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And then, behold other, behold better, behold blessed waters: ¹you taste of them in this life, and they fill your bones with Marrow,² and your hearts with joy; they alone satisfy your thirst: without which, though you could with Xerxes Army, drink whole Rivers dry, your burning heat could not be quenched. Here drink,³ Bibite et inebriamini, Drink, and be drunken in this Wine-cellar: only, having drunk hearty draughts of these waters of life, retain them constantly: be not queasy-stomached, Demas-like, to cast them up again; the token of a cold stomach, not yet heated by the spirit: for as the loathing of repast is a token that Nature draws toward her end; so when these holy waters prove fastidious, it is an argument of a soul near her death. Take then and dige•• this water. Recipitur aure, retinetur cord, perficitur op•re. The ear receives, the heart retains, the life digests it: but alas, we retain these waters no longer then the finger of the Holy Ghost keeps them in us; like the •arden-pot, that holds water but whiles the thumb is upon it.

And then, behold other, behold better, behold blessed waters: ¹you taste of them in this life, and they fill your bones with Marrow,² and your hearts with ioy; they alone satisfie your thirst: without which, though you could with Xerxes Armie, drinke whole Riuers drie, your burning heat could not be quenched. Here drinke,³ Bibite et inebriamini, Drinke, and be drunken in this Wine-celler: onely, hauing drunke hearty draughts of these waters of life, ret•ine them constantly: be not queasie-stomached, Demas-like, to cast them vp againe; the token of a cold stomach, not yet heated by the spirit: for as the loathing of repast is a token that Nature drawes toward her end; so when these holy waters proue fastidious, it is an argument of a soule neere her death. Take then and dige this water. Recipitur aure, retinetur corde, perficitur opre. The eare receiues, the heart retaines, the life digests it: but alas, we retaine these waters no longer then the finger of the Holy Ghost keepes them in vs; like the arden-pot, that holds water but whiles the thumbe is vpon it.