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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

forc'd and if it be stopt of one side it will find Passage in another Love fears nothing dares all things conquereth all things thinks nothing hard or impossible to it self Lastly a lesser Love will yield to none but to that Love that 's greater and more mighty so carnal Love whether it pursue the Riches or Delights of the World will only yield unto the Love of God As soon as the Water of the holy Spirit begins to drop into the Heart of any Man forthwith carnal Love begins to wax cold Blessed Augustine may be our Witness who being accustomed to indulge his Lust and held it impossible for him to live without a Female Consort yet when he began to taste the Grace of the holy Spirit cry'd out in the ninth Book of his Confessions How sweet did it presently become to me to want the Suavities of Trifles and the loss of those that were my greatest Fear now was my Joy to be rid off for thou didst cast them out who art thy self the true and highest Sweetness thou didst cast them out and didst thy self enter in their stead who art sweeter than all Pleasure but not to Flesh and Blood brighter than all Light but more inward than any Secret higher than all Honour but not to the high-minded CHAP. III. FUrther Water slakes the Thirst and nothing but this heavenly Water can put an end to the various most troublesome and almost infinite desires of the Hearts of Men. So Truth it self speaking to the Samaritan Woman hath taught us John 4.13 Whosoever drinketh of this Water shall thirst again but whosoever shall drink of the Water that I shall give him shall never thirst And the case is plainly this The Eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the Ear filled with hearing Eccles 1.8 What ever can be offered to a Man cannot satiate his desire seeing he is capable of infinite Good and all created things are finite but he that begins to drink of celestial Water in which are comprehended all things desires nothing seeks for nothing more CHAP. IV. WAter conjoyns and brings into one the things that seem impossible to be united So many Grains of Bread-Corn by mixture of Water are made one Loaf and of many Particles of Earth by adding Water to them Bricks are made but much more easily and indissolubly the Water of the holy Spirit causeth many Men to become one Heart and one Soul as is spoken in the Acts of the Apostles Chap. 4.22 of the first Christians on whom the Holy Ghost had immediately before descended And our Lord when going to his Father both commended and foretold this Unity which the Water of the holy Spirit maketh when he saith John 17.20 Neither pray I for these alone but for them also that shall believe on me through their Word that they all may be one as thou Father art in me and I in thee that they also may be one in us And a little after that they may be one even as we are one I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one To which Unity also the Apostle exhorts in his Epistle to the Ephesians Chap. 4.3 Endeavouring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace There is one Body and one Spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your Calling O happy Union which makes many Men to be one Body of Christ which is govern'd by one Head and eats of one Bread and drinks of one Cup and lives of one Spirit and cleaving to God is made one Spirit with him What can a Servant more desire than that he should not only be made partaker of all his Lord's Goods but also by the indissoluble Bond of Love be made one with him his almighty and most wise and most beautiful Lord But all this does the Grace of the holy Spirit effect as living and enlivening Water when it is devoutly received in the Heart and preserv'd with all Diligence and sollicitous Care CHAP. V. LAstly Water ascends so high as it descends from above and because the holy Spirit comes down from the highest Heaven upon Earth therefore in that Man in whose Heart he is receiv'd he becomes a Fountain of Water springing up into Eternal Life as our Lord speaks to the Woman of Samaria that is to say a Man born again of Water and the holy Spirit and hath the same Spirit dwelling in his Heart lifts up thither the Fruits of his Grace from whence that Grace descended therefore O my Soul being taught and excited by these Words of Scripture say to thy Father again and again with groanings that cannot be utter'd Give me this Water which may scour off all my Spots which may quench the heat of Concupiscence which may satisfy all Thirst and all Desires which may make thee one Spirit with thy God which may become in thee a Well of Water springing up to eternal Life that thou mayest send thy Services thither before where thou hopest thy self to abide to endless Ages Not without cause did the Son of God say You being evil know how to give good Gifts to your Children how much more