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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

The same Author hath also published THE Vertuous Woman found her Loss bewail'd and Character exemplified In a Sermon preached at the Funeral of that most Exellent and Religious Lady the Right Honourable MARY Countess Dowager of VVARVVICK the most Illustrious Patern of sincere Piety and solid Goodness this Age hath produced to which is annexed some of her Ladiship 's pious and useful Meditations The great Evil of Procrastination or the Sinfulness and Danger of deferring Repentance In several Discourses A Sermon preached before the Company of Apothecaries on Eccles 10.1 published at the Request of the said Company Say on Or a seasonable Plea for a full hearing betwixt Man and Man and a serious Plea for the like hearing betwixt God and Man in a Sermon preached at the Assizes at Chelmsford in Essex All four sold by Nathaniel Ranew at the King's-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard 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 TUNBRIDGWELLS 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 Forms of Meditations Prayers and Thanksgivings suited to the occasion By ANTHONY WALKER D.D. O ye Wells bless ye the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever Song of the three Children London Printed for Nathaniel Ranew at the King's-Arms in St. Paul'● Church-Yard MDCLXXXV THE Epistle Dedicatory TO Mr. NATHANIEL HAWS Citizen of London and Treasurer of Christ-Church Hospital Honoured Friend THO the mutual Intercourse of kind and good Offices which hath some Years past betwixt us and especially at Tunbridg-Wells might excuse yea oblige me to so open an Acknowledgment of the Sense I have of your Civilities and Friendship and the inscribing your Name upon these Papers without further prospect of you than in your single and personal Capacity would be too small a return for those Kindnesses by which I am become your Debtor Yet give me leave to tell you I herein consider you under that more publick Character wherewith your Zeal your Cost your Pains about the erecting of that commodious beautiful and Elegant Structure of the Chappel we all here injoy the benefit of justly invests you And if I could represent your Effigies in the Front of these few Sheets it should be with your green Book in your Hand gratefully receiving modestly solliciting and faithfully recording the royal noble generous Contributions to this pious useful Work which have amounted to about Eleven hundred Pounds by your prudent Care and Industry faithfully expended in the erecting and adoining of it And I hereby as much as in me lies constitute you who was for the greater part receiver of their Money Receiver-general in their Name of all the Honour I can do them and the best Gratitude I can return them for their so large and pious Liberality And in this Inscription which I make to you as their Trustee and Representative I dedicate these Papers to them all with deepest Submission begging both their Pardon and Acceptance of so faint and disproportionable a return from the meanest of those Divines who willingly bestow our Pains amongst them till some of those excellent Persons of greater Ability Name and Merit be pleas'd to do it with actual Performances which may equal my Wishes and Desires to do them Honour and edify and inflame their Devotion The late fresh Accession of Princely Bounty set as a Crown upon the Head of the preceding Charity will not only be the lasting Ornament and Glory of the publick Table you have exposed in the Chappel to every Mans view of all Monies received and expended to prevent Obloquy and Suspicion in them who know you not for those who know you do not need it But I hope is a good Omen that in due time it may be as conveniently endow'd as it is commodiously built that there may be Wells of Salvation for the poor Neighbourhood all the Year and if I may without imputation of Lightness allude to St. Paul's Expression The Word may be preach'd in season and out of Water season Let not this unexpected Address be as unwelcome as unlook'd for neither let the Meanness of it cool the Reciprocation of that Esteem and Friendship which hath hitherto been so obligingly allow'd to Honoured Sir Your cordial Friend and willing Servant ANTHONY WALKER From my Lodgings near Tunbridg-Wells July 24. 1684. THE PREFACE TO THE Christian Reader Especially Such as use the Mineral Waters Good Reader AS it is unquestionably the Duty and Interest of every Christian both to acquire and retain a deep and most serious sense of God upon his own Heart and as much as possibly he can to impress the like upon his fellow Christians So this Care is in a greater and more eminent degree incumbent upon Christ's Ministers whom he hath singled out and appointed to attend upon this most important Affair and Business And as no means are to be esteem'd improper or superfluous which God hath afforded or designed to this end we ought our selves to learn and teach others from both the Books which God hath written for our Institution and Instruction Now these Books are that of the Creatures and that of the Scriptures of his Works and of his Word of his Providences and of his Ordinances of Nature and of