Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey.

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Neer the Lake Agnano there is a Cave, into which (for the experience of Travellers) the neighbouring Inhabitants are wont to put their Dogs, which are no sooner in, but they are as dead immediately, with eyes set, and tongues hanging out; but taken thence presently, and thrown into the Lake, they recover; for which cause those Dogs no soo∣ner see a stranger coming, but if not timely prevented away they get them packing to the adjoyning mountains, not to be got again to make a new experiment. Lord thou saidst, In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt dye the death; and we never descend into acts of iniquity, but we are afresh dead in trespas∣ses and sins, and that irrecoverably, if not washed by faith and repentance in the foun∣tain opened for sin and for uncleannesse; but if we have so escaped, when temptation again presents it self, shall we not get us packing, by no means to be brought to another tryall?