shall your Father in Heaven give his good Spirit to them that ask it And he said not will give Bread or Raiment or Wisdom or Charity or the Kingdom of Heaven or eternal Life but he said will give his good Spirit because in that all things are contain'd Thou therefore cease not daily to mind the Father of his Son's Promise and to say with mighty Affection and an undoubted hope of obtaining O holy Father not in confidence of mine own Righteousness but trusting in the Promise of thine only begotten Son do I pour out my Prayers to thee 'T was he that said to us How much more shall your Father give his good Spirit to them that ask him assuredly thy Son which is Truth it self cannot deceive therefore fulfil the Promise of thy Son who glorified thee upon Earth being every where obedient unto Death even the Death of the Cross give thy holy Spirit to me who ask it give me the Spirit of thy Fear and Love that thy Servant may fear nothing but to offend thee and may love nothing besides thee and his Neighbour in thee Create in me a clean Heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me Cast me not away from thy Presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me Restore unto me the Joy of thy Salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit Psal 51.10 11 12. CHAP. VI. I Come now to the Similitude the Fountains of Water have with God for from hence the Mind may be raised up to the Contemplation of the truly wonderful and excellent Perfections of him that made them For not without just cause is God in holy Scripture called The Fountain of Life and the Fountain of Wisdom and Fountain of living Water Psal 35. Eccles 1. Jer. 2.13 And that he is the very Fountain of being

Spring of Life for himself in holy Scripture often intimates so much I live saith the Lord and the Prophets often repeat The Lord liveth The Lord liveth and in Jeremy God complains of his People saying They have forsaken me the Fountain of Living Water and yet he is mov'd neither of himself nor of any other I the Lord change not Mal. 3. and elsewhere God is not a Man that he should lie nor the Son of Man that he should repent or be changed And there is a Hymn sung daily in the Latin Church to this effect God who strongly all maintainest In thy self unmov'd remainest Bounding the times of each days light With the succession of the Night And altho God begets his Son he begets him without change altho he sees hears speaks loves pities judges he does all without Mutation altho he creates and preserves things or on the contrary destroys and scatters them and again renews and changeth them yet he works resting and changeth other things without being mov'd how therefore does he live if he move not himself And how lives he not if he be the Fountain and Author of Life This knot is easily untied this is absolutely sufficient to Life if the thing that lives act of it self and be not moved by another But Life for the most part in created things is a Principle of inward Motion because created things are imperfect and want many things to perform the Functions of Life but God is infinite Perfection and needs nothing out of himself wherefore he indeeds acts of himself and not moved by another but has no need of Motion or Change needs not Motion or Mutation Created things need Change that they may generate and be generated because they beget out of themselves and the thing that is begotten must be chang'd from not being into being but God begets his Son within himself and within himself proceeds his holy Spirit and neither the Son or Holy Ghost ought to be chang'd from not being unto being because they receive that Being that always was and that they receive not in time but in Eternity Created things want motion of Encrease because they were born imperfect but God the Son is born most perfect and God the Holy Ghost is breath'd forth also and produc'd most perfect Created things need the motion of Alteration that they may obtain the various Qualities they want but God wants nothing seeing his Essence is of infinite Perfection Created things want local motion because they are not every-where but God is every-where wholly Further Created things that they may see that they may hear that they may speak that they may work want many things because tho indeed they have Life yet it is imperfect and very poor but God wants nothing out of himself that he may see all things hear all speak to all and work all in all because he not only hath Life but the Life he hath is most opulent and happy and he himself is Life and the Fountain of Life And that we may give an Example in the act of seeing a Man that he may see must have a visive Power which is distinct from the Soul which properly lives he must have an Object some colour'd Body plac'd without himself he must have the Light of the Sun or some other luminous Body he must have a Medium some diaphanous Body he must have a sensible Species which