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Iron in the adverse part of a vessell remov'd somewhat far from the Loadstone, turnes to it more slowly, and goes toward it with a softer
motion, but by how much the nearer it ap∣proacheth, by so much the more it hastens its pace, and flies to it more speedily; for the vertue increaseth more and more, and so their com∣ming together is haste∣ned: No otherwise was the condition of those Fathers who lived be∣fore the Deluge, and after, about the time of Moses, who saw before hand the comming of Christ in the flesh, which was to be many ages af∣ter; for they desired his comming in a more lukewarme & languish∣ing manner: but such as lived some few yeares
before his Nativity, as Zacharias and Simeon, and saw the same, as it were, now ready to rise; They were carried to∣wards him with the whole bent of their affe∣ctions, as it were with full Sailes: The same fervent minde, and ar∣dent desire should be in us, who are fallen upon the ends of the world, towards his second com∣ming to Judgement, which is now at the dores: The same minde should be in Christians well stricken in age, whose salvation and glo∣ry is nearer than when they were newly con∣verted and beleeved at
first; no otherwise than as the streame and vio∣lence of Rivolets is much more swift neare the Ocean, than hard by the Fountaine; it is now time (saith aged Zanchius to Sturmius, another de∣crepite old man) that we should hasten from earth unto Christ, to the Star∣ry sky, knowing that we shalbe there very short∣ly with the Lord.