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A Little STREAM OF DIVINE Sweetness FROM The Living Fountaine for the Paradice of God LONDON Printed by G.D. sould by Tho Brewster and Greg Moule at the three Bibles in Pauls Church-yard neer the West end 1650. THE subject and occasion of this little Treatise fainting in the wildernesse of affliction I went to these Scriptures for recovery and on them spent some few meditations which I recommend unto the dead and livings view as vsefull unto both Rev. 3.21 To him that over comes will I give to sit with me in my Throns even as I overcame and am set with my Father in his Throne Rev. 21.2 And I John saw the holy City new Jerusalem come down from God out of Heaven prepared as a bride trimmed for her husband Rev. 3.2 Behold I stand at the doore and knock if any man heare my voyce and open I will come in and sup with him Rev. 22.1 And he shewed me a pure River of water of life cleare as Christall proceeding out of the Throne of God and the Lambe Rev. 22.4 And they shall see my face and his name shall be on their foreheads Doe not look but read and for what you profit let God have all the glory for to your sinfull friend there is none at all due To the right honourable his Excellency THO. Lord FAIRFAX Captain generall of all the forces in England and Wales c. NOble captain Generall will your Excellency once give leave to I dare scarce say what yet I beg as on my bended knee for the Spirits sake leave to shelter these few lines under your greatnesse hoping you will peruse them in a leasure houre not but that your breast hath sweeter things in it in which ye delight your selfe more then in all your victories pomps glory greatnesse which you are crowned with and admired for by all men good bad but the reason why I take this boldnesse is to present my thankfulnesse for your unwearied marches round about this kingdome in all houres and seasons I say for this and your many brave bold gallant charges where Cannons playd like thunder and bullets flew like Haile-stones driven by the winde such was that at Maid-stone and divers more besides but in these Christ did ever keep you with his life-guard of Angels and now hath brought you home from the fields of deadly slaughter to refresh your greatnesse now good men will bring presents or at least their thankfulnes as well as bad men court you for their owne advantage both the former I would doe as well as I can will your Excellency so take it my thankfulnesse it is and a present too like a glasse of Nectar from the Spirits breathings drinke it up my Lord for sure it will refresh you I know you may refuse it expecting the sonnes of Levi should all bring in their flagons full of rich and choycer liquor but they are many of them angry I cannot tell the reason why good men should be so unlesse they are weak and froward and know not what they would have but yet I think you value not the ingratitude of men knowing your reward is with your Lord and Master Christ the King of kings who will one day set you in his throne and glory for you have overcome you my Lord Tho. Fairfax have foyld and spoyld all yea all the mighty ones that have risen against us yea you I say with your gallant Champions have bravely done the thing once over and once again to that and with such expedition that the world round doth wonder for which wee hope though many stars or commets like to stars be fallen yet your honour glory shall endure like to the sun and moon for ever your merits with your Champions be remembred whilst one good man breaths in the nation And now wee who are private christians adde this short title to your Excellency the Saints Captain Generall next under Christ and when my Lord you need us wee are all in readines to pray to fight to live die at your command for Christ and this nation which now sits at rest but for taxes some poor and widdows wants who are all in hopes you will speake a word in their behalfe to those who soon can help them and surely will ere long though murmuring men say no. Well my Lord I say no more but the great Iehovah God Almighty blesse you make his face to shine in and from you al those who have followd you high and low in faithfulnes and unweariednes doing Christs and the nations work this is my wish to you and those who are sent over to the other nation by yours others commands to do Christs work and make him room for his Gospell and to this I wish O all ye Saints that love Christ your king his cause or these nations say Amen Amen as with one voice Your Lordships servant in Christ WILL. BLAKE To the Christian Reader TO the strong and to the weak to the merry and melancholy Christian I recommend these following lines which was pend in a wildernesse of affliction by the Spirits strength and power which hath emboldned me to present them to thy view and the worlds and that on serious consideration and some able Christians importunity But first I will tell thee what I was and now am that thou mayst see Gods goodnesse calling poore creatures out of darknesse to himselfe I was brought up by my parents in my youth to learne hall mary Pater noster the Beliefe and learne to read and where I served my apprenticeship little more was to be found but in that time I speake without any boasting to the praise of Gods grace he shind in some measure