may be carried from the Object to the Eye he must have a corporal Organ that is an Eye sitly made of various Humours and fleshy Tunicles he must have sensitive Spirits and optick Nerves through which those Spirits may pass he must have a duly proportion'd distance and after all must apply his Power to the act of Seeing Behold how many helps both Men and other Creatures want that they may perform one vital Action but God who truly hath Life wholly in himself wants nothing at all His infinite Essence is to him Power Object Species Light and all things else of himself and by himself and in himself God sees and clearly discovers all things which are which have been which shall be and which can be and before the World was made God saw all things neither did any thing new accrue unto his Sight or Knowledg by the Creation of all things What therefore shalt thou be O my Soul when thou shalt be partaker of his Life what great matter does God command thee when he requires thee to lay down this corporal this animal Life which is so imperfect and full of wants for thy Brethren and for God himself that thou mayest be made partaker of Eternal Life which is most rich and blessed And if it be a small matter he requires when he requires thee to despise Life how very light and little should it seem when he bids thee to distribute thy dead Riches liberally to the Poor to abstain from carnal Lusts truly to renounce the Devil and his Pomps and with thy whole Heart to breath after that Life which alone is Life indeed and Truth CHAP. VIII BUT now 't is time that as well as we can we ascend unto the Fountain of Wisdom The Fountain of Wisdom is the Word of God in the highest saith Ecclesiasticus and well he said in the Highest because the Fountain of Wisdom abundantly and copiously flows forth upon the holy Angels and the Souls of the Blessed whose Habitations are the highest Heavens To us who are conversant in this Pilgrimage and Desart not so much Wisdom it self as a slight scent and shadow of it is attainable Wherefore O my Soul affect not things too much above thee search not the Majesty lest thou be oppressed of the Glory Admire his Wisdom of whom the Apostle speaks To God only wise Rom. 16. and gratulate those blessed Souls that drink out of the Fountain of Wisdom and tho they cannot comprehend God which is proper to the Fountain of Wisdom it self yet they see the Face of God that is of the first cause without any interposed Vail and being irradiated by the Beams of his Brightness can judg rightly of all things and in that noon-day Light of Wisdom fear neither the Darkness of Errors nor Obscurity of Ignorance nor the Dimness of Opinions Aspire O my Soul unto that Happiness And that thou mayest safely attain it love with all thy Heart the Lord Jesus Christ in whom are hidden all the Treasures of the Knowledg and Wisdom of God Col. 2.3 for he hath said in his Gospel He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and manifest my self to him John 14.21 And what else doth this signifie I will manifest my self to him but I will manifest all the Treasures of the Knowledg and Wisdom of God which lie hid in me Assuredly every Man naturally desires to know and tho carnal Lusts do in many lull these desires asleep yet when we have put off this Body that corrupts and presses down our Soul

of baptized ones this dyes them of a deeper Purple than those of Tyre and Sidon Sodom and Gomorrah These mineral Waters may by many things put to them lose both their Taste and Virtue in the Chymist Phrase be precipitated that tho they are drunk they neither heal nor help Every deliberate and wilful Sin desecrates the Waters which were consecrated to the mystical washing away of Sin Precipitates baptismal Waters that their Virtue subsides and sinks to the bottom of the Font that tho they still may wet they will not wash though they may be sprinkled they will not cleanse How unpardonable an Affront would it be to this honourable Company if any should be so impudently rude or wicked as to pollute or poison these Wells we come to drink of What is it then to abuse that Blood of sprinkling by which we were sanctified and to do despite to that Spirit of Grace which over-shadows these sacred Waters An involuntary innocent staining of the Font hath branded an imperial Name in all succeeding Ages Leo Coproninus The casting of a dead Dog into a Well which was the only supply for the Garrison which kept it lost one of the strongest and most impregnable Forts Stetguard Our voluntary sinning after and against our Baptism poisons the very Font casts a dead Dog into the Well of Grace nay is an actual surrender into his Hands whom we have renounced and should stand in defiance of for ever I beseech you I adjure you therefore worship that God which made the Font of your Baptism by a sound believing of the good Promises he made to you and making good the Promises you there made to him for as