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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

ingrateful For whether you consider the Quantity it is stupendous or the Qualities they are most beneficial or their Motion it is wonderful All which do lead us by the Hand to the Admiration and Adoration of that God who is superlatively Great and Good to whom alone be everlasting Praises A SERMON ON REV. 14.7 And worship him that made the Fountains of Waters THE Words I have read and the Place where we are have so agreeable an Aspect upon each other that it needs no farther Intimation to shew what I design or aim at in the choice of them Nor will an Apology for my fixing on them be more necessary to any who will allow and who is not asham'd to disallow it that the Wisdom and Example of our Master CHRIST who is the essential Wisdom of the only wise God is the best and most Authentick Copy for all his Servants to write after For nothing is more notorious than that most of his Sermons were occasional preach'd upon visible Texts Improvements of earthly Objects to heavenly Purposes A Method which insensibly prepares the Auditors and innocently charms them to Attention without bespeaking it Such was that in the 4th of St. John to the Woman of Samaria who came to draw Water at Jacob's Well to stir up her desire after that living Water which he gives and of which whoever drinks shall thirst no more but it becomes in him a Well of Water springing up unto Everlasting Life And such was that in the sixth of the same Evangelist of the Bread of Life the true Bread which comes down from Heaven which he exhorts them to labour for from his observing how they followed him because he had fed them with the multiply'd Loaves I shall supercede more Instances lest I seem indecently to suspect your observing that which is so obvious and remarkable that he who runs may read it But it may possibly more need excuse that I have pitch'd upon a Passage in that Book which partly by its enigmatical prophetical Stile and partly by the Misadventures of those who have adventur'd to unriddle it seems like that little Book in the Angel's Hand Chap. 5.1 2 3. of which none on Earth have been found worthy to unloose the Seals and bless the World with a clear Interpretation of it But I hope this modest short Reply may suffice to remove that Prejudice What St. Augustin observ'd of the whole Scripture is applicable to this part of it the Apocalyps Tho there be depths in which the Elephant may swim there are also Shallows in which the Lamb may wade And tho its Prophecies are so profound we want a Line to sound and fathom them and must wait till Events and Completions their best and only infallible Interpreters render them intelligible and plain and which might be written not to gratify our Curiosity with the fore-Knowledg of what is future but to confirm their Faith who shall live to see them fulfill'd that they who see them come to pass may believe as our Saviour speaks on the like account St. John 14.29 Yet are there many doctrinal Truths and moral practical Duties in this very Book most easy plain and clear and no where to be found more intelligibly exprest or more positively asserted Such as are the Divinity of Christ The truth and efficacy of his Death and Resurrection that there are Eternal Rewards and Punishments for good and bad Men That the true God is only to be worshipped that he is to be adored and celebrated for his wonderful Works and for that Wisdom Power and Goodness which shines forth in them I might give many more Instances of the like kind and say of them all as St. Augustin doth expresly of many Passages in this Book Tanta luce dicta sunt ut nulla debeamus in literis sacris quaerere vel legere manifesta si haec putaverimus obscura See De Civitate Dei lib. 20. cap. 17. They are spoken with so much Light and Clearness that nothing in sacred Writ is to be esteemed plain and easy if these Truths be reckoned obscure and unintelligible But I need no other no clearer Instance than this Verse which contains the Sum of the everlasting Gospel which the Angel whom St. John saw in the preceding Verse flying in the midst of Heaven had to preach to all Nations Kindreds Tongues and People and he executes and discharges his Trust with great Faithfulness and Boldness with a loud Voice that all might hear in Isaiah's Phrase a Voice lift up like a Trumpet The main design and scope of his preaching is to call the World from their Idolatry to the Worship and Service of the true God only and to shew that in this consists the Life the Soul the Spirit of true Religion the Sum and Substance of the Gospel to admit no Competitors with God in the matter of his Worship The whole Sermon is reduceable to two Points The Duty exhorted to and the Motive by which that Duty is prest Both which are in their kind of the highest Importance no Duty can be more necessary and indispensible no Motive can be more cogent and irresistible The hour of his Judgment is come 't is spoken of in the present Tense to shew the immutable certainty shall as surely come as if it were come already And he that considers this and is not awakened by it is not restrained from worshipping what is not God and provoked effectually to serve and worship him hath an Heart harder than an Anvil or an Adamant The Duty is one for Substance but hath three Parts or Degrees preparatory or subservient to one another 1. Fear God 2. Give him Glory 3. Worship him To which last is added a most august Periphasis to describe him viz. Who made the Heaven the Earth the Sea and the Fountains The first prepares for the other two 1. The Fear of God is the Foundation and Corner-stone of all Religion Both David and Solomon assure us that 't is the Beginning the Head the Top of Wisdom even of that by which Men become wise unto Salvation 'T is the Character of the worst of Men to have no fear of God before their Eyes An awful Dread of the Divine Majesty is the greatest and best Restraint and Barrier against all Impiety Where this is remov'd or broken down the boldest Wickedness flows in as a Flood as a Torrent and bears down all before it When carnal Security hath erased the Notions of a Divine Being there 's no Impiety so bad and boundless into which Men will not run and rush And little hope remains that instituted and revealed Religion should avail where the very Seeds and Roots of all natural Religion are choak'd and pluck'd up They will never give God Glory who do not acknowledg his Being and Providence and retain not a deep Awe and profound Veneration for him 2. The second step or degree in the injoyned Duty is Give Glory to him This is the

