26 NORTHERN MEMOIRS 



and save the world. This is the water of life 

 that's drawn from the inexhaustible fountain of 

 Christ our Redeemer. This is the true Physician 

 of life, that blots out the dismal characters of 

 death. Thus, whilst the formal Christian draws 

 streams' from the muddy cisterns of the ambigu- 

 ous world, his devotion reaches no higher than 

 himself, and the gaudy titles of ambition and 

 hypocrisy. 



Tlieoph. Shall I oblige Arnoldus to entertain 

 us with a contemplation of seraphick joys, whilst 

 the silent night passes away, and the blazing 

 torch of the sun appears, that causes an early 

 blush in Aurora. 



Arn. Every day has a new birth, but time 

 and the world had but one beginning. The 

 night was made to shadow the day, but the sun 

 to light and illuminate the universe ; and this 

 was ordain'd by the wisdom of Him that stuck 

 the stars in this beautiful order, before whose 

 triumphant throne the devout penitent pros- 

 trates his devotion, and pours forth his orizons 

 and sweet adorations in the presence of that 

 great and ineffable Good, that made the glitter- 

 ing spangled orbs, and is himself the light of the 

 world ; before whono every nation and kingdom 

 must bow or break ; whose mercy infinitely ex- 

 cels all his works, and whose justice and judg- 

 ment who shall dispute ? 



