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FUrther, wee may be pleased to note by the way; That the Loadstone, together with the vertues obser∣ved, doth infuse and put a certaine weightinesse into the Iron: For that point of the Needle, which is touched and stirred up, doth plainly
out-weigh that which is untoucht, and is encli∣ned towards the earth: So likewise doth Christ adde gravitie to those vertues, wherewith hee is pleased to endow his Servants: and surely it is no lesse profitable and necessary to the soule of man, than ballasting is to a ship. And although Gravitie is not numbred by Philosophers among the vertues, yet it is the ornament and defence of them all. Now a grave man is hee which is stedfast in his purpose, is firmely fixt upon his intent, as a statu•• or i∣mage upon the base thereof, and without va∣riation
doth alwayes persist in the same mind; neither is hee carried a∣way with every popular wind of applause, nor chang'd into new forms, by any new doctrine or example; as other light vaine men are used to be.