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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

as so many ensigns of Heavenly Nobility so that if Men had but the true skill of Christianty they would be ambitious of the Crown of Martyrdome look upon it as a blessed thing when Men speak all manner of evil of them and with Moses rather choose of su●●er with the People of God then enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a season God shewing Mercy onely for Christ Iesus sake DAvid after his Victory over the Philistines calls Ziba before him and asks him Whether there were not yet any Man left of the house of Saul that he might do him kindnesse for Ionathan's sake whereupon they presented unto him Mephibosheth a poor lame impotent Man who no sooner sees the King but he falls on his face and looks upon himself as a dead dog far below the Kings favour No matter sayes the King Fear not for I will shew thee kindnesse for Ionathan's sake c. And thus if there be any for lorn Ioseph that is fallen into the pit of dispair let him but cast up his eyes to the hills from whence cometh his salvation and God will shew him Mercy for Christ Iesus sake If there be any lame impotent Mephibosheth any wounded spirit any of the household of Faith that is distressed God will enquire after them and do them good for Christ Iesus his sake Gods goodnesse to us to be a Motive from vain Swearing POlycarp that Religious Martyr and Bishop of Smyrna in the time of the Fourth Persecution under Marcus Antonius Verres When he was commanded to swear but one Oath made this answer Fourscore and six years have I endeavoured to do God service and all this while he never hurt me How shall I speak evill of so good a Lord and Master who hath thus long preserved me And added further being thereunto urged by the Proconsul I am a Christian and cannot do it let Heathens and In●idels swear if they will I cannot do it were it to the saving of my life Thus it is that if nothing else will keep a Man from idle swearing and taking of the blessed Name of God in vain the very consideration of benefits received from him should be motive and disswasive sufficient not to lade him with oaths that hath so laden us with Favours and that whilest he is every moment doing good for our Souls and Bodies we should dare to return him evill for the good he doth unto us The sword of Warre impartiall WHen the Duke of Medina Sidonia was armed by the King of Spain his Master against the Protestant party he spoyled all before him and flew as well upon those of his own Religion as others One asked him Why he had no more care to spare those of his own Religion his answer was My sword knowes no difference betwixt Catholiques and Lutherans Thus it is that whensoever God shall be pleased for the sins of a People or Nation to give the Sword● a Commission to eat flesh and drink bloud it will make little or no difference at all betwixt the precious and the vile the godly and prophane the bullet will not distinguish betwixt the Commanders and the commanded No argument was found so forcible as to perswade the enraged Babylonians to spare the poor captived Iews And at another time it was neither the Religion of God himself the memory of ancient Prophets nor the glory of their Temple nor the beauty of their well-compacted City nor the multitudes of People nor any respect in the World could move the incensed Romans to have the least pity on them But there 's no such need to step over our own threshold to prove the truth of this assertion It is yet in fresh and bleeding Memory that the sword of Warr is impartiall sparing none that come before it and pitying none that come nigh it Afflictions ●it us for Heaven IT was a notable expression of Master Hawks writing a consolatory Epistle to Master Philpot then a prisoner in the Bishop's Cole-house This Bishop's Cole-house sayes he is but to scowr you and make you bright and fit you to be set up upon the high shelf meaning Heaven As when good Housewifes would set up vessels of brasse or iron they first take cinders or ashes and scowr them whereby they are fitted to be set up So all Afflictions and troubles of this life are but means that God useth to furbish his People withall to make them bright and clean that so they may be set on high they must not come on the high shelf till all the rust be taken off not enter into Heaven till they have been in the furnace of Afflictions and are washed and cleansed and purified from the filth and drosse of sinfull pollutions The great weight of Government IT is a Morall that is given of Aaron's apparrell that he carried the twelve Tribes in his breast-plate next his heart to shew that in care he was to bear them But he had them also engraven in two Onyx stones and those set upon his shoulders to shew that another while he was to bear them in Patience also And it was so with Moses too at one time he bears the People as a Nurse doth her child that is full tenderly But when they fall a murmuring as they did often he bare them upon his shoulders in great patience and long suffering yea he complained Non possumportare I am not able to bear all this People Thus it is that Governments may well be said to have their weights be heavy when shoulders and all must be put to them when they need not onely a good head but good shoulders that sustain them yet that not so much while they be in good tune and temper then they need no great carriage but when they grow unweildy be it weaknesse or way wardnesse of the governed in that case they need And in that case there is no Governor but that at one time or other he hath load enough upon his shoulders and finds the weight of Government onus humeris Angelorum non leve unsupportable New inventions of Sin condemned SArdanapalus that wretched Epicure made Proclamation through the Coasts of Assyria that he should be well rewarded who could devise some new way of delight never thought on before And as he was industrious to find out new wayes of Pleasure so was Perillus as carefull to invent a new way of Punishment by the making of a brazen Bull at the command of a Tyrant by whose means he was the first that bellowed out his life in the same Thus it is with us We are all for invention and new devices of Sin altogether unknown to the Ages of our Forefathers New Lords new Laws new lights new doctrines new fashions new faces nay almost new kinds of Men and Women Hic mulier haec vir scarce discernable by their habits whether Men or Women or

