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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

Dominion over us and esteeming him a Being so fully and absolutely perfect that in fruition of him we may be compleatly and absolutely happy and blessed Solus ille colendus est quo solo fruens beatus est cultor ejus quo solo non fruens omnis mens misera est qualibet re alia perfruatur Aug. lib. 20. contra Faustum Manich. cap. 5. He only is to be worshipped by injoying whom alone his Worshipper is made blessed and by the want of whom alone every Soul is miserable what ever else he doth enjoy In the second respect as it is an Act of our Will and Affections it implies our choice of him and adherence to him by loving fearing trusting and delighting in him submitting to him obeying and imitating of him as a Being which is the chiefest Good Great True Just Holy and the perfect Idea of all most amiable and desirable Excellencies Optimus cultus quem colis imitari saith Lactantius that is the most acceptable Worship to imitate and endeavour to be like him whom we worship Pietas cultus Dei est nec colitur ille nisi amando Aug. Epist 120. No Worship is accepted but what proceeds from Love 2. External Worship is that which expresses the inward Frame and Disposition of our Minds and Souls by apt and sutable signs of bodily Gestures as bowing our Knees uncovering our Heads Prostration of our Bodies confessing of him praying to him giving him Thanks with our Mouths and performing all the parts of his instituted Worship according to his Will and Word for not only the second Commandment requires this but the Light of Nature for Socrates a heathen Philosopher could say Vnumquemque Deum sic coli oportet quomodo se ipse colendum praeceperit Every God ought to be worshipp'd as he commands himself to be worshipp'd So that the Worship of God reaches to and is to be performed by the whole inward and outward Man and we must thereby glorify him in our Bodies and our Spirits which are both his 1 Cor. 6.20 first with our Spirits and Minds knowing acknowledging and esteeming him as a Being absolutely perfect and all-sufficient most able and willing to help and make us happy Secondly Loving him fearing him trusting in him as most good and great and true c. Thirdly With our Bodies by all those reverential Gestures which are proper Signs and Indications of the right Frame and Disposition of our Hearts towards him and this last seems to be implied in the very Notation of the Greek Word here used προσκυνήσατε which is as some say derived from the Verb κύω osculor to kiss because it was the Custom of the Eastern Nations to worship by kissing the Hand the Knee c. Psal 2. Kiss the Son c. Hos 13.2 Let the Men that sacrifice kiss the Calves Or else from κυὼν Canis a Dog from the humble Posture of a Spaniel lying at and licking of his Masters Feet For things in their own Nature low and mean may afford Allusions to and be Illustrations of matters of the highest and greatest moment and importance It implies a willing Acknowledgment of his Heighth and our Lowness his Dominion and our Subjection his All-sufficiency and our Indigency Thus much for the first Particular propounded the Sum of which is this That the true God must be worshipp'd with our Spirit Soul and Body and whatever proves him to be such is a good and sufficient Reason to engage us to perform such Worship to him whether it proceed from him as the God of Nature or of Grace II. The second thing propounded to be inquired into was Who made the Fountains of Waters and how he made them that we may both try and prove his Title to Religious Adoration upon that account The Solution of the first Branch of this Enquiry is easy by the Principles of Divinity but the second is more difficult by the Principles of Philosophy To the first therefore I may answer briefly The true God made them which the holy Scriptures both assert and prove 1. They assert it Prov. 8. seems both to be very express and very emphatical for there Solomon brings in Wisdom that is Christ the essential Wisdom of God asserting and proving his own eternal Being and everlasting Subsistence And he proves it by a double Medium or two Arguments first because he was before God's oldest Works Secondly because he was present at the making of them The first he does in five Verses from the 22d to 26 inclusively Vers 22. