Touching _Moses_ fire, it was first sent from Heaven, and lasted to the construction of _Solomons_ Temple, which was again renewed from Heaven; and maintained to King _Manasses_ his time, when the Jewes were carryed captives into _Babylon_, which the Levites kept in the bottome of a Well, where it was found again at their return 70 years after, in the form of a gluish and white water, as hath been said heretofore. _Pausanias_ to the _Corinthians_, sets down, that in the dayes of _Antigonus_ son of _Demetrius_, there appeared a fountain of warm water near to the City of _Mathana_, but from the beginning it appeared not in water, but in great flames of Fire which were resolved into hot and salt water. Saint _Ambrose_ yet discoursing upon this water of the Levites, in the third of his offices, sets down, that this doth sufficiently demonstrate, that this was a perpetual fire which could not be taken from another place, to shew that they must not acknowledge any other God, or other religion, and ceremonies then those that were established by the inspiration of the holy Spirit designed by fire; for we may see what the children of _Aaron_, _Nadab_ and _Abihu_, found in the 10 of _Leviticus_, being willing to take upon them to offer strange fire unto God. Then all false doctrine, idolatry, heresie, and impiety, may be called strange fire, that devours the soul as a feaver doth the body, with the life that maintains it; there where this true fire sent from Heaven, is that of the holy Spirit, which salteth our hearts and consciences, that is to say, preserves them from corruption, according whereunto the Prophet _Jeremie_ spake in his 20. chapter when he had received it. Then it was made _as a burning fire in my heart, and shut up in my bones, and I was weary in forbearing and could not stay_. That the Holy Spirit should not be only light, but very fire, _Esay_ doth manifest chap. 10. 17. _And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his holy one for a flame._ For even so as the burnings, which are a potentiall fire, composed of igneal and burning salts, work not upon a dead part, insensible, and deprived of Natures heat; so the holy Spirit doth not exercise its actions upon cold languishing hearts, that make no account of its ticklings, and invitations, but shew themselves contumacious and refractary; just so as the heat of the Sun, and of the fire, but more and more hardens earth, and clay, in stead of softening it, and melts it as they do wax, butter, and grease. For the acts of Actives are in the disposition of the Patient, where we see fire does divers effects in disagreeable subjects, but not wholly contrary, and directly opposite; as when it blacks a coal, and white chalk where its vertue is imprinted, but all to the contrary; for fire by custome is extinguished by water, it is it, that in this respect inflames and renewes that which was imprinted and hidden in the chalk: whence a fair