Grace Holy David joyns both these together in the 19th Psalm He begins with the first The Heavens declare the Glory of God the Firmament shews his handy-work to Verse the 7th where he proceeds to the second The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the Soul the Testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the Statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the Heart c. And as it cannot be denied that both these great Volumes are full of the glorious Discoveries of God so it must be confest that the Waters are one of the fairest and most legible Characters in which God's Name is written in the Book of Nature The Rains the Seas the Rivers and the Fountains are as authentick witnesses of the the Being and of the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as any of those other visibles which reflect the invisible Perfections of the great Creator Preserver and Governour of all things The Water● are a natural Looking-glass or Mirror in them Face answers to Face as the Wise-Man tells us Prov. 27 19. And the Face of God may b● seen reflected in them as clearly and distinctly as in any of his providentia● Manifestations And if the ordinary Properties of common Waters in their cleansing fructifying softning moistning thirst-quenching and uniting Qualities perform this so well how much more do the Minera● Springs by their extraordinary Virtues of healing opening purging dulcifying mollifying strengthning c. and being most signally beneficial loudly proclaim it That it must

argue great Stupidness not to observe it and greater Ingratitude yea Impiety not to admire love and praise him for them who hath indued them with these Virtues especially in those who use them and have found them beneficial and reap'd Advantage by the use of them These things considered and seeing so many hundreds yea thousands in this and other Nations yearly use such Waters both by Bathing and Potation I cannot but wonder that nothing hath hitherto been publish'd that I could ever hear of to provoke promote or assist their Devotion from this particular Topick Certainly if the Scale or Ladder of the Creatures be excellently fitted to help the Minds ascent to God there is no round or step in all that Ladder more steady and firm how unstable soever Water be of it self than this of the Waters Cardinal Bellarmin in the Treatise which he wrote De ascensione mentis in Deum per scalas rerum creaturum not as an ingaged Disputant and peevish angry Controvertist but as becomes a serious pious Christian in his September the Month he reserved for Contemplation and Devotion with a calm and sedate Spirit relishing of no Heats but those decent and commendable ones of Zeal Devotion Admiration Love and Thankfulness hath one of the most considerable Chapters Gradus Quartus upon this Subject the sum of which for the sake of English Readers I have subjoyned amongst the Meditations and Prayers I have therefore like Elihu in the Book of Job provoked by the silence of those who were fitter for it adventured to adapt a Discourse and add some Forms of Meditation Prayers and Thanksgivings for the use of those who attend the Mineral Waters I heartily wish it had come a few days or weeks sooner into my mind that I might have had a little more time to have rendred it less incompleat But I was loth wholly to slip this Water-season and therefore must adventure it abroad so unpolisht as it is It may provoke some abler Hand or if it find but tolerable Acceptance put me upon the trial what I can do to its melioration with some more leisure and intention of thoughts Much of it was written at the Wells since my coming down this Season and all transcrib'd and sent up sheet by sheet where 't is true I had my Text daily before mine Eyes but wanted my Books to comment on it But tho 't was partly writ at Tunbridg-Wells and chiefly calculated for those who use them yet I had a Prospect of their Benefit who use other Mineral Waters whether for inward or outward Distempers by drinking or by bathing Amongst many other strange Fountains St. Augustin writes of two One which is always full of Fish De Genesi ad lit lib. 3. cap. 8. Another that will light or kindle Torches tho its Water of it self be cold De Civ Dei lib. 21. cap. 5. And there is in Lancashire the like Fountain as I was lately here informed by a Person of Reputation whose Testimony I do not in the least question he being an Eye-witness of it that being stirr'd at the bottom the steam of it will kindle Paper into a flame If I can at these Fountains catch any Fish in his sense who said henceforth you shall become Fishers of Men I shall sacrifice my Praises not to my Net but unto Him at whose Word I let it down For to fish for any thing else in such an Undertaking I look upon as so unmanly so unpriestly so unchristian that I should greatly despise my self should I not despise so low so muddy motives And if I can bring Fire out of this Water and kindle a Torch of Religion and inflame my own and other Mens Devotion the most ascending of those flames shall mount up to Him in humble Acknowledgments who put the price into my hand and gave me a heart in any measure to improve it I will trouble you with no Apologies for my publishing these Papers they seldom