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A61120	Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...	Spencer, John, d. 1680.; Fuller, Thomas, (1608-1661)	1658 (1658)	Wing S4960; ESTC R16985	1,028,106	735

better way then to come to him with Christ in our armes to present our suits by him We have so far provoked the Almighty by our sins that he may justly fall on us with a back-blow that we never yet dreamt of And who in Heaven or Earth can or dare treat for our peace but Christ our Peace-maker Ille oculus est per quem Deum videmus c. saith Ambrose He is our eye with which we see God our hand by which we offer to him and our mouth by which we speak unto him The Vanity of heaping up Riches IT is a great deal of care and pains that the Spider takes in weaving her web she runneth much and often up and down she fetcheth a compass this way and that way and returneth often to the same point she spendeth her self in multitudes of fine threads to make her self a round Cabinet she exenterateth her self and worketh out her own bowels to make an artificial and curious piece of work which when it is made is apt to be blown away with every pusse of wind she hangeth it up aloft she fastneth it to the roof of the house she strengthneth it with many a thread wheeling often round about not sparing her own bowels but spending them willingly upon her work And when she hath done all this spun her fine threads weaved them one within another wrought her self a fine Canopy hanged it aloft and thinks all 's sure on a sudden in the twinckling of an eye with a little sweep of a Beesom all falls to the ground and so her labour perisheth But here is not all Poor Spider she is killed either in her own web or else she is taken in her own snare haled to death and trodden under foot Thus the silly Animal may be truly said either to weave her own winding sheet or to make a snare to hang her self Just so do many Men wast and consume themselves to get preferment to enjoy pleasures to heap up riches and encrease them and to that end they spend all their wit and oftentimes the health of their bodies running up and down labouring and sweating carking and caring And when they have done all this they have but weaved the Spiders web to catch flyes yea oftentimes are caught in their own nets are made instruments of their own destruction they take a great deal of pains with little success to no end or purpose The way to God is a cross-way to the World A Man that walks by a River if he follow the River against the stream it will at length bring him to the Spring-head from whence it issueth but if he go along with the stream it will drill him on to the salt Sea So he that is cross-grained to the humours of the World that swims against the stream of sensual delights and pleasures that well improveth these outward things to God's glory shall at the length be brought to God the sweet fountain of them all but if he sail with wind and tide in the abuse of the good Creatures of God they will carry him down like a Torrent into the mare mortuum of perdition How to know God's dwelling-place Heaven WHen in our travel we chance to cast our eye upon some goodly structure of inestimable value we presently conceive it to be the pallace of a Prince So when we see the frame of Heaven so full of wonders where Stars are but as dust and Angels are but servants where every word is unspeakable and every motion is a miracle we may safely conclude it to be the dwelling of him whose name is Wonderful The dissolution of all ages past is to be a Memento for Posterity ONe Guerricus hearing these words read in the Church out of the book of Genesis Chap. 15. And all the dayes that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years and he dyed All the dayes of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years and he dyed And all the dayes of Enos were nine hundred and five years and he dyed And all the dayes of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years and he dyed c. Hearing I say these words read the very conceit of death wrought so strongly upon him and made so deep an impression in his mind that he retired himself from the world and gave himself wholly to devotion that so he might dye the death of the godly and arrive more safely at the haven of felicity which is no where to be found in this world And thus should we do when we look back to the many ages that are past before us but thus we do not Like those that go to the Indies we look not on the many that have been swallowed up by the waves but on some few that have got by the Voyage we regard not the millions