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his Ways before his Works of old Then he enumerates and gives Instances of those Works as the Earth Vers 23. I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the Earth was Next in the Depth and Fountains Vers 24. When there were no Depths was I brought forth when there were no Fountains abounding with Water Where the Earth the Depths and the Fountains of Waters are expresly call'd his Works yea the most ancient the earliest the first-born of his Works which he glories in being known by as the Father and Maker of them The second Argument by which he proves the Eternity of his Subsistence is That he was present with God when he prepared the Heavens stablished the Clouds above and strengthned the Fountains of the deep where the making the Fountains is as directly ascribed to him as the making of the Heavens This place is so full and clear it might suffice alone with the Text without adding more The Spirit of Christ speaking by the Mouth of Solomon gives us assurance that his Father made the Fountains And David saith no less for speaking of God he saith Psal 104.10 He sendeth forth his Springs into the Valleys which run among the Hills they are his Springs and he sends them forth Psal 107.33 35. He turneth the Rivers into a Wilderness and the Water-Springs into dry Ground Then again He turneth the Wilderness into a standing-water and dry Ground into Water-Springs Isa 35.6 7. In the Wilderness shall Waters break out and Streams in the Desert and the parched Land shall become a Pool and the thirsty Land Springs of Water And let it be suppos'd and granted that these Expressions are figurative and signify the pouring out of his Spirit in the Graces and Comforts of it upon desolate and weary Souls yet the thing must be first true in the literal and natural Sence that God can and doth perform such things in the course of Nature and Providence and can and will do what is like them in the Operations of his Grace Again Isa 41.18 I will open Rivers in high places and Fountains in the midst of the Valleys I will make the Wilderness a Pool of Water and the dry Land Springs of Water And in the Canticle Benedicite omnia opera commonly called the Song of the three Children which in our Liturgy is appointed to be said or sung after the first Lesson at

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

nor any Inconvenience to us but prove useful and beneficial to us for the continuance restauration and confirmation of Health to our frail Bodies And as we beg thy leave to use thy Grace to use aright and thy Blessing upon the use of these Waters of the nether Springs So with humble earnestness we beg that the Waters of the Sanctuary which flow from the Throne of the Lamb of God the promised Floods of thy holy Spirit may be plentifully poured forth upon us to refresh to satisfie to cleanse to heal our parched weary and polluted Souls that so both with our Bodies and our Spirits which thou hast made by thy Power and bought with the price of thy Son's Blood we may glorify Thee our great Creator and gracious Redeemer for ever Amen II. O most holy Lord God who tho Thou art most merciful in providing relieving Remedies for thy Creatures yet art most jealous of thy Glory and expectest to be owned and acknowledged in all the Works of thy Power and Goodness to the Sons of Men. We pray thee raise up our Hearts by these Waters and beyond the Virtues of them to thy Self whose Providence hath made them what they are And as we abhor that gross Idolatry of worshipping the likeness of any thing that is in the Waters under the Earth So we pray thee preserve us from a more refined but not less criminal Idolatry of placing our Confidence in their Qualities and Virtues and forgetting Thee the Maker of them lest we provoke Thee to withdraw the Blessing we expect and inflict the Curse we have cause to fear and to make them the Instruments of thy Vengeance because we made them the Objects of our Trust and Occasions of thy Jealousie Grant this O Lord for Christ his sake Amen III. O most gracious God who delightest in Mercy and pardonest Iniquity Transgression and Sin We thy poor sinful Creatures humbly cast down our selves before thee begging the Forgiveness of our Offences which may justly cause thee to with-hold good things from us yea to turn our Blessings into Curses that what is made for the good of others might become to us a Snare and occasion of falling But we beseech thee deal not with us according to our deserts but bless to us the use of these Waters that we may receive those Benefits by them for which we may have great cause to honour love and serve thee for ever And we pray thee give us good Hearts to do accordingly for thy Mercy sake Amen IV. O Lord who art the Fountain of living Waters we confess with shame we have forsaken Thee and have hewen out to our selves empty and broken Cisterns which can hold no Water for which it might be just with thee to forsake and cast us off for ever But good Lord convince us of this Folly pardon and turn us from it Do us good by these Wells we daily see and taste of and open our Eyes as thou didst the Eyes of Hagar to see those Wells of Salvation which are hid from all but those to whom thou art pleased to shew them and help us with joy to draw from thence what may so suffice and satisfie us that we may thirst no more Amen V. Almighty God the Fountain of all Goodness we reade that thy Manna relisht agreeably and pleased the various Palats of all that ate it O that these Waters may profit every person that drinks of them how different so ever the Distempers are for which they drink them That thy