are free from Blame never from sinister Suspicion and such Gildings oftner make them keck for whom they are prepared than the Pills themselves they were designed to cover I thank God I can sincerely and with comfort say I meant well and aimed at the Glory of God and the Edification of those into whose hands they may come how weakly soever I have performed and this will yield me inward satisfaction tho it should render me in some Mens eyes as David's dancing before the Ark rendred him in the eyes of Michal I shall conclude with these few Requests and the first thing I ask of thee good Reader is That thou wouldst be like to God in accepting of a willing mind Secondly If thou meetest here and there with an expression out of the road of common phrase thou wouldst not impute it to a vain affectation of hard words but consider that the nature of the Subject constrain'd me to the use of them For tho I am a very incompetent Judge of Oratory yet I know that the most masculine Eloquence is made up of plain expressive words provided they be not slovenly and rude which suitably cloath the Notions of the Speaker and aptly convey them to the Understandings of the Hearers My Age allows me not to be a florid Speaker had I ability to be so I remember it was the reproach of Hortensius to be at once both green and gray a verdant Orator in his fading withered years In a word who-ever knows the Auditory to which I spake cannot deny that speaking as I did and excusing of my self that I could speak no better needs no excuse Thirdly That if thou wilt not be so humble and so pious as to be made better by it thy self yet be not so unjust and unkind as to reproach it and thereby hinder others from being benefited by it Lastly If but one or two shall imploy some of those vacant hours this time and place affords them and shall thereby be helpt to pray to God or to praise him I entreat them to beg a Blessing on this Work and him who is their Christian Brother and Servant for Jesus sake A. W. Reader Whereas the Title over the Pages are A Sermon preached at Tunbridg it should have been Two Sermons preached at Tunbridg-Wells Jo. Hen. Alstedius Encyclop lib. 18. cap. 6. de Fontibus praecipuis Peroratio Hydrographiae HAEC est Hydrographia Marium Lacuum Fluminum Fontium Qu●● quatuor praecones Potentiae Sapientiae Clementiae Divinae Surda qui praetervehitur a●re nè ille plusquam ingratus Nam siv● quantitatem consideres illa est stupenda siv● qualitates illae sunt utilissimae sive motum ille est admirandus Quae omnia nos manu ducunt ad Dei Opt. Max. admirationem adorationem cui soli sit laus in solidum The Seas the Lakes the Rivers and the Fountains are four loud Proclaimer● of the Divine Power VVisdom and Goodness to which who ever turns a deaf Ear he is worse than

or at least may be augmented such as are vulgarly call'd Land-springs from Rains and dissolved Snows soaking into and reserved in the prepared void Places or Caverns of the Earth which fail and dry up the times of Drought 7. 'T is of all Opinions most probable that the principal Fountains have their Origen from the Sea and great Abyss or huge store and treasury of Waters made and reserved in the deep Cellars of the Earth for that very end and purpose 8. 'T is very likely that the Fountain-Waters receive their several useful Qualities from the various Soils and Minerals through which they glide and imbibe and are impregnated by their different Properties while they are percollated and strained through them and become beneficial for Bathing or Potation outward or inward Application 9. 'T is probable that besides the second Causes God makes use of at least so far as any Philosophy hitherto hath or can give a full and satisfactory account God doth impress upon them and communicate to them immediately many of those useful Qualities by which they become so beneneficial to Mankind 10. Lastly whatever second Causes they proceed from or are rendred fit to be helpful and healthful by that is no prejudice to the main Truth that God makes them nor derogates ought from the Glory that is due to him for the making of them whether we consider them as ordinary Fountains for common use or extraordinary for Health and Cure of Distempers SERMON II. REV. 14.7 Worship him that made the Fountains of Waters LED by the Authority of our Lord's Example whose Sermons mostly were occasional preach'd upon visible Texts I singled out these Words as not unsuitable to this Assembly the Centre of which are the adjoyning Wells In the handling of them I reduced all I design'd to speak unto this easy Method To inquire 1. What is the sole Object adequate Reason and right Notion of Religious Worship 2. Who made the Fountains and in a short Digression how he made them 3. Why the Angel propounds him to be worship'd under that Notion Maker of the Fountains and how it may appear that this is a good and sufficient Reason to oblige us to it 4. To draw practical Inferences from the whole proper to us at this Time and Place The two former I have finish'd and sum'd up the philosophick part of my Discourse of the Origine of Fountains in ten Propositions To which Discouse my Subject almost necessitated me For as it had been a fault to have affected it and prest and drag'd it in reluctantly so