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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

this preaching Angel worship not the Wells or Fountains or any supposed tutelary Deities or Daemons residing in them or presiding over them but him that made them and alone can bless them Idolize not the likeness of any thing that is in the Waters under the Earth nor the Virtues of those Waters nor the faint Resemblance there seems to be of an eternal Being in their Perennity nor any thing in them or in any other Being which is made but him that is the Maker of them and the great Creator and Preserver of all things else for nil factum adorandum God made nothing to be worshipt'd and nothing must be worship'd that is made 2. But the second and more positive Reason why he directs us to worship him that made the Fountains is because the making of them is a signal proof that he is the true God and witness those Perfections to be in him for which he is truly adorable and a meet Object capable and worthy of Religious Adoration I before suggested that whatever Work of Nature or of Grace manifests the Author of it to be indued with infinite Perfections or that he is a Being absolutely and infinitely perfect is a good and sufficient Reason for the worshipping of him Now not to enquire into all or more than the signal Trinity of Attributes infinite Power infinite Wisdom infinite Goodness if the making of the Fountains be a valid and convincing Argument that he who made them hath all these is infinitely powerful wise and good nay hath but any of them supposing that they might be parted is perfect in Power only or in Wisdom or in Goodness that alone were a good Argument both that he might and ought to be worshipped Not that the making of the Fountains proves no more for I think it is easy to evince that their Maker is an Eternal Being from Prov. 8. and Eternal is truly an incommunicable Attribute and a most adorable Perfection And more might be named but we may safely confine our selves to the three afore specified and if the making of them proves him to be all or any of these he must be worship'd that is such because he is such I will touch them in order First The making the Fountains proves him infinitely powerful which we may consider in several respects 1. 'T is a Work and a Demonstration of Almighty Power to produce out of nothing that which was not to give that a Being which had none before Now there was a time when or rather before time it self was there were no Fountains abounding with Water Prov. 8.24 And his Almighty Fiat gave them Being who spake the Word and they were made who commanded and they were brought forth By the Word of the Lord were the Waters made and all the kinds and regions of them by the breath of his Mouth and the first of Genesis makes at least as signal and more repeated mention of the Waters the Deep the Seas then of Heaven and Earth Some think that the first matter the Platonists ὕλη the Scriptures Tohu and Bohu which we call the Chaos was a watery fluid Mass Mr. Burnet's Theory of the Earth is chiefly built upon this Hypothesis And the great Abyss or Barathron was the first or oldest of God's Works of Power and the Issues and Outlets thereof are the Effects of the same Power and they are those we call the Fountains of the great Deep so that the making them evidences him to be an Almighty Creator 2. Having made and shut up those vast Stores and Treasuries of Water 't is a proof of his Power to unlock and unbar those mighty Rocks and Mountains which imprisoned and shut them in and give them vent and passage and open the very Womb of the Earth and Nature that they may issue out The Jews have a saying that God keeps three Keys in his own Hand the Key of the Womb the Key of the Grave and the Key of the Barn sinifying thereby that Fruitfulness or Barrenness Life and Death Plenty and Scarcity depend immediately on him and are great Evidences of his Power and certainly it is no less to have the Key of the great Abyss 'T is one of the most majestick Proofs of the Divine Power which God himself insists upon Job 38.8 11. To shut up the Sea with doors and to say to it Hither shalt thou go and no further and here shall thy proud Wave stop themselves And 't is no less Power which cleaves the mighty Rocks to let it out than to bridle its swelling Surges by the smallest Sand. 3. He makes new sudden extraordinary Fountains when he pleases without and beyond any natural apparent Causes strikes the flinty Rock and Waters gush forth more readily than Sparks or Fire would by strikeing it with Steel He must certainly be the Almighty Lord of Nature who can unhinge it and change its Laws when ever he pleases turning the dry Ground into Water-springs 4. As the making Heaven and Earth prove his Omnipotence for 't is upon that account we profess in our Creed to believe him Almighty I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth c. No less doth the making of the Sea and Fountains prove the same for they are rank'd in the same Series in this very Text. 5. 'T is a mighty proof of his Power to continue them to supply and feed them for so many Ages that they die not but are justly stiled living Waters Preservation is a continued Creation Secondly The making of the Fountains is a proof of his Wisdom as may appear 1. In his contriving and building the whole System of universal Nature so admirably so commodiously every piece thereof agreeing so excellently with all the others that they are mutually subservient This harmonious Fabrick this exact Composition of the whole is a Work of that deep that infinite and adorable Wisdom that it is an unanswerable Argument for an intelligent Providence And may put to shame and to silence all the Atheists and Semi-Atheists in the World And tho I confess 't is more usual to instance in the Heavens as being more visible and to argue from the Scituation Motion and Position of the Sun Moon and Stars towards the Earth to render their Influences more propitious that the whole may be fruitful and a commodious Habitation that all may in good degree injoy their Comfort and their Blessing and none be wholly depriv'd or destitute nor scorch'd or spoiled by them Yet with the like advantage might we argue from the Sea and Fountains the spreading and diffusing of which through so many hidden Veins within the Earth and dislodging themselves in so many commodious places and flowing in so many chrystal cooling healthful Streams both greatly beautifies and garnisheth the Earth and renders it fertile and delightful for benefit of Man and Beasts 2. As they are so contrived that all the Phaenomena about them are unaccountable and the wisest and most inquisitive