Wisdom and Power may more signally appear by thy producing such various Effects from one and the same single Cause And help us all who drink of one Well to be knit together in the Bond of true Christian Charity and to praise thee for the Mercies thou bestowest on our selves and for the Mercies thou vouchsafest unto others as heartily as for our own for Christ his sake who is our common Head Amen VI. O most blessed Lord God who givest thy Blessings and alone canst bless thy Gifts We beseech thee remove thy Curse which our Sins have deserved from us from all our Injoyments and particularly from these Waters we are gathered hither to make use of and let thy Blessing so accompany and follow our drinking of them that we may be both obliged and inabled to praise thy Name through Christ our Lord. Amen VII O most gracious God who hast made a gracious Promise that all things shall work for the good of them that love thee ingraft in our Hearts such love to thy Name as may intitle us to this good Promise And altho we have forfeited our present Comforts and future Expectations of Good yet take not the Forfeitures we have made but crown with continual Patience thy former Bounty and add new Favours and suffer none of us where and while we seek for help and Ease and Health and Life to meet with Pain or Sorrow Sickness Death and Judgment But by by these Waters heal our Diseases and by a better Fountain purge away and pardon all our Sins through Jesus Christ our Lord and only Mediator Amen VIII O Lord our God who art the inexhaustible Fountain of all both spiritual and temporal good things for our Souls and for our Bodies we lift up our Hearts and Hands to Thee in Heaven for a merciful Supply of all our inward and outward Wants and that Thou wouldst sanctify and bless to us all those Supplies thy Goodness doth vouchsafe us both for our Souls and Bodies whether for Meat or Medicine and particularly these Waters that they may do us much good and no hurt and for all the benefits we receive from Thee we pray thee inable us to render to Thee such returns of Service Love and Thankfulness as Thou mayest expect and wilt accept through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen IX O most mighty God who makest the Fountains of Waters those in the Fields and Deserts as Thou art the God of Nature and that in thy Church the Fountain of our Baptism as Thou art the God of Grace We most humbly beseech Thee baptize us with the Holy Ghost and let it be the constant study of our lives to keep the Covenant we made with Thee in our Baptism and to exemplify it by such a Conversation as becomes the Gospel receiving by Faith the good Promises thou hast made to us and making good with faithfulness the Promises we then made to Thee to thy Glory the good example of all our fellow-Christians and the Comfort and Salvation of our Souls by Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen X. O most merciful Lord God who hast opened a Fountain for Sin and for Uncleanness in the Side in the Heart of thy own dear Son whom Thou sentest into this World to save his People from their Sins from all their Sins and all that is in Sin O let nothing be in vain to our Souls of all that he hath done or suffered instituted or ordained for his Peoples good

Justify us freely in his Blood sanctify us throughly by his Spirit and let him be made of God to us Wisdom to preserve us from the deceitfulness of Sin Sanctification to deliver us from the filthiness of Sin Redemption to free us from the bondage and dominion of Sin and Righteousness to save us from the guilt and damnation of Sin that we may never perish but have Everlasting Life All which we beg for his sake who is thy Christ and our Jesus to whom with thy Self and thy eternal Spirit be ascribed everlasting Praise and Glory for evermore Amen The end of the Prayers Forms of Thanksgiving I. O LORD most Mighty the great Creator of all things in Heaven and Earth whose Works are the Witnesses of Thy Being and of the adorable Perfections of thy Nature We bless and magnify thy glorious Name for all thy wondrous Works for making the Heavens and their Host the Earth and its Store the Sea and all the Waters in it and that spring from it and in particular for making these Healing Fountains for making known their Virtues for giving us liberty to use them and for any Blessing formerly or at this season vouchsafed to us by the use of them And we pray Thee to crown these Mercies with one better than the rest even so thankful an Heart as may improve all to thy Glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen II. O Lord who art good and dost good We bless thy glorious Name for what thou art and what thou do'st for the Healing Fountain of thy free Grace and for the free Fountain of these Healing Waters for the Blessings of thy Throne and of thy Footstool for our Life and for our Livelihood for our Food and for our Physick for the Waters of the upper and the nether Springs for all thy Fountains and for all their Streams Good