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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

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

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

to fight against him Yet O Lord so inconquerable is thy Goodness that thy Patience seconds thy Bounty in continuing to us what our ill Deserts have forfeited as thou gav'st it freely without any good Desert of ours And not only in supplying our bare Necessities but furnishing of us for Convenience for Pleasure and Delight yea for recovery of those Distempers which we possibly have brought upon our selves by the abuse of thy own Blessings for the whole World is thy well-stor'd Shop and every Element is furnish'd with Supply The Air with Fowls the Water with Fish the Earth with small and great Cattel and with a numberless variety of Plants and Minerals and the Fire is the common Servant to them all to concoct their Crudities to dress and make them fit for Use and Nourishment Neither are they less apt for Physick than for Food for Medicine than for Meat To pass the rest in a grateful tho silent Admiration The Fountains are not only thy Cellars to quench our Thirst but thy Baths and thy Alimbecks where Almighty Goodness is the Operator and the God of Nature prevents the Trouble and Charge of Art O let this thy Goodness at length conquer the Obstinacy of our Rebellions that our Ingratitude and Provocations may never overcome thy Clemency and Patience that we may be so weary and asham'd of sinning against thee that thou mayest never be weary nor repent the doing of us good Amen MEDITAT V. Upon the Water of Jealousy Numbers the 5th THere are many righteous Laws and severe Threatnings in holy Scripture of the Execution of which we meet with no recorded Instance or Example Such is that of the rebellious Son being ston'd to death upon his Parents Complaint of him and testifying against him for his Disobedience Deut. 21.18 And that of the bitter Water to be drunk by the Wife of the jealous Husband which Water was to be mixt with the Dust of the Floor of the Tabernacle probably to make the Punishment Sins Anagram and to signify it should not fail of its dire Effects on them who trampled under foot the Authority of him who dwelt in it which caused her Belly to swell and Thigh to rot who was defiled Numb 5. There is a great Affinity and Likeness between God's Books of his Word and of his Works the Laws of both have righteous Sanctions either expressed or imply'd and tho we read not Examples of the Punishments of those who brake the first nor have observed instances of their Misery who have transgrest the latter yet assuredly wilful Offenders shall not escape the smart and burden of vindictive Justice O my Soul thy Maker is thy Husband provoke him not to Jealousy let not the Impunity of others imbolden thee they may feel that those surda verbera which thou canst take no notice of or he who sees their day is coming may reserve severer Wrath against that day What ever others do do thou thy Duty Love flows in these Waters make sutable returns of Love Provoke not him whose Help thou always needest and here most signally expectest not only lest thy Hopes abuse thee with a Disappointment but the expected Blessing be turn'd into a Curse and instead of opening Obstructions and yielding Help and Health they make thy Belly swell and occasion Sorrow Pain and Death MEDITAT VI. WHen I observe the great Quantities of Water drunk every Morning at these Wells it calls to my mind that Expression of David of some who drink Iniquity like Water Lust is a very thirsty and insatiable thing it never saith it is enough 't is an hydropick Sickness of the Soul the more it drinks the more it thirsts The Fountain of Corruption cannot be stopt it is impatient of a Damm If one Outlet be shut it will find or make another But O how poisonous how deadly are those draughts it swallows down with so greedy a delight We here drink innocent Healths But such Men drink much worse than Circean Cups their own Damnation How can any Sinner hope for impunity when every Sin carries its own Hell a bottomless desire after more And O most Righteous Lord 't is just and equal that they who have forsaken Thee the satisfying Fountain of Living Waters should weary themselves in their labouring after Disappointment in hewing out such broken Cisterns as can hold no Water O Thou who hast given me a Soul capable of thy Self and incapable of rest till it rest in thy self who art the Center of its Being and Desires draw me to thy Self fit me for thy Self fill me with thy Self give me to drink of those Waters of Paradise every drop of which is bigger than the Ocean Give me to hunger and thirst after Righteousness and I have the Security of his Word who cannot lie that I shall be satisfied that having a Well of Water in my self derived from thee the living Fountain I may thirst no more with an uneasy vexing deadly Thirst MEDITAT VII Ezek. 47.9 And every thing shall live whither the River cometh THe latter part of this Prophet is so dark that all Interpreters are ready to cry out as I remember Carthusianus doth when he comes to it I now enter into the thick darkness 'T is no wonder therefore that the heads of that River which brake out in those Regions of Obscurity should be more hidden than those of Nile yet undoubtedly this is that River which David saith makes glad the City of God and which he elsewhere calls the River of his Pleasure What can this be but those Waters of the Sanctuary which flow from the Throne of God and the Lamb the Graces and Comforts of thy Spirit O let that Blessed Spirit which proceedeth from the Father and the Son and whom the Nicene Creed teacheth us to call the Lord and Giver of Life come down upon us and effect more in and for our Souls than we expect or look for to our Bodies from the Waters of these Wells that by the coming of this River to us we may live the life of Grace here and may be fitted for the Life of Everlasting Glory hereafter MEDITAT VIII Upon 2 Kings 5.12 Are not Abana and Pharphar Rivers of Damascus better than all the Waters of Israel May I not wash in them and be clean and he went away in a rage With vers 17. Thy Servant will henceforth offer neither Burnt-Offering nor Sacrifice unto other Gods but unto the LORD THere 's not a greater difference betwixt the Waters in which he wash'd and the Fire by which he offered burnt Sacrifice than between the Sentiments and Language of the Syrian Leper and the cleansed Proselyte How did the Rage of his insolent Mind flame out at his disdainful Lips But when that Jordan which wash'd his Body had baptiz'd his Soul healing both with how sedate a Calmness and humble and resolved Firmness doth he devote himself to Israel's God and to the Rights of his before despised Worship Tho right

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