that are dead before us but have our eyes set on the lesser number that survive with us and hence it comes to pass that our passage out of this world is so little minded National knowledge of God no true knowledge LOok upon a common beggar he knows the road-way from place to place can tell you the distance from Town to Town nay more can inform you of such a Noble-mans such a Knights such a Gentlemans house though it stand a great way off from the Road of such a Farmers and such a Yeomans house though it be in never so obscure a Village yet all this while hath no setled home no abiding place of his own Such is the knowledge of every Christian except a true Christian he can tell you of the pleasures that are at the right hand of God in the highest Heavens can talk and prate of God discourse of goodnesse but all this while is not good himself nor can make our unto himself any assurance of Interest in those heavenly things which he so much talketh of A formal specious Christian no true Christian. RAchel was very fair a goodly Woman to see to beautiful to the eye O but she was barren that mar'd all So there are many in the world such as make specious shews of Religion such as vvould seem to be Saints O but they are barren they are fruitless sap-less leave-less Christians they would seem to honour God but not with their substance they would seem to be religious but they will not refrain their tongues they would seem to be charitable but they will not part with a penny they have all form but little or no power of g●dliness many goodly blossoms of profession no r●al fruits of confession appearing outside specious not true not real Christians Order both in Church and State commanded and commended GOd is not the God of confusion but of order Confusion is from the Devil Order is from God especially in the Church which St. Paul resembles to our body wherein the parts are fitly disposed and every one keepeth his place The eye

ΚΑΙΝΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΛΑΙΑ THINGS New and Old OR A Store-house of Similies Sentences Allegories Apophthegms Adagies Apologues Divine Morall Politicall c. With their seveall Applications Collected and observed from the Writings and Sayings of the Learned in all Ages to this present BY JOHN SPENCER a lover of Learning and Learned Men. Deus nobis haec otia fe●t Virgil. Eclog. 1. LONDON Printed by W. Wilson and I. Streater for Iohn Spencer at Sion Colledge MDCLVIII CLERO Gentisque Anglicanae populo Florilegium hoc quale qualecunque D. D. Q. I. S. De Utcester Staffordiensis Collegij Sionij apud Londine●ses nunc Bibliothecarius minimè dignus TO THE READER EXceptions are easier prevented than removed a dim eye may fore-fee such as this Book must encounter reducible to two heads as made either against the Author or Matter thereof Against the Author as if it were presumption in him no Scholar by profession to adventure on such a design It is answerd First I know no such Monopoly for Scholars to engrose Book-making to themselv●s Secondly He hath from his Child-hood conversed with Books and Book-men and alwaies being where the Frankincense of the Temple was offered there must be some perfume remaining about him Lastly What he lacks in Learning he hath supplyed in industry Indeed filling stones which require more pains for portage then art for polishing are in their kind though not so gracefull as useful as squared stones and as much benefit may redound from the reading of this Book as from those of more elaborate composure Against the matter of the Book it may be objected That it is taken out of other Mens Books and Sermons But was it not I pray true of the Ax of the Son● of the Prophet 2 Kings 6. 5. Alas it was borrowed Is the Spiders poyson the better for being suckt out of her self or Bees h●ny the worse for being extracted from flowers Some Mens ●ooks are indeed meer Kites-nests a collection of stolen thing● such are pure Plagiares without any grateful acknowledg●ment but herein the Ingenuity of our Author is commendable that on the Margin he hath entred the names of such at whose Torch he hath lighted his Taper and I am confident that by such quotations he hath revived the memories of many Worthies and of their speeches which otherwise had utterly been lost The Title acquaints us with the nature of the Book Things NEW and OLD Onely to propound things New and New doth please rather then profit and more tickle the itch of the ears then satisfie the appetite of the Soul On the other side to present us with things Old and Old doth shew a lazy Writer and will make a weary Reader such Books are