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288 ground. Lastly, if you seriously digest and ruminate upon it: For as fire is not forced from the flint with one stroke; so in these cold bosomes of ours, that retired and failing spark of goodness, is not enkindled by a single admonition. That at last it may truly flame in you; not in words and appearance only, but in reality and deed; I humbly beg and beseech of that divine fire. When he had thus said, he rose up hastily; I go Lipsius (sayes he) the Sun at this Noon height remembers me it is dinner time; do you follow. That I will readily and cheerfully (said I) justly making that acclamation, which they use to do in their mysteries;