Morning Prayer Te Deum or that and is taken out of the Additions to Dan●el Where all the Magnalia the signal Works of God are reckoned up and excited to bless the Lord which is to provoke Men to bless God for them There we find Fountains or Wells in the List or Catalogue of those famous Works of God O ye Wells bless ye the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever And I wish that in this place at least that Canticle were sometimes read as the Liturgy appoints for not only that Versicle is very proper but the whole very warming and enflaming I stay not to descant upon every Scripture I have cited nor to shew wherein their Strength lay to prove what I produc'd them for because I suppose such Evidence to accompany them that 't is needless and would be superfluous I may subjoin Arguments to prove that God made the Fountains though very transiently 1. Our Text supposes it and takes it for granted And both this Text and the 8th of Proverbs and many other Scriptures rank them in the same Order and Series with the Heaven the Earth and the Sea to signifie that God is as undoubtedly the Maker of those as of these 2. The true God made the Waters above the Heavens He is the Father of the Rain and he begets the drops of Dew Job 38.28 And by parity of Reason He makes the Waters under the Earth and the Mists the Vapors and the Springs that rise from thence 3. He makes the miraculous extraordinary Fountains and Streams that flow from them as that Exod. 17.6 Behold I will stand before thee there upon the Rock and thou shalt smite the Rock and there shall come forth Waters out of it Which the Psalmist ascribes to God Psa 78.15 He clave the Rock in the Wilderness and gave them Drink as out of the great Depths And Psal 105.41 He opened the Rock and the Waters gushed out they ran in dry places like a River And the other Fountains are the effects of the same Power and are accounted less miraculous only because they are more common 4. God is the great Artificer and Maker of Universal Nature He that made all things is God And whatever second causes he hath appointed and constituted as instrumental to produce the Fountains he is as truly the Maker of them still as he is the Maker of every one of us tho we had Fathers who begat us and Mothers in whose Wombs we were all formed Job 31.15 Did not he that made me in the Womb make him and did not one fashion us in the Womb Causa causae est causa causati He is as truly to be intitled to what he produceth mediately as to his most immediate Productions 5. Lastly The Scripture which is exceeding jealous of the Glory of God in point of Worship and can endure Competitors and Copartners less than a King in his Throne or an Husband in his Bed My Glory will I not give to another Isa 42.8 yet allows and requires the Glory of Religious Worship to be given to him that made the Fountains which is an infallible Inference that by the Scriptures Testimony he that made them is the true God This may suffice to prove that God made the Fountains But to demonstrate how he made them is more difficult 'T is a noble and delightful but withall a busy and perplexed Inquiry both amongst Divines and Philosophers concerning the Origine of Fountains their various useful Qualities and how they became inriched with them their Perennity and constant flowing for so many Ages their vast depth in the lowest Bowels of the Earth where they are often found and again their strange ascent and heighth and breaking out as they sometimes do in the highest Tops and Summities of Mountains and many more of no less difficult Solution But tho the search into these things be exceeding pleasant to inquisitive Minds and it might not be unwelcome to many of you to discuss them Yet it is not so proper for the Pulpit as the Schools and would not well become a Discourse which designs to minister to Devotion rather than to gratify your Curiosity and delight your Fancies Yet that I may not tantalize your Minds by a meer starting of Questions nor disoblige you by a vexing Disappointment I will first refer you to those Authors who by what they say themselves and by directing you to near an hundred more may if not satisfy the curious yet weary the most inquisitive and industrious and having done that tho I wade not through shall dip a little into these Questions In that Age which was Ingeniorum ferax about our Saviour's Birth when it seem'd good to God to raise up in and adorn the World with Wits of the first Magnitude to usher in and attend upon the Incarnation of his eternal Wisdom such as Virgil Tully Ovid Horace liv'd L. Annaeus Seneca that excellent and I may say Divine Moralist and learned natural Philosopher who hath fine Discourses on this Subject lib. 3. of his natural Questions And few have gone beyond him notwithstanding the advantage of coming so long in time behind him The laborious and diligent Polonian Johan Jonstonus Thaumatographia naturalis Clasis secundae Capit. 4. de origine Fontium where you may meet with the Epitome of what our own Country-man Tho. Lydiat hath written most accutely on this Subject Voetius in his select Disputations both discusses the Questions relating to this matter and gives copious References Corn. a Lapide on Ecclesiastes 1.7 is large in both disputing it himself and in referring to the Greek and Latin Fathers and Philosophers What Alstedius says is in no wise despicable Encyclop lib. 13. Physicorum part 2. cap. 8. Regula 3. and part 4. c. 2. and lib. 18. Hydrograph cap. 6. I forbear to name Aristotle and those who follow the Tract of the old Philosophy or Cartesius and his Sectators in the new because they are well known to those who can or will puruse them and are referred to the first epecially in those I have nam'd already and tho it may seem an ignorant or culpable Omission to take no notice of the ingenious Mr. Thomas Burnet's new Theory of the Earth both in Latin and English I shall have occasion to mention him hereafter But not to tire my self and you with naming more the English Reader may meet with more Satisfaction than he could expect in so few Pages from any other Pen in the acurately learned and truly great Man the Author of Origines Sacrae lib. 3. cap. 4. § 6. whose great Happiness it is to speak much in a little and be short without Obscurity at once concise and perspicuous brief and clear And having before I hope satisfyingly prov'd that God made the Fountains Let me briefly touch the Way the Manner the Art by which that great and wise Artificer perform'd this Work produc'd and made them And to dismiss and wave the rest there are