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IN the midst of the Temple, was placed a huge brazen vessel, wh̄ece many channels yssued forth, apt to communicate their waters, for the vse of Preists and Leuits, where with they washed themselues when they went to sacrifice.a 1.1
Weigh the munificence of God, who thought it not enough, for de∣claration of his famous and good wil towards vs, to water the hart of man with his owne bloud, vnles he left vs also a fountaine famous for
seauen channels, from whence the guifts of graces might plentifully & prodigally flow into our minds, to wit seauen Sacraments instituted to this end, to wash vs, to expiate our sinnes, and to wipe al steynes from the hart.
2. Point. Consider the grace, which flowes from the fountaines of the Sacraments, to be a golden water, which turnes al it touches, into gold; and that so powrefully and diuine∣ly, as there is not the least action of our life (so it be sprinckled with the liquour of diuine grace) which we ought not to make more recko∣ning of, then of al the treasures and riches of the world; as meritorious and worthy of eternal happines.
3. Point. Consider now, how al graces, & merits depend of the only Sonne of God, and thence ••re deri∣ued by certaine pipes or aqueducts
as from the rock or head of these li∣uing waters: Wherefore we are most studiously to receiue and keep this liquour of grace; least any whit thereof should breake from the bancks of our hart; nor is any oc∣casion of heaping merits to be omit∣ted, which we greedily reach or catch not at.
Exod. 3.