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 "Last times are come, Cumæa's prophesie Now from high heaven springs a new progenie, And times great order now again is born, The Maid returns, Saturnian Realms return."

And a little after intimating that originall sin shall be of no effect, saith,

"If any prints of our old vice remain'd By thee they'r voyd, and fear shall leave the Land; He a Gods life shall take, with Gods shall see Mixt Heroes, and himself their object be, Rule with paternall power th' appeased earth He shall --"

Then he adds, that thence the fall of the Serpent, and the poison of the tree of death, or of the knowledge of good, and evill shall be nulled, saying,

"-- The Serpent shall And the deceitfull hearb of venome fall."

Yet he intimates that some sparks of originall sin shall remain, when he saith,

"Some steps of ancient fraud shall yet be found."

And at last with a most great hyperbole cryes out to his child, as the off-spring of God, adoring him in these words,

"Dear race of Gods, great stock of Jupiter, Behold! the world shakes on its ponderous axe, See earth, and heavens immense, and th' Ocean tracts, How all things at th' approaching Age rejoyce! Oh! that my life would last so long, and voyce, As would suffice thy actions to rehearse."

There are also some prognosticks, which are in the midle, betwixt naturall, and supernaturall divination, as in those who are neer to death, and being weakened with old Age, do sometimes foresee things to come, because as saith Plato, by how much the more men are less hindred by their sence, so much the more acurately they understand, and because they are neerer to the place whither they must go, and their bonds being as it were a little loosed, seeing they are no more subject to the body, easily perceive the light of divine revelation.

==Chapter lxi. Of the forming of Man, of the