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1. I Will here therefore, O Lord, speake what is true in thy sight: namely, that when ignorant men and in∣fidels (for the gayning and admitting of whom into the Church, these Sacraments of beginnings, and the migh∣ty workings of miracles are necessary, which wee haue supposed to bee signified vn∣der the name of Fishes and Whales) doe giue entertayn∣ment
for bodily refreshment, or otherwise succour with something vsefull for this present life, vnto thy Chil∣dren; whenas themselues be ignorant, eyther what to doe, and to what end; ney∣ther doe those feede these, nor are these fed by those: because that neyther doe the one sort doe it our of an holy and vpright intent; nor the other sort reioyce at their gifts, whose fruit they as yet behold not. For vpon that is the minde fed, of which it is glad. And therefore doe not the Fishes and Whales feede vpon such meats, as the Earth brings not forth, vntill after it was separated and diui∣ded from the bitternesse of the Sea-waters.