into me minding me of eternity and my soules condition which I saw and I still doe to be very sinfull Well I fell to reading the Practise of Piety Mr. Perkins and by these or rather the Spirit I got a little perswading of Gods love to my soule Well my time being out I set up for my selfe and seeking out for a wife which with long waiting and difficulty much expence and charge at last I got Four children God gave me by her but he hath taken them and her all againe too who was a woman of a thousand for good nature In six weeks time which must needs goe neer My eldest Sonne and daughter in a fortnight and my Wife a month after Well thought I if comfort be any where it is in God and so fell to meditating of these Scriptures but no more of this nor another tedious line onely mark Gods dealing with his people in afflictions which is most seen in that furnesse instance Peter Paul Daniel and the three Children Well friends what ever your afflictions or conditions be I know not but in these following lines lyes much comfort which I found in penning and I hope you will in reading for the glory all is yours and the sweetnesse too what is yours you may
was Israels victory and he in this was a type of our David our Christ who hath slain and triumpht openly over our enemies upon the crosse And therefore saith Christ to his Disciples be of good cheare I have overcome as in John the 16 the last Secondly We do overcome likewise when we doe by the strength of Christ oppose and overcome the pollutions of the world In this sence saith John Greater is he that is in you then he that is in this world and yet not but that a poor soule may be foyld and seemingly wholly overcome as David but yet David by renewing grace he gets up and fights and like David in conclusion wholly overcomes Saul and his house Again he may be said to overcome two waies First Comparing himselfe with himselfe I was such a sinner and such a sinner but now I thanke God I am no more the same man Secondly Hee may be said to overcome comparing himselfe with the world who lies lives and wallows in all kinde of polutions and defilements Revel 16. there is a blessing promised to such a one Behold saith Christ I come as a Thief in the night blessed is he that keepes his garments undefiled Thirdly What is meant by Christs Throne and by the Fathers Throne surely here is meant both one thing namely the Glory of God I say the Glory of God is the thing meant the eteruall Glory of God is the Throne on which Christ sits on and in which you must fit also Doth Christ sit in this glory of God Christ your Husband Christ your Head Christ your Vine then must you O Christians too for ye are inseperable Where should the Bride sit but by the Bridegroome Where should the Members be but with the Head Where should the Branches be but with the Vine O poore gentile sinner what glory is design'd for thee But fourthly What is meant by sitting down in Christs Throne or Gods Glory First It denotes a cessation or rest so you know Christ is said to enter into his rest as he is set down with his Father in glory And Paul saith there remains a rest for the people of God aluding to that so that to sit down with Christ in his Throne is to sit with Christ in the Glory of God Moses was but a while in the Mount with God and yet his face shined so that Israel could not behold him O how will thy face shine when thou shalt sit down with Christ in the true glory of God Moses saw him in fire smoake and thunder but thou shalt see him in Christ a loving kinde and tender father a father rejoycing over thee even as a bridegroome rejoycing over his bride to do them good saith the Lord in Isai O how well pleased was Jacob when he had his Joseph O friends God will sweetly please himself as I may so say when Christ shall say he are am I and all the Children thou hast given me make them welcome Father they are my sons and daughters whom I dearly loved dearly bought O seeing now I have them I am at rest while they were in the world tossed with afflictions and troubled with temptations my heart was not at rest but seeing now I have them and from those things have freed them I will set them in my Glory where they shall sweetly sing thus Farewell all sin and sorrow which now shall be no more my work and labour is over and nothing now remains but rest and joy and glory O this is a sweet sitting down indeed for a soul tost and tumbl'd with sinne and sorrow to be brought from all to rest for ever Secondly This setting in Christs Throne or Gods glory denotes a welcome unto Christ we bid them sit down that are welcome unto us take them by the hand and set them down by us O friends Christ will one day take you by the hand lead you to the Father present you as his Spouse the Father will take both Christ and yee and set you both down in his own Glory and in that day saith Christ Yee shall know the Father is in me and I in you then shall yee know the Fathers love too as Christ speakes Iohn 17. last v. O Christians yee will never know this love nor your union the strength glory sweetnesse of it till that day commeth but in that day yee shall know the relation your souls stand in to God to Christ You will know him then to be a Father indeed and not in name onely you will finde so much fatherly love and tenderness towards you that your souls shall lye