Lord create one Fountain more even a Fountain of Love and Thankfulness in all our Hearts and cause it to flow with constant streams of Obedience and Praise which may be acceptable in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen III. O Lord who art pleased to declare That who-so offereth Thee Thanks and Praise honoureth Thee Accept our unfeigned desires to honour Thee by giving thee Thanks and Praise with our whole Hearts and our whole Souls for thy manifold and inestimable Mercies vouchsafed unto us Not unto us Lord not unto us but to thy holy Name be given Glory We are less than the least of thy Mercies We deserved none before we had them we have forfeited all since we had them yet art thou pleased of thy Astonishing Goodness to give us new Instances of Mercy every day Lord give us a renewed sense of them all and an holy Zeal with humble Hearts to honour Thee for them all through Him by whom they are conveyed to us that is thy Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Amen IV. O Almighty and infinitely gracious Lord God we desire to fear Thee to give Thee Glory and to worship Thee that madest the Heaven and the Earth and the Sea and the Fountains of Water and for making these in particular of which we drink daily with so much satisfaction and expectation of relief We beseech Thee let not our Provocations disappoint our Hopes but pardon those and nourish these and crown them with a blessed success that we may ever give Thee Thanks and live thy Praises through Christ our Lord. Amen V. What shall we render to the Lord for all his Benefits Let us take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord most high But who can shew forth all his Praises who can reckon up the Mercies of one Water-season Our safe Arrival under his Protection from our Habitations needful Conveniences in this place for Soul and for Body for daily Worship and for daily Bread O Lord we bless thee that we have so many Mercies to bless thee for that we have an House a Chappel built to bless thee in O let us not want Hearts to bless thee with for Christ his sake Amen VI. O Lord our God whose Power Wisdom and Goodness are signally manifested in making the Fountains of Waters We praise thee for these and all other Manifestations of thy Almighty Power unsearchable Wisdom and inexhaustible Goodness And we beseech thee help us to walk before thee as become those who do indeed believe Thee to be such by fearing thee for thy Power following the conduct of thy Wisdom and loving thee for thy Goodness and all the Manifestations of it both by thy Providence and Grace Grant this O most merciful Father for the sake of thy dearest Son and our dearest Lord and Saviour to whom with thy self and thy most blessed Spirit be ascribed everlasting Honour Praise and Glory Amen VII Almighty Lord God who by thy Power and Wisdom hast made the Fountains of the great Deep and out of the depth of thy Mercy that Fountain of Baptism the Waters of which thou hast consecrated to the mystical washing away of Sin We most heartily bless thee for creating us after thy Image for our being born in the bosom of thy Church of Christian Parents in whose right and by whose care we were dedicated to thee in holy Baptism and after brought up in the true Religion We beseech thee baptize us by the Holy Ghost Wash us from the guilt and filth of all our Sins Justify us freely Sanctify us throughly Create in us O Lord a clean Heart and renew in us a right Spirit In our Baptismal Waters inable us to quench all the fiery Darts of the Devil and to wash off all the Defilements of our sinful Flesh and to dissolve all the Snares of the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World all which we have solemnly renounced And let the same Waters so moisten our Hearts that they may be fruitful in Faith Repentance and new Obedience that we may walk before thee in Righteousness and true Holiness all our days To the Glory of God the Father who created us and God the Son who redeem'd us and God the Holy Ghost who we hope hath sanctified us to whose Name we were consecrated and to promote whose Glory is not less our Interest than it is our Duty to which undivided Trinity and eternal Unity be everlasting Praise and Adoration Amen Short Meditations and Ejaculations to be used whilst the Waters are drinking HOW early do we rise to drink these Waters In the Morning shall my Prayer prevent thee O thou whose Compassions are new every morning No Man can tell the Date of these Fountains nor can any Man foretell their Period Yet are they but as yesterday to Him who is yesterday to day and the same for ever Who was who is and is to come How many Glasses have been drunk from these Wells how much more Water hath run waste how many yet remain in their pregnant Womb and how many Millions of Drops would these amount to yet