had it been blame-worthy to have refus'd the Service it so freely and so fairly offered us to assist us in our main Hypothesis 'T was an Observation worthy that great Mans Wisdom who first made it I mean the wise Lord Verulam That a smattering in Philosophy disposes to Atheism but a deeper search into it and knowledg of it makes a good Divine and a better Christian We have a common saying Vbi desinit Philosophus ibi incipit Theologus what Philosophy begins Divinity finisheth I shall therefore now proceed to entertain you as becomes a Divine and Preacher in answering the third inquiry begging only those Allowances which are but equal to be given to one the obscurity of whose Station can hardly avoid contracting an habit of flat Expression and lower Notion I haste to the third and last Enquiry Why the Angel propounds him to be worship'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 We may conceive a double Reason of it 1. To obviate the Superstition and Idolatry of the World which was used to worship the Fountains themselves All parts of the Creation were abus'd to Idolatry especially what appear'd most glorious and was found most beneficial As the Heavens and their Host the Sun Moon and Stars for their Beauty and Influences under the Names of Jupiter Apollo Juno Diana c. by the Romans and of Baal and Astaroth c. by the Eastern Nations so the Earth for its Fruitfulness by the Name of Ceres and Tellus And the Waters almost as much as any part of the World The Sea for its vastness by the Name of Neptune and the Rivers and Fountains for the many benefits they yielded for the perennity and constancy of their flowing which seem'd to resemble an eternal being and for the cool and shady places in which they mostly were which struck an aw and represented some kind of Sacredness Thus they had their Aquatick Goddess and Nymphs their Naiades which they supposed to dwell in them or preside over them Now as 't was usual to obviate the worship of the Host of Heaven by directing to worship him that made the Heavens and debasing the Gods that made them not The Gods which did not make the Heavens shall be destroy'd from under the Heavens Jer. 10.11 Which Verse was written in the Chaldee Tongue that the Babylonians might understand it tho all the rest of the Book be written in the Hebrew Language So to convince them of the evil of worshipping the Fountains and divert them from it he calls them to worship him that made them And we may see the more evident need of it if we consider of how large a spread this Superstition was and how deep root it had taken for there being so many Miranda and so great Beneficia so many stupendous and unaccountable natural Wonders and so many Advantages accruing to Men from Fountains of so various kinds we need not be surprized at it that they who worshipped every thing that was either very extraordinary or very beneficial to their Life or Health should idolize them And this continued so long and the World was so pertinacious in it that the Fathers of the Primitive Church were forc'd to preach and write most instantly and severely against it To name but one St. Aug. Serm. de Temp. 241. de Auguriis Nec ad Arbores debent Christiani vota reddere nec ad Fontem orare si se volunt per gratiam Dei de aeterno supplicio liberari Christians ought neither to pay Vows to Trees nor pray at or to the Wells if by the Grace of God they would be freed from Eternal Punishment And a little after Contestor vos coram Deo Angelis ejus ac de Nuncio ut nec ad illa diabolica Convivia quae aut ad fanum ad Fontesque aut ad aliquas Arbores fiant veniatis I adjure ye before God and his Angels that ye come not to those Diabolical Feasts which are made at Fountains and certain Trees And how many Superstitions have been us'd almost if not wholly to this very day about Fountains and the supposed tutelar Guardians of them is not unknown to many as might be instanced in the imaginary St. Richard at the salt Wells in Worcester-shire and many others elsewhere Now to obviate these evil Practices saith

then will the Fire of this Desire blaze forth above all Desires How great will then thy Happiness O my Soul be when thy Beloved and thy Lover CHRIST will shew thee all the Treasures of the Knowledg and Wisdom of God But that such hopes may not be frustrate strive to keep Christ's Precepts for he hath said If any Man loves me he will keep my Words and he that loves me not keepeth not my Words Mean while let thy Wisdom be such as holy Job describes The Fear of the Lord is Wisdom and to depart from evil is Vnderstanding And what good soever thou beholdest in the Creatures know that it flows from God the Fountain of all Goodness and so with blessed Francis learn to to taste the Goodness of the Fountain in every Creature as in Rivolets that are derived from it Devotions for Water-drinkers OR Meditations Prayers and Thanksgiving fitted to that occasion MEDITATION I. Upon the many kinds of Diseases cured by these Waters HOW great is that Evil which Fools make a Mock of The Cause may be seen in the Effects Had there been no Sin there had been no Sorrow nor Sickness no Diseases Pain or Death The great number of Distempers is no small evidence of the great Evil of Sin 'T is a prolifick Root which bears