The godly and ungodly, their different motions in goodness. [ 514]
A Violent motion is quick in the beginning,* 1.1 but slow in the end; a stone cast up∣ward, is then most weak when it is most high; but a natural motion is slow in the beginning, quicker in the end: For if a Man from a high Tower cast a stone down-ward, the nearer to the center, the quicker is the motion: And therfore when a man at his first conversion is exceeding quick, but afterwards waxeth every day slower and slower in the wayes of goodnesse, his motion is not natural and kindly, but forced: otherwise like a constant resolved Christian, the longer he lives, and the nee∣rer he comes to the mark, the more swiftly doth he run, the more vehemently doth he contend for that everlasting Crown, which he shall be sure to attain, at his Ra∣ces end.