfaction and expectation of relief We beseech Thee let not our Provocations disappoint our Hopes but pardon those and nourish these and crown them with a blessed success that we may ever give Thee Thanks and live thy Praises through Christ our Lord. Amen V. What shall we render to the Lord for all his Benefits Let us take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord most high But who can shew forth all his Praises who can reckon up the Mercies of one Water-season Our safe Arrival under his Protection from our Habitations needful Conveniences in this place for Soul and for Body for daily Worship and for daily Bread O Lord we bless thee that we have so many Mercies to bless thee for that we have an House a Chappel built to bless thee in O let us not want Hearts to bless thee with for Christ his sake Amen VI. O Lord our God whose Power Wisdom and Goodness are signally manifested in making the Fountains of Waters We praise thee for these and all other Manifestations of thy Almighty Power unsearchable Wisdom and inexhaustible Goodness And we beseech thee help us to walk before thee as become those who do indeed believe Thee to be such by fearing thee for thy Power following the conduct of thy Wisdom and loving thee for thy Goodness and all the Manifestations of it both by thy Providence and Grace Grant this O most merciful Father for the sake of thy dearest Son and our dearest Lord and Saviour to whom with thy self and thy most blessed Spirit be ascribed everlasting Honour Praise and Glory Amen VII Almighty Lord God who by thy Power and Wisdom hast made the Fountains of the great Deep and out of the depth of thy Mercy that Fountain of Baptism the Waters of which thou hast consecrated to the mystical washing away of Sin We most heartily bless thee for creating us after thy Image for our being born in the bosom of thy Church of Christian Parents in whose right and by whose care we were dedicated to thee in holy Baptism and after brought up in the true Religion We beseech thee baptize us by the Holy Ghost Wash us from the guilt and filth of all our Sins Justify us freely Sanctify us throughly Create in us O Lord a clean Heart and renew in us a right Spirit In our Baptismal Waters inable us to quench all the fiery Darts of the Devil and to wash off all the Defilements of our sinful Flesh and to dissolve all the Snares of the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World all which we have solemnly renounced And let the same Waters so moisten our Hearts that they may be fruitful in Faith Repentance and new Obedience that we may walk before thee in Righteousness and true Holiness all our days To the Glory of God the Father who created us and God the Son who redeem'd us and God the Holy Ghost who we hope hath sanctified us to whose Name we were consecrated and to promote whose Glory is not less our Interest than it is our Duty to which undivided Trinity and eternal Unity be everlasting Praise and Adoration Amen Short Meditations and Ejaculations to be used whilst the Waters are drinking HOW early do we rise to drink these Waters In the Morning shall my Prayer prevent thee O thou whose Compassions are new every morning No Man can tell the Date of these Fountains nor can any Man foretell their Period Yet are they but as yesterday to Him who is yesterday to day and the same for ever Who was who is and is to come How many Glasses have been drunk from these Wells how much more Water hath run waste how many yet remain in their pregnant Womb and how many Millions of Drops would these amount to yet

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

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