such variety such multitude of Fruit. The great Physician Fernelius cries out Totus Homo totus Morbus which we may english by the Prophet Isaiah's Words From the sole of the Foot even to the Head there is no Soundness and not only from top to bottom but from outside to within the whole Head is sick and the whole Heart is faint And the Prince of Physicians Galen sums up the Diseases to which the Eye alone is subject to amount to no less than three hundred how many then of the whole Head how many are there of the whole Body And yet the most of what we know is the least of what we know not How many hidden Distempers and which yet know no Name are we subject to And Art is posed to keep pace with Nature and fit new Names to new Diseases And almost every Year some comes upon the Stage known by no other dress call'd by no other title but the New Fever or New Disease And yet O Lord the number of our Sins which exceed the number of our Diseases is more exceeded by the multitude of thy Mercies than the Stars outshine the Gloworms or thy Throne in Heaven is higher than thy Foot-stool on Earth He 's blind which doth not see he deserves to be struck dumb who will not confess this Truth which every day which every place proclaims but few more loudly or significantly than this Place or Season How many Miracles of Mercy doth thy Power and Goodness daily work here How many Patients wait upon thee the Great Physician How many chronical and stubborn Distempers which had baffled all the Sons of Art yield to the God of Nature Should the vast number which daily drink of this Fountain of thy Pleasure strictly confer Notes their Distempers would be found as different as their Faces not two exactly alike yet all expect and most obtain Relief O Lord by the multitude of thy unknown Mercies heal all the known and unknown Diseases of our Bodies and Sins of our Souls MEDITAT II. With Allusion to John 5.3 In them lay a multitude of Impotent Folk waiting for the moving of the Water THE mighty Confluence of which these Wells are the Centre is a very humbling a very mortifying Consideration For tho the Gallantry and Rich Attire of the Company may emulate the Courts of greatest Princes and make this Desert forget its Solitude and we may in this Wilderness find such Softness and Delicacy as uses to be in King's Houses Yet in very truth this place is but a great Hospital and the splendid Buildings which rise so fast at South-borough Rust-Hall and about Mount-Ephraim are but so many Apartments in this great Infirmatory And the Guests who fill them are but so many Impotent Lazars under the Vests of Dives Every Glass we drink for cure is a tacite Confession of our hidden Infirmities and inward Distempers and that tho array'd as the Lillies of the Field as very Grass as they Gay Beggars which wait at these Wells which are the Celler of the great House-keeper for a dole of Mercy Nothing is more insufferable than an insolent Beggar Nothing more despicable than to be poor and proud to need Relief and provoke him from whom we expect it The first Prescription every wise Physician gives his Patient is that he must be regular take what he orders and as he orders Thou Lord art our Physician we are thy Patients these Wells are thy Shop their Waters are thy Medicines thy Word the Prescription how we must use them and all thy other Gifts with Prayer and Thanks-giving O that we all may humbly and sincerely do so Amen MEDITAT III. Upon an Herse passing by towards the Wells July 22. BEing return'd to my Lodgings from the Wells and sitting in the pleasant Tent of my honoured Friend I saw an Herse pass towards the Wells And tho I had not heard of the Death of any Person of Quality hereabouts yet it put me in mind of a Passage of the wise Moralist Seneca which I think for I dare not affirm it at this distance from my Books is in 101 Epist wrote on the sudden Death of Senecio Because thou knowest not when Death will expect thee do thou expect it in every time and because thou knowest not where it will meet thee do thou look for it in every place 'T is in hope of Health and Life that Men come hither yet some who come down in a Coach have changed it for an Herse to be carried up in and when they were knocking at the Doors of Health had the the Gates of the Grave unlock'd to receive them and found what was ordained for Life to be unto Death O how good how wise is it to be always prepared to die and every day to strike Tallies with Life O Lord Jesus who wilt certainly be my Judg when I die give me Wisdom give me thy Grace to take thy Counsel while I live while I am in Health to be always ready as a wise Virgin for the coming of the Bridegroom Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he comes shall find watching Good Lord vouchsafe to make me of that happy number Amen MEDITAT IV. Upon the plentiful Supply with which God hath furnished the World both for Food and Physick 'T Is a great Aggravation of our Sins that we commit them all against our Benefactor and abuse all the Creatures of God to his Dishonour To take as the Prophet Hoseah speaks his Silver his Gold his Wooll and his Flax his Bread and his Flesh his Wine and his Water his Time and his Talents and to turn them against himself and as with Weapons of Unrighteousness