all those Drops with all the Sands of these sandy Desarts would not equal the Years of that Eternity to which O my Soul thou hastenest so fast These rich Wells are in a low Valley surrounded with high sandy dry and barren Hills The meek and lowly God will inrich with his Grace He resists the Proud and gives Grace to the Humble The method of our Water-drinking is instructive We begin with fewer Glasses and rise gradually till we arrive at a due Proportion this we should imitate We must grow in Grace go from Strength to Strength The way of the Just is as the Morning-Light which shineth more and more unto the perfect Day A Christian should know no Period but Perfection He that thinks he hath Grace enough may thereby be convinced he hath too little When we are going off we then decrease our Number this we must avoid 't is bad to stand at a stay for not to go forward is to go backward in the things of God But to decline sadly forebodes our final going off That Question of our Lord Where are the nine was a cutting and upbraiding one Ten were healed and but one among them was found thankful How mean and despicable soever I am Lord make me truly humble and thankful 'T is better to be a grateful Samaritan than a graceless Israelite Lord bless these Waters to us Lord give us leave to use them And Lord give us both Cause and Hearts to be thankful for them O thou maker of the Fountains make these useful to us all who drink of them Lord give us to drink plenteously of the Wells of Salvation O Lord who givest these Waters without our asking We humbly ask thy Blessing upon the use of them O thou Fountain of Living Waters evermore give us of those Streams which flow from thee Give us this day our daily Bread whatever is needful for Health or Strength whether Food or Physick Impregnate these Waters O Lord with thine own Goodness Lord let us have the use of these Waters by thy Leave and a Blessing upon them by thy Love Lord suffer us not to provoke thee to Anger where we come to seek Relief from thee O Lamb of God from under whose Throne flow Living Waters wash away our Sins by those Waters O thou Son of God who wast with thy Father when as yet there were no created Fountains abounding with Water Manifest that Love to me which flows from the eternal Fountain of free Grace and that Love wherewith thou lovedst thine before the World was Lord remove that Curse our Sins have deserved these Waters should be imbittered by and sweeten them with Blessings we neither have nor can deserve from thee Good Lord help us to improve for thee all the Mercies we here or elsewhere receive or hope for from thee Ejaculatory Praises BLessed be the Maker of these Fountains for all that Power Wisdom Goodness manifested in the making of them Blessed be God for any Blessing now or formerly received by them O thou Fountain of Goodness who art Good and dost Good we praise thee for all the Good thou ever didst for any by these Good Fountains O that we could praise thee as thankfully as thou givest these Waters freely Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me bless his holy Name Bless the Lord O my Soul and forget not all his Benefits who forgiveth all thy Sins and healeth all thy Diseases O all ye Works of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever O ye Tunbridg-Wells bless ye the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever O let all who ever received Benefit by the Waters of these Wells bless the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever O my Soul bless thou the Lord praise him and magnify him for ever Blessed be God for all the natural and supernatural Fountains he hath made as the God of Nature as the God of Grace Blessed be God for making us and blessed be God for making all things for us blessed be God for Springs of Common Water and of Mineral Waters for the Fountain of free Grace and for the Covenant of Grace for his Son and for his Spirit for his Word and for his Sacraments for all the means of Grace and hopes of Glory Amen FINIS Books lately printed for Nathaniel Ranew at the King's-Arms in St. Paul's Church-Yard THE Works of Josephus with great Diligence revised and amended according to the excellent French Translation of Monsieur D'ANDILLY Also the Embassy of Philo Judaeus to the Emperor Caligula with the References of Scripture a Map of the Holy Land and divers other Copper Plates The Principles of Christian Religion with a large Body of Divinity methodically and familiarly handled by way of Question and Answer for the use of Families together with Immanuel or the mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God By the most Reverend James Vsher late Arch-bishop of Armagh to which is now added in this seventh Edition twenty Sermons preach'd at Oxford before the King and elsewhere with the Life of the Author and an Alphabetical Table never before extant Redemption of Time the Duty and Wisdom of Christians in evil Days Or A Practical Discourse shewing what special Opportunities ought to be redeemed what Mispences of Time are to be avoided with convincing Reasons quickening Motives and proper Directions for the right Improvement of precious Time By John Wade Minister of Hammersmith