The worth ofthe WaterofLi{e. rhe*ink , or Willyou cal your ajfeaionsvpantbat adetib fanothing? This is the ef- frct or the Prophets reproofe : If he were alinenow , bee would (as bee well might) vfe the fame words. There is indeede muchto doe in theworld ar this d,y,och eras, Ring, nuts plotting, much contending, and weedoe all beftirre ourfelu s as though rhe daft of the earth were not fufficient for euery man to ráke a !Tindall! : one manbuyeth and purchafcth, and s ioynethhoafe ròhaute, and g Ira 0. field tepid, that he may be placed by himlelfe,tobe a little King in his owne ter- ritories : anothercosecs 'fields, and takes them by violence, and heufes, andtakes h themaway, and fóeppre(erhaman andhù haute, even a man andhis heritage: athird, hee ' gapeehsuerthe headsof thepeare, and cloth esenflareopviolence, In a word, íAmosa,j- each man almoft Nthenlarged hisdefîre asthe heß,sndisaadeatb, andcannot bee cap.3..o. piffled, and is ni net well in his Conceit, till heebath evenk laded himfel fewith thickeclay: and wee are all trudging like this 'woman, with our pitcherson our lVcóeb necks, to fo.ceone wellor other,and ifitbe neuer fo deepe,it(hall goe very hard but we will get it out. But(alas) foules that we be, whenwe have done all, wee doebut risen weary out (clues ' for very vanity t when we have druukeofthiswell w S'crre 23. againe andagaine, yet in the end,our delire is as it was, rather ftretchedout to receine more, then filled with that which it hathobtained: when wee have rea- chedeae,e.) the vtmoftofour fin ft defrres,weare thenbut like the "hungry man, n or hie the chifieman, whodreameth, endlaeheúdrinking ,andwhenheawa4eth, beholde he is faint,and hisfuulelangethe So it is but an imagination ofcomfort. whichcorn- Methby there things, andno truecontentment. I befeech you, let this (bort and yet full difcosery ofourcommon folly, (who for thenam part, doenothingtut °föw the Winde, and if wee fu continue, (hall reape nothing but corruption) make ó Hoff.y; vs to fayas lob:13,1,61h hearers did, when they perceived by his preaching they were cleaneout of theway ,P whatfleallivedoe t hen ? Ifhitherto Wee haueaymed pLsh,,BÖJ at a wrongmarke in ourdelires, hew vs tpray you, howtort formeit: and let your hearts l prayyou feynow to me, as "Cornelius laid toPeter,q we areaQhere q A&io.4l, prefensbefer' God, to Beare allthings that are commandedTheeofGod: which I doe withlò Much the rather, hecaufe that winchd ant now next tofpeake of, is that wh.ch!ealomon inone pl .ce calicth 'durableriches, inanother,, the endofall,which fErrz, ;d Chri(t tearmeth the One needful?thing for which the futile of David panted °s t Luw.ro,4 ii, couparifonwhereof 'Paul *counted all things but as dung. Marke Grtl the. n P(l,,a.t, woe's, then fee the orderofthem. But whol:eerierdrinkethof this Water, (rc. The Yhà(.;.9. points to beinorder opered in the handlingof this vcrfe, are there: t. What tinsWater In n. That there in bothpower andwill inChrift to bellow it. 3. By what arcaneshe confer reels it. 4. To whom he glued] it. y. The benefitof en- joying it. 6. The means by which each man may know him&Ife to hauerecei ued it. All there points as they are needful!, fo in the fetterall handlingof them you (hall lindethem toaisle direly from the Text. Field, what is meant bythe water ]erementioned. It is a true raying, that the Whet Is mast Scripture innhe heft interpreter ofit (elfe, and one place muft bee expounded by by the wnur another. We fee thelight by the light, andwe doe vnderftand the true meaning which Clain the Scripture by theScripture. Wee can therefore haueno bettercxpofrrion B vpon thisplacethen Chenilsownewordselfewhere, to.which the Spirit of God bath annexedan explanation ofthe truemeaning, n Hee that beleeueth in nee(as atoly, ;ea;g faith the Scripture) our ofhis belly' flea flow risers of wat. ror lifer Tbúfßake bee (faithSaint !An)ofthefpirie Which they that b.liened rnhimfboatd receine; fo that by water here; arevuderltood the gifts and gracesoftheSpirit, which the Lordis pealed :o bellowvpon hischildren. It is not enough formee to tellyou thusmuch in generali l'earaies, but i mull proceedea little further, left Ithould leaveyou vncertaine, in that which my chiefedelire is to refglueyou. This therefore Ima tell you that though S 4 it 192
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