there is no greater cause of the decay of Christian Piety than the not understanding or forgetting our Baptismal Covenant and the indispensable Obligation it brings us under to Faith Repentance and unreserved new Obedience so there is no Remedy more likely to retrieve its Honour and to restore the power of it in the World than a daily serious remembring of it and hearty desire and study to live up to it 5. If we must worship him love serve adore him that made the Fountains and made the Font how much more him that made the Source and Spring of that very Fountain that Fountain opened for Sin and for Vncleanness Zech. 13.1 the Blood the Spirit of Christ When Longinus as Tradition names him with that accursed Spear pierced the Side and Heart of our most blessed Lord yet hanging on that more accursed Tree forthwith there came out Blood and Water John 19.34 The Church hath always reckon'd these the vital Springs of the Health-giving Sacraments Christ calls himself the living Water John 4. and he calls the Spirit by the same Name John 7.38 39. He that believes in me out of his Belly shall flow Rivers of living Water this spake he of the Spirit And 't is agreeable to his Father's Language Psal 44.3 I will pour Water upon him that is thirsty and Floods upon the dry Ground I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed Isa 44.3 If the love of God in giving his Son be set forth so emphatically with an ἑςτως God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son so freely so fully so inconceivably as no Tongue can express as no Heart can conceive with what Fervours of Love and Thankfulness should we receive it and return it 6. Worship him that is not only the Maker of the Fountains but the very Fountain of all things ὁ ῶν the Fountain of living Waters Jer. 2.13 The Fountain of our Being in whom we live and move and have our Being and for whom as well as by whom we were all made God made us all to worship himself for he made the World to manifest his Glory that he might be known to be and to be such as indeed he is and have the Glory of being such and to give him that Glory which is peculiar to intelligent Natures is properly to worship him And the Fountain of all our Temporal Spiritual and Eternal Mercies present future all we have and all we hope for Nay the Fountain of the very Deity as the Schools call God the Father Fontem Dietatis who communicates the Divine Nature to the Son and Holy Ghost as Light and Heat flow from the Body of the Sun tho they abide in it and be one with it Lastly If all must worship him that made the Fountains Then they especially who have built him an House for his Worship at these famous Fountains And it will be little better then a mocking of him to erect him an House for his Worship and to neglect that Worship for which it was erected And tho I am very far from imposing Laws or prescribing Rules to this Honourable Assembly yet give me leave with that modest freedom which becomes my Office to remind you of somewhat at least very unseemly and which I charitably hope proceeds solely or chiefly from want of Consideration You exactly understand all the Punctilio's of Honour all the Measures of what is Decent Just and Fit Let me therefore appeal to you what Respect what Deference is due to God who is and calls himself a Great King How comely it would be or rather how uncomely 't is to do the contrary not to continue your Gaming upon the very spot in time of Publick Prayer I beseech you if you will not joyn with us in our solemn Worship yet modestly forbear to affront it and Him to whom we pay it Give me leave to conclude with one more humble Motion 'T is an express Branch of Divine Worship to build God an House 't will be no less to indow it now 't is built An easy Liberality from New comers who find a Chappel ready prepar'd by our Charge and Care not excluding the pious Charity of those who have already given to its building may settle a decent Maintenance for an Able Minister constantly to offioiate in it and preach to the Neighbouring Inhabitants all the Year 'T is a certainly desolate place in the depth of Winter still notwithstanding the many fair Houses which are lately built And the badness of the Ways and distance of the Churches I fear occasions in many too great a neglect of God's Worship and their own Souls Had they an Able Minister to reside constantly among them the Wo of dwelling in this Mesech would be much abated and these Deserts would become a Mount Sion and these Tents of Kedar like the Curtains of Solomon an Emblem of Jerusalem We of the Clergy who come hither for preservation or recovery of Health give you our Labors freely tho we have no cause to be asham'd of what we gave to the Erection of the Place we labour in And you may the better bear with us while in the behalf of them that serve us here we plead with you to leave a Blessing behind you That as God hath endow'd these Wells with lasting