steeping in it like Sugar in wine If a little taste of Gods love now be so sweet O what will it be when you shall lye night and day soaking in it and wholly melted by it into holy praises Here a gracious heart mourns for want of love to God to Christ but this want shall be supplyed when the Father and you personally meet which day is a comming and I tell you this till this day commeth yee will never know what the love of God and Christ is Now a drop is sweet but how sweet will it be when it shall be like a flowing Fountain in you O friends in that day yee shall be like as a Vessell that 's set under a Fountain Cock alwayes full and alwayes running over Now saith David thy loving kindnesse is better then life O but then he will say nothing but stand stand pore and admire I admire to al eternity when great and undeserved love is shewn unto us by some one unexpected how do we admire and as it were study and wonder why such kindnesse should be shewn unto us O precious christian thou wilt one day admire indeed to think that such love should be shown to such a dead dog as that good man said before the King so wilt thou say O my God and King what am I that thou shouldest love a poor Gentile sinner to keep me in thy presence to have me in thine eye to set me in thy throne that thou maist talk with me and tell me there thy thoughts of old O great and glorious God why art thou so kind to worme Jacob. Thirdly by sitting down in the throne of Christ or Gods glory it denotes respect and estimation we usually bid them sit down whom we best respect and esteem O happy christian how art thou esteemed of the Son and Father that thou shouldest sit down with them the world hates thee so farre as Christ appears in thee yea it cannot but hate thee so farre I say it hates thee though it love thee other wayes as a friend and kinsman or harmlesse man but I say so farre as thou refusest to comply with their wayes and wink at their faults to speak of their folly to sigh at their joy and mourn at their laughter so farre I say they cannot but hate thee but so farre as thou workest by their example and walkest by
friends death hath no Commission but from him the Lord that gives and takes and blessed be his name yea blessed I say be his holy name for what he hath now taken from me he first did give unto me Why should I not then praise his name Oh that I could and you my friends for all he gives and all he takes And that we may know first it is your duty yea I say is your duty and all theirs that truly feare God to submit with patience to his will and blesse his name for all his dispensations the which I will prove by some examples I could give you many instances as first that of old Eli concerning his Sonnes which you may read in Samuel the first Book Chap. 3. vers 18. O with what a sweet spirit doth he receive that sad message concerning his sons It is the Lord let him doe with me what he please O sweet and soure A sad message is told good old Eli concerning his sons yea a very sad one at which the eares of men should tingle But yet saith Eli unto Samuel It is the Lord and let him doe what seemes him good A second instance is that of David 2 Sam. Chap. 15. vers 26. Who was faine to fly with the Ark of God and his servants for his life from his habitation by reason of Absolom's unnaturall and deceitfull Rebellion Well many weep for this good mans danger and affliction and so doth he for he goes from Ierusalem with his head covered and his eyes weeping but yet sweetly thus saying If he have any pleasure in me he will bring me back againe otherwise loe here I am let him doe with me what he please O what a sweet and Saint-like Spirit was here in David Let him doe what he please loe here am I to submit A third instance is that of Paul who makes this his desire To glorifie Christ in his body But whether it be by life or death Paul cares not so Christ be glorified I could instance above all in Christ the patterne of all who sweetly sayes thus in the Garden Not my will but thine be done But I shall only mention in Iob whose sweet submission to God in his great afflictions I little minded till within these few dayes I don't remember scarse when I read one of Iobs Chapters O how many sad messages was brought to him not in one week after another like mine but in one day did his sad messengers come tumbling in with heavy messages concerning his sheep oxen servants sons and daughters well saith Iob The Lord gives and takes and blessed be his name What fuller submission could there be in a gracious heart then here is in these words But let me give you three or foure reasons why a gracious heart should sweetly submit to Gods will and the first reason shall be this the Holinesse of his will a Saint sees in the will of God a holinesse and therefore let things goe how they will yet thou remainest holy O thou that inhabitest Eternity Paul sayes he workes all things according to the counsell of his owne will surely that must needs be holy that is wrought according to the will and counsell of a holy God A second reason why a gracious heart should sweetly submit to the will of God is the Soveraignity of Gods will above the creature he doth what ever he will and all what ever he will and therefore saith Paul who hath resisted his will Shall the potsheard strive with the Potter