like an imperfect Map of the World wherein all America is wanting This Author hath endeavoured to compound both together and I hope with good success And like as changeable Taffata having the woof and the warp of different colour seemeth sundry stuffes to several standers by so will this Book appear with wrinckles and gray-headed to the lovers of Antiquity smooth and with doun 〈◊〉 such to whom Novelty is most delightfull He doth desire ●nd hope that his Book shall find that candor of course a●d courtesie generall which Custome hath almost made a due to forgive all venial though false Divinity true Morality mistakes But the Reader will catch cold by keeping him too long in the porch of this Preface who now the door being opened may enter into the House it selfe with the best wishes of From my Chamber in Sion Coll. London Jan. 10th 1657. Thy servant in Christ Jesus THO. FULLER The Names of the severall Authors cited in this COLLECTION A. PEtrus Abaelardus George Abbot Cant. Robert Abbot Sarum Robert Abbot Laurentius Abstemius Iacobus Acontius Iosephus Acosta Thomas Adams Melchior Adamus Adamantius Aelianus Aelius Spartianus Alardus Aemstelredamus Aemilius Probus Aesopus Phrygius Paulus Aegineta Aeschilus Agathias Albertus Magnus Ulysses Aldrovandus Alcoranus Turcorum Ioh. Henricus Alstedius Petrus de Alliaco Andreas Alciatus Alexander Alensis Alexander ab Alexandro Ammianus Marcellimus St. Ambrosius Robertus Am●sburiensis Isaac Ambrose Lancelot Andrews Winton Iames Andrews Pier d' Ancre Iohn Angier S. Anselmus Anacharsis Annotations on the Bible Appianus Polyhistor Ioh. Apostolius Apollodo●us Levinus Apollonius Sidonius Apollinaris Michael Apostolius Thomas Aquinas Benedictus Aretius Aristophanes Aristoteles Simeon Ash. S. Athanasius Athanaeus Athenagoras William Attersoll S. Augustinus Ludovicus Aurigarius Avicenna Ausonius Aurelius Victor B. GErvase Babington Wigorn. Sir Francis Bacon Peter Bales Isaac Bargrave D. Cant. Iohn Barlow Walter Balcanquel D. D. S. Basilius Thomas Bastard Caesar Baronius Basilius Seleuciae Sr. Richard Baker Casper Barthius Richard Baxter Bartholomaeus Paul Bayne Iohn Bayly Venerabilis Beda Robertus Bellarminus Fulk Bellers S. Bernardus Bernardinus Senensis Petrus Berchorius Richard Bernard Jacobus Bergomensis Joh. Berry Theodorus Beza Hieronymus Benzonius Petrus Bizarus Jacobus Billius Petrus Blesensis Ioh. Bodinus Robertus Bodius Mauritius Bohemus Carolus Bon●inius Antonius Bonfinius Jeremiah Boroghs Hector Boe●hius Philippus Bosquierus Giovanni Bosteno Thomas Bowyer Bonaventura Immanuel Bourn Ioh. Boys D. Cant. Samuel Bond. Iohn Bond. Martinus Borhaius Robert Bolton Edward Brerewood John Brinsley Johannes Bromiardus Jonathan Brown D. Hereford L. Brook Matth. Brooks Joh. Browning Joh. Bromiardus Thomas Brooks Abrahamus Bucholcerus Georgius Buchananus Samuel Buggs D. D. Joh. Buntingus Anthony Burges Joh. de Burgo Iohannes Buntingus Robert Burton Iohannes Buxtorphius C. PHilippus Cameracensis Edmund Calamy Gulielmus Cambdenus Iohannes Camero Ioh. Calvinus Ioh. Cassianus S. Caecilius Ioseph Caryl Ludovicus de Carbone Vincenzo Cartari Calvino Turcismus Thomas Cartwright Iohn Carpenter R. Carpenter Cassiodorus Carolus R. Nathaniel Cannon Seth Calvisius Catena Patrum Grae. L. Capel Daniel Cawdery Michael de Cervantes Cedrenus William Cecill L. Burleign Robert Cecil E. Salsb. Pier Charon Martinus Chemnitius Thomas Cheshire Thomas Cheast S. Chromatius S. Iohannes Chrysostomus Nathaniel Chytraeus R. Clark D. D. Samuel Clark Franciscus de S. Clara. Petrus de Clavis-rubeis Isidorus Clarius Claudianus Clemens Alexandrinus Ludovicus Coelius M. Collings Iames Connyers Columella Iohannes de Combis Phillippus Comineus Ianus Cornarus Patrick Copland Aegidius Corozetus Samuel Cottesford Samuel Croke Sir George Croke Judge William Crashaw Petrus Crinitus I. Crompton Henry Cuffe Ezekiel Culverwel Iames Curle Winton Q. Curtius Ioh. Cuspinianus S. Cyprianus Cyriacus Spangenbergensis Cyrillus Alexandrinus D. Sir Robert Dallington Ioh. Dalton Damascenus Samuel Daniel Ioh. Davenport Martin Day D. D. VVilliam Day Winton Dares Phrygius Iohn Denison Demosthenes Phillippus Diez Paulus Diaconus Pontius Diaco Diogenes Laertius Dialogus Creaturarum Dionysius Carthusianus Diodorus Siculos Sermones Discripuli de Tempore Dion Cassius Ioh. Downame George Downame John Donne D. S. Paul Hieronymus Drexelius Matthaeus Dresserus Joh. Drusius Edward Dunstervile Bryan Duppa Sarum Jeremiah Dyke Daniel Dyke E. PHilip Edlin Richard Edes Thomas Edwards John Elborow D. D. Edward Elton Gasper Ens. Epiphanius Des. Erasmus Antonius Eremita Evagrius Joh Evans