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Thus standeth the opposition: Understanding is a Wellspring of life to those that possess it, and therefore the counsel of wise men is wisdom: and ignorance is the fountain of death to them that are possessed of it, and therefore the instruction of fools is folly.

Thus standeth the opposition: Vnderstanding is a Wellspring of life to those that possesse it, and therefore the counsell of wise men is wisdome: and ignorance is the fountaine of death to them that are possessed of it, and therefore the instruction of fooles is follie.

Doct. Nothing is more needful and profitable for the body, than grace is for the soul.

Doct. Nothing is more needfull and profitable for the body, than grace is for the soule.

He taketh his comparison from that which every man, besides many other creatures, hath necessary use of for preservation of life; and whereof the plants of the earth stand in need for growth and fruitfulness, and the ground it self for ⟨p. 91⟩moisture and fertility. By the same similitude the Lord Jesus doth commend and set forth the excellency of his grace and Gospel to the woman of Samaria, when he told her, that whosoever should drink of the water that he shall give him, shall never be more athirst: but the water that he shall give him, shall be in him a Well of water springing up into everlasting life. And not much unlike to this is that which he so solemnly proclaimed in a solemn assembly, and that in the last and great day of a solemn feast, saying, He that believeth in me, as saith the ¹