or the creature with the Creator No nor the servant with his Master neither much lesse a gratious heart with his God and Maker Teach me to doe thy will O God saith David and every gracious heart too It is our prayer to say Thy will be done and it would be our perfection to submit A third reason why a gracious heart should submit to Gods will is the goodnesse of Gods will the will of God is good in all his working to his people So saith Paul all things worke together for the best to them that feare God Yea those vvorkings of Gods vvill vvhich most crosse nature doth he see a goodnes in O that I had more ability to see this to but however a gracious heart sees a goodnes in conclusion vvhich he doth acknovvledge in the will of God It was good for me saith David that I was afflicted for before I went astray And truly affliction doth often cause a Saint to looke to his wayes which he is too apt in prosperity to be mindlesse of Let us search and try our wayes saith the Church in afflictions and so saith a gracious heart in every smart affliction O how good is that will of God that wils thy affliction for so good an end And thus you see three reasons why a gracious heart should sweetly submit to Gods Will because of its Holinesse its Soveraignity and Goodnesse One word or two more and then I hvae done First then labour with your owne hearts to submit to Gods Will for in every submission yee serve some glorious designe of God and for this reasons sake labour quietly to submit O that my soule did know well his designe and reason why hee hath dealt so with me as hee hath in a way of affliction my afflictions are yet like the black side of a cloud O that I could see the bright side the glory of God which every strong Christian sees and by seeing quietly submit 2ly Let us labour to submit our wils to Gods for conformities sake and here let vveake Christians take the example of strong and they the example of Christ Who for the Glory that was set before him endured the Crosse and despised the shame Thirdly let us submit our vvills to God for it is the surest vvay and the safest First it is the surest if you vvould not offend God for if ye storme yee sinne and offend God vvhich a gracious heart should be carefull of Secondly it is the safest vvay the sturdy oakes resist the vvinde and are split but the gentle reed by yeelding stands Doth God take a child yeeld Doth he take another yeeld Doth he take all yeeld Doth he take a Wife a Husband yeeld If thou dost not he can take thy soule and throvv it into apprehensions of his vvrath vvhich vvill make thee roare as if thy bones vvere broken yea all thy bones but especially yeeld to God for he cannot onely take all thy comforts from thee but thy very soul and throw it into hell too O my friends let us yeeld to God for there is safety in it I have heard some ministers say of Augustine Lord saith he cut me hack me kill me so thou save my soul he hath delt so by my wife she hath had cutting afflictions two or three days travelling by a child as with Samuel which some of you my friends well know and as many by his losse his losse and the rest must needs be cutting well thus
laying choise and precious strong and stable foundation time and age out lasting foundation heaven earth Saints and Angels foundation Secondly It might be very well called new Ierusalem if you consider her builders old Ierusalem was built by Bricklayers Carpenters and such like crafts-men the choysest of them but thou O new Ierusalem by God Christ and the Spirit therefore art thou said by Paul to be made without hands wee looke for a City whose builder and maker is God thy Husband is thy maker the God of the whole earth shall he be called thy God and he onely none laid one stone in thee but he none found a stone but he no nor stick nor straw as I may so say for he found all in his own eternall purpose O saith God this and this shall be a stone to make me a Ierusalem where I will dwell for evermore but these I will not use throwing millions by which was as likely as any if he had pleased to use them to set his glory of But as God found all so Christ beares all We on him are built saith Paul as a spirituall house unto the Lord built by the Spirit for as God findes all and Christ bears all so the Spirit builds all by his Word and Prophets Fourthly Ierusalem was built for the honour of the Jewish nation but thee O new Ierusalem for the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who will shew his glory in thee because his love is set upon thee yea thy very gates more then all the dwellings of Iacob Fiftly Old Ierusalems wals and gates was but common stone but thine O new Ierusalem are built of all manner of pretious stones yea thy very gates are pearle O glorious city thy wals thy gates are precious living stones thy pavements are pure Gold Revel 21.18 O King Solomon where is thy glory all thy glory was but a dark shadow of this glory O Ierusalem city of the great King which he hath built for his Jewels and by his Jewels and the Sons of Sion more pretious then choyse Silver to dwell with him Christ and Angels for ever and ever Sixtly It is called new Ierusalem in respect of her watchmen and keepers O Ierusalem God did once set watchmen on thy wals but did they keep thee nay they could not keep thee they could not save thee for