or at least may be augmented such as are vulgarly call'd Land-springs from Rains and dissolved Snows soaking into and reserved in the prepared void Places or Caverns of the Earth which fail and dry up the times of Drought 7. 'T is of all Opinions most probable that the principal Fountains have their Origen from the Sea and great Abyss or huge store and treasury of Waters made and reserved in the deep Cellars of the Earth for that very end and purpose 8. 'T is very likely that the Fountain-Waters receive their several useful Qualities from the various Soils and Minerals through which they glide and imbibe and are impregnated by their different Properties while they are percollated and strained through them and become beneficial for Bathing or Potation outward or inward Application 9. 'T is probable that besides the second Causes God makes use of at least so far as any Philosophy hitherto hath or can give a full and satisfactory account God doth impress upon them and communicate to them immediately many of those useful Qualities by which they become so beneneficial to Mankind 10. Lastly whatever second Causes they proceed from or are rendred fit to be helpful and healthful by that is no prejudice to the main Truth that God makes them nor derogates ought from the Glory that is due to him for the making of them whether we consider them as ordinary Fountains for common use or extraordinary for Health and Cure of Distempers SERMON II. REV. 14.7 Worship him that made the Fountains of Waters LED by the Authority of our Lord's Example whose Sermons mostly were occasional preach'd upon visible Texts I singled out these Words as not unsuitable to this Assembly the Centre of which are the adjoyning Wells In the handling of them I reduced all I design'd to speak unto this easy Method To inquire 1. What is the sole Object adequate Reason and right Notion of Religious Worship 2. Who made the Fountains and in a short Digression how he made them 3. Why the Angel propounds him to be worship'd under that Notion Maker of the Fountains and how it may appear that this is a good and sufficient Reason to oblige us to it 4. To draw practical Inferences from the whole proper to us at this Time and Place The two former I have finish'd and sum'd up the philosophick part of my Discourse of the Origine of Fountains in ten Propositions To which Discouse my Subject almost necessitated me For as it had been a fault to have affected it and prest and drag'd it in reluctantly so had it been blame-worthy to have refus'd the Service it so freely and so fairly offered us to assist us in our main Hypothesis 'T was an Observation worthy that great Mans Wisdom who first made it I mean the wise Lord Verulam That a smattering in Philosophy disposes to Atheism but a deeper search into it and knowledg of it makes a good Divine and a better Christian We have a common saying Vbi desinit Philosophus ibi incipit Theologus what Philosophy begins Divinity finisheth I shall therefore now proceed to entertain you as becomes a Divine and Preacher in answering the third inquiry begging only those Allowances which are but equal to be given to one the obscurity of whose Station can hardly avoid contracting an habit of flat Expression and lower Notion I haste to the third and last Enquiry Why the Angel propounds him to be worship'd under this Notion Maker of the Fountains And how it may appear that this is a good and sufficient Reason to oblige us to it We may conceive a double Reason of it 1. To obviate the Superstition and Idolatry of the World which was used to worship the Fountains themselves All parts of the Creation were abus'd to Idolatry especially what appear'd most glorious and was found most beneficial As the Heavens and their Host the Sun Moon and Stars for their Beauty and Influences under the Names of Jupiter Apollo Juno Diana c. by the Romans and of Baal and Astaroth c. by the Eastern Nations so the Earth for its Fruitfulness by the Name of Ceres and Tellus And the Waters almost as much as any part of the World The Sea for its vastness by the Name of Neptune and the Rivers and Fountains for the many benefits they yielded for the perennity and constancy of their flowing which seem'd to resemble an eternal being and for the cool and shady places in which they mostly were which struck an aw and represented some kind of Sacredness Thus they had their Aquatick Goddess and Nymphs their Naiades which they supposed to dwell in them or preside over them Now as 't was usual to obviate the worship of the Host of Heaven by directing to worship him that made the Heavens and debasing the Gods that made them not The Gods which did not make the Heavens shall be destroy'd from under the Heavens Jer. 10.11 Which Verse was written in the Chaldee Tongue that the Babylonians might understand it tho all the rest of the Book be written in the Hebrew Language So to convince them of the evil of worshipping the Fountains and divert them from it he calls them to worship him that made them And we may see the more evident need of it if we consider of how large a spread this Superstition was and how deep root it had taken for there being so many Miranda and so great Beneficia so many stupendous and unaccountable natural Wonders and so many Advantages accruing to Men from Fountains of so various kinds we need not be surprized at it that they who worshipped every thing that was either very extraordinary or very beneficial to their Life or Health should idolize them And this continued so long and the World was so pertinacious in it that the Fathers of the Primitive Church were forc'd to preach and write most instantly and severely against it To name but one St. Aug. Serm. de Temp. 241. de Auguriis Nec ad Arbores debent Christiani vota reddere nec ad Fontem orare si se volunt per gratiam Dei de aeterno supplicio liberari Christians ought neither to pay Vows to Trees nor pray at or to the Wells if by the Grace of God they would be freed from Eternal Punishment And a little after Contestor vos coram Deo Angelis ejus ac de Nuncio ut nec ad illa diabolica Convivia quae aut ad fanum ad Fontesque aut ad aliquas Arbores fiant veniatis I adjure ye before God and his Angels that ye come not to those Diabolical Feasts which are made at Fountains and certain Trees And how many Superstitions have been us'd almost if not wholly to this very day about Fountains and the supposed tutelar Guardians of them is not unknown to many as might be instanced in the imaginary St. Richard at the salt Wells in Worcester-shire and many others elsewhere Now to obviate these evil Practices saith