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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18976	Iacobs wel, and Abbots conduit paralleled, preached, and applied (in the cathedrall and metropoliticall Church of Christ in Canterbury) to the vse of that citie; now to make glad the citie of God. By Iames Cleland, Doctor of Diuinitie.	Cleland, James, d. 1627.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1626 (1626)	STC 5395; ESTC S121241	34,126	64

pond●re illi nihil detrabi potest huic nihil adiici curae plus in illo in hoc naturae Quintil lib. 10.6.1 diuersly in one consent of faith as sweetnesse in Socrates subtiltie in Lysias sharpnesse in Hyperides shrilnesse in Aeschines powerfulnesse in Demosthenes grauitie in Aphrican smoothnesse in Loelius copiousnesse in Carbo learning in Palaemon the stately stile of Agraecius the methodicall discourse of Alcimus the mincing-like of Adelphius and the flowing tongue of your Learned Lecturer whom I may iustly name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to say fluuiosum such is the volubility of his speech and other diuers gifts Likewise there are diuersities of gifts amongst the sixe Preachers of this Church whom I name vnder these Titles of sixe other old Orators as adstrictior Caluus numerosior Asinius splendidior Caesar amatior Coelius grauior Brutus plenior Tullius And with permission there are diuersities of gifts amongst vs o Non omnia possumus omnes Nihil est ab omni parte beatum Hor. lib. 2. carm Od. 16. ex Pindaro Euripide Theog ordinarie and rurall Ministers who come hither now and then vpon intreatie Alij sensu ampli sed non ore alij sensu inopes sed ore torrentes alij neque sensu ampli neque ore alij sensu ampli ore Some haue bad vtterance but a good conceit others an excellent vtterance but a meane wit some neither and some both One p surpasseth in expounding the words another is excellent in deliuering the matter a third happy for cases of conscience a fourth exquisite in determining Schoole-doubts In a word some be iudicious to enforme the vnderstanding others powerfull to reforme the will and affections All these diuers gifts are from aboue comming downe from one and the same Fountaine with whom is no variablenesse neither shadow of turning Iames Chapter 1. Ver. 17. Secondly Turne and hearken to the purling noyse of this our Water q Ebullit animus me us verbum bonum Psal 46. boyling and bubling vp at the Springs head r Fontibus atque antris gaudens montibus Echo Frangit inexpletas iterato murmure voces Heare how the water gusheth floweth and streameth out on euery side how the ſ Psal 19. sound of Gods word is gone out into all Lands This sound was prophesied by King Dauid commanded by Christ practised by his Apostles and euer to bee performed by their t Acts 2.46 Successors We should all pray prayse and preach the Lord with one accord And in very deed u Patriarcharum vinculum Prophetarum vehiculum Apostolorum resugium Martyrum solatium Author lib. ad fratres in heremo serm de pace This is the life of a Christian the bond of the Patriarchs the Chariot of the Prophets the refuge of the Apostles the solace of Martyrs a signe and token of the Church Militant heere on earth and an holy exercise of the Church Triumphant aboue in Heauen Without which eloquence is but vaine Prophesie is vnperfect Knowledge is nothing Faith is dead the workes of mercie are reiected Martyrdome it selfe is not accepted all other gifts and graces of the spirit are but as a sounding brasse and tinkling Cymball Thirdly The smell of Iacob is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath x Gen 27.27 blessed and the Water of his Well excelleth all other Waters in sent whatsoeuer whether they are naturally sweet Ecclus 39.13 or by art and composition For y Aliter olet flos vuae aliter flos oliuae aliter flos rosae aliter flos lilii aliter flos violae aliter redolet spica c. Gregor homil 5. in Ezechiel although the Rose hath its proper sweet smell by it selfe the Lilly by it selfe the Violet the Pinke the Gilly-flower and so the rest by themselues yet are they not put together for sweet sent comparable to the water of this Well Nor was that Well neere to Missenum which z Cardanus de Subtilitate Cardanus writes smelled so sweet of Cizinum as if it had beene compounded of the root of Iris of Saffaron and of Myrrhe nor was that most fragrant and odoriferous Fountaine of Caburra in Mesopotamia so sweete and comfortable to the smell as Iacobs Well Although the foolish Antiquitie imagined their fabulous Goddesse a Home Iuno fer tur terris magis omnibus vnam Posthabitam coluisse Samo Iuno sate ofttimes on that Well and therefore caused it smell so sweetly yet it is certaine our true God IESVS sate thus on Iacobs Well and so made it smell farre sweeter b 2. Cor. 2.14 And thankes bee vnto God which alwayes maketh manifest the sauour of his knowledge by vs in euery place for we are vnto God a sweet sauour of Christ in them that are saued and in them that perish To the one wee are the sauour of death vnto death and to the other the sauour of life vnto life and who is sufficient for these things 2. Cor. 2.14 c. Fourthly c Psal 34.8 Taste also how good is the Lord how this water exceedeth all other waters in taste to the palate euen the waters of d Coaspi Eleui fluuiorum fic adeò suaues aquae fuisse dicunturr vt ex cis Reges biberent vnde dici possent fluuii Regum ab illo vsu qua de re Aelianus var. bist l. 12. c. 40. Herodot Plin. lib. 31. cap. 3. Coaspes and Euleus which the Persians esteemed so much For allthough the waters of these two Riuers prolonged the liues of the Kings of Persia yet they made them not to liue for euer but whosoeuer drinketh of our water it shall be in him a Well of water springing vp into euerlasting life So whosoeuer drinketh of any other water thirsteth againe e Rupert in 4. Ioh. and the oftner he drinketh the more is hee dry But whosoeuer drinketh oc this water shall neuer thirst What say I this water is better in taste then all other waters when it is more pleasant to the palate and more profitable to the heart then f Clitorio quicunque sitim de Fonte leuaret Vina fugit gaudetque meris abstemius vnd●s Wine euen then that wine called Monembraticum Cretense or that Vinum germinans g Scalig. exerc 99. pag. 339. virgines which were in so great account amongst the Ancients for the first cup of wine is pleasure the second cup is losse of senses and the third of repentance or as Salomon h Pro. 25. saith At the last it biteth like a Serpent and stingeth like an Adder or a Cockatrice i Basiliscum dicunt suo aspectu corrump●●e suos spectatoros Basil in c. 3. in Esa p 685. Ambros serm 10. in Ps 118. Lucan lib. 9 Plin. l. 8. c. 21. where our water is that Nectar and Ambrose which Homer said the Heathen Gods did drinke or it may be called the Nepenthes of alluring Helena which bewitched all displeasure