thou wast raced even to the ground But thou O new Ierusalem hath God and Christ within thee Angels round about thee well may thy gates be open day and night Revelations the 21. all safety is in thee all protection round about thee who was wont to be frighted from fears within and dangers round about Seventhly in respect of her light thy light O Ierusalem was not to be compared to thine O new Ierusalem thy light was but sun moon and creatures light but thy light O new Ierulem is this sun Suns and glory Angels are the sun of thy Sun and God is the Sun of Angels and glory too O new Ierusalem the glory of this God in thee is the light of thee the increated glory the uncreated glory O Ierusalem that is thy light therefore is thy light the light of lights and the light of life too the glory of the Lord and of the Lambe in thee are the light of thee O Ierusalem therefore is thy light the light of lights and the light of life too Now thou shalt need light of sun and moon no more no more for ever thou moon give place unto the sun thou sun give place unto the Lambe and unto the Lord for they must shine and ye must out for ever and let them shine thy day throughout thy long and endlesse day thy nightlesse day thy time and age out-lasting day It is said Abraham rejoyced to see Christs day O ye seed of Abraham Isaac and Jacob rejoyce in this your day for it will make amends for all your nights your nights of sorrow fear and trouble your longest nights your darksome could and stormy ones yea David tells you so saying though sorrow endure for a night yet joy commeth in the morning I this morning hath a noon of joy in it this mornings dawning hath and when ye by its dawning see O then what joy what peace what hope what rest thou canst not tell but doest enjoy thy wish thy would thy onely wish thy onely would which when thou hast thou ever cravest just as the child which suckes and cries and craves but hath Eightly it is called new Ierusalem in respect of her glory thy glory was gates walles temple towers riches strength and numeration of people But for thy glory O new Ierusalem it doth more excell all this then ever Solomons did the poorest Pesant for this read the 60 of Isa Arise and shine for the glory of the Lord is risen on thee the full glorie the true glorie which Moses could not behold and live no man can see my glory and live saith God to Moses but to thee O new Ierusalem when darknes shal cover the earth with al the dwellers therein then shall the Lord arise upon thee and his glorie shall be set and seen on thee yea such a glorie which shall confound the world yea confute the world of madnes and folly the world hath never seen thy glorie O new Ierusalem but when it doth shame shall cover her face and for shame shall kings and princes call to the hills and mountaines to fall upon them O Ierusalem the Gentiles shall walk in thy light then shalt thou see and shine and be astonished at thy own glorie the seas shall convert her treasure and the Gentiles their riches to Midian Ephah and Sheba shall bring their gold and incense unto thee for I will saith God beautifie the house of my glory verse 7. The yles shall waight upon thee the ships of Tharshish shall bring their sons their gold and freely offer to thee because of the name of the Lord thy God the holy One of Israel hath glorified thee Kings shall minister unto thee therefore thy gates shall be continually open they shall not be shut day nor night verse 12. and those kings and nations that will not serve thee shall be utterly destroyed O when will kings and nations minde this prophesie till then they will never submit their proud hearts cannot submit to lick the dust of thee O Ierusalem as David speaks Psalme But they shall submit like Iosephs brethren yea they that did afflict thee shall fall down at the soles of thy feet and call thee Sion the holy One of Israel And whereas thou hast been despised so that men went by thee I will make thee an eternall glory and a joy from generation to generation and thou shalt suck the milk of Gentiles and the breasts of kings yea the breast of Christ as I may so say the King of kings in whose breast lies a sea of sweetnesse where you may suck and smack smack and suck I and so
it is stronger then all sinne death men or devils and as long as strong it was from eternitie to eternitie from eternitie intentionally to all eternitie reallie but it is more sweet saith the Spirit then strong or long O the sweetnesse of all unions is but glimpse of this union What is the Father to the Son the husband to the wife but a shadow of Christ to the Soul yea all relations with all the sweetnesse of them and all the sweetnesse in them is but as a drop to this ocean of sweetnesse Christs union with the Saints Fourthly the usefullnesse of Christ to the Soul without me saith Christ ye can do nothing to his Disciples Christ is all in the Soul and all to the Soul A Christian can neither do nor suffer any thing but by Christ by him he can want and abound ye doe all things as Paul speaks through Christ that strengthens him Any work is hard for a Christian in his own strength a difficult work is nothing when the strength of Christ comes in O in his strength will a little David grapple with Goliah and foil him too But as he is strength to the Saints so is he all indeed to them yea all they stand in need of him to be he is a righteousnesse to cover them and an interceder to the Father for them yea what shal I say more he is an everliving faithful high Priest yea our King and Captain our ark where we may safely ride when a world lies round destroyed O Christ O Christ what shall I say of thee our ark our pillar our cloude by day our pillar by night our rock and shadow in a weary land our life our all in all and at all times Fiftly it showes us our advantage by Christ we are justified by his blood wee are sanctified by his spirit and saved by his merit O the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin which the blood of buls and goats could never doe as the Apostle speakes Does Satan lay sin to your charge tell him thou art justified by Christ doth he lay great sins to thee tell him Christ justifieth from all sins of all kinds great and small yea tell him thou art no sinner at all neither doth the father look upon thee as one in his Sons righteousnesse Truely when a poor soule is carried by his power thus to argue with Satan we winde him as a man doth a childe but else he binds and locks us up in bondage fears and darknesse that our very soules are restlesse day and night being filled with doubts and his accusements he is therefore called the accuser of the brethren he accuseth God to man and man to God envying both Sixtly our glory with Christ And first the certainty of it Secondly the greatnesse O saith the Spirit thy glory is sure it s laid and kept too for thy comming but as it is sure and safe laid up by Christ so it is full and large and therefore called by Paul a weight of glory Here we many times admire the light painted shadowes of glory and forget the true substance God hath laid up for us in his Son and heavens Eye hath not seen nor eare heard neither ever entred into the heart of man to conceive saith Paul what God hath laid up for us Eye hath not seen sure the eye hath seen Solomons glory yea all the gloryes of this world too O saith Paul that is nothing these things are nothing but painted shadowes and butterflies after which the fooles of this world runs like little children and for the eare too what hath that heard surely of all that hath been true and as much more too by reports of fained gods and glories in the Poets lying stories but were all these things true yet God hath laid up more glorie for the poorest Saints that walks in rags then all that they have wrought thou heard or thought no thou canst not think saith Paul nor no man living what God hath laid up for them that fear him Surely men might fancie more then hath been seen or heard Well saith Paul fancy all that this world hath seen or heard yea fancie another world too with as many joyes and pleasures of this world as griefs and sorrows yet all short and nothing O Christian little doest thou think and lesse the world what God hath laid up in store for thee and all his servants Fifthly a river is advantagious and usefull so is the Spirit it helps our infirmities wee know not what to pray for as we ought but the Spirit helpeth us with groanes which cannot be uttered O the Spirits groanings in us are powerfull prayers before God for us the promises are made to the Spirit praying in us and indeed those requests we are denyed of God are not from the Spirit but from flesh and blood and therefore it is that they are lost for the most part but the Spirit who knowes the minde of God never drawes forth a Christian to aske any thing but what is according to the minde of God and this he cannot but grant But thou complainest thou art an ignorant soule true the naturall man knows nothing but the spirituall new man in the naturall man knows all things yea the deep things of God as the Apostle speaks a naturall man is said to be a dead man every where in Scripture and the dead saith Solomon knowes nothing hee knowes not he lyes in the grave of sinne and corruption mouldering as it were into dust call him to come forth from wormes and putrifaction yet he stirres not at all even so the naturall man tell him his condition he believes it not call him to come forth of the grave of nature sinne and death he stirres not nor indeed cannot he is bound up so by the power of the Devil sinne and darknesse Sixthly a river runnes silently and makes little or no noise at all have you never found the Spirit running in a Sermon at a praier in a conference but especially in a meditation with little noise it sweetly turning thy very blood in thy veins making thy heart as it were to wamble I know you have many times Truly when this river runnes trickling up and down the Soul making little noise in the Soul yea dipping and diving of her in Divine delights which many talking Christians are ignorant of Seventhly a river is deep so is the Spirit in its discoveries He discovers the deep things of God and Christ and the Gospel which others cannot reach nor fathom by wit nor Learning no it is out of their element I have heard as wise able men at least so counted and are so sure in civill things in lattine Law or Fathers speaking of this river and the nature of it but as much out of the way as any blind man ever was without his guide The maskd man turns and winds but still beside the way the Sinner does the like following carnall reason to find out Christ and