upon the guard in a posture of defence resisting the Devil quitting themselves like men who otherwise might live in all security Man to be peacable and why so MAn by nature seems to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apeaceable Creature fitter to handle the Plow-share than the sword fitter to deal with the pruning hook than the Spear All other Creatures are naturally armed with some kind of weapon wherewith being offended they are able to right and revenge themselves The Lion hath his paws the Bull his horns The Boar his Tusks The Dog his Fangs The Cock his Spurs The little Bee his Sting habet Musca splenem There is no Creature so small so contemptible which hath not some weapon to fight withall onely Man he hath none of these he comes naked unarmed into the world whereby saith the Poet even nature it self teacheth us this lesson that it is for brute beasts that have no understanding to bite and tear and gore one another As for men they should be meek gentle helping defending comforting one another God hath given them reason and speech that they might delight to live and converse together in Cities and Families not to hunt and to worry and to kill one another Sanctification not wrought all at once and why HE that will dye a Purple in grain doth give his cloth inferior colours first and after many dippings in many preparative liquors he doth at length perfect the colour and gives it its full lustre Even so the splendor of Sanctity is not attained in the first moment of our Conversion many a line must be drawn in our souls by the sp●rit of God before we can fully recover his Image Not that there is any inability in God so that he cannot in a moment as in the Creation make us both innocent holy but he is pleased by the difficulty on our part to make us mindful of our former unthriftiness and careful to husband Grace better when he is pleased to give it God onely wise CAnutus a King of this Land contended that the name of King was onely due to the King crucified Jesus Christ so surely the name of Wisdom is due and to be ascribed to God onely as being onely wise It is St. Pauls acknowledgement 1 Tim. 1. 17. Nay the very Heathens as arrogant as they were have acknowledged no less Laertius writes that certain young men of Ionia standing upon the Sea-shore and beholding Fisher-men making of a draught agreed with them a●great for their draught that what they should hale up to land in their net should be their own Now it was so by the providence of God that together with certain fish they enclosed a certain piece of Plate which no Man knew when it was sunk there and dragged the same to land in their net The same being claimed and seized on by the young men by vertue of their bargain they cast between them how to dispose of it But when they could not agree about the sharing of it they sent to the Oracle for Resolution they were returned answer to send it to the Wisest They send it therefore to Thales their Country-man a man of great note in those dayes for wisdom but when it was brought to him he disabled himself and disdained the name of VVise and sent it to such a one as being more wise then he was The second also he would none of it but sent it to a third and the third to a fourth c. And so they posted it from one to another till seven had it The seventh and last Solon by name he made no more ado but sent it to the Temple at Delphi for a present to God acknowledging him to be onely VVise A marvellous confession for Heathens to make touching the alone wisdom of God Magistrates to look to their Attendants AS it is the eye of the Master which feeds the horse so it is that also which keeps good order If Mephibosheth cannot stir because he is lame in his feet and David have other business then to examine things to the full Ziba will play his part he will abuse his Prince he will defraud his Master It is a remembrance to Magistrates and men in place that they look on such as attend them and suffer not their approaches to be ill spoken of for the behaviour of those that are about them The blind swalloweth many a Fly and he that knows his charge but by Relation doth swallow many a gogeon God's Mercy above his Iustice. A Merchant that keeps a book of Debitor and Creditor writes both what is owing him and what he oweth himself and then casteth up the whole But ●od doth not so his Mercy is triumphant over his Iustice and therefore he wipes out what we owe him and writes down that onely which he owes us by promise much like the Clouds that receive ill vapours from us yet return them to us again in sweet refreshing showers The very consideration of this may be as a full gale of wind in our ●ails to put us on to load Gods chronicle with thankfulness writing upon our selves by a real Profession of his service as Aaron did Holiness to the Lord. Surely our Iudgement is with the Lord and our work with our God Acts 10. 3. Remedy for a hard heart to cure it THere is a story of an Earl called Elz●arus that was much given to immoderate anger and the means he used to cure this disordered affection was by studying of Christ and of his patience in suffering the injuries and affronts that were offered unto him And he never suffered this meditation to pass from him before he found his heart transformed to the similitude of Christ Iesus Now we are all of us sick of a hard and stony heart and if we ever desire to be healed of this soul-damning disease let us have recourse to the Lord Iesus Christ and never leave meditating of his breakings and woundings for us till we find vertue coming out of him that the great heart-maker may become a great heart-breaker unto us Grace sometimes seemingly lost to a child of God MEn seek for keys sometimes when they are in their pocket And they think they have lost some Jewel when it is safe locked in their desk yea or as the Butcher looketh about or for the Candle that sticketh in his hat and he carryeth it about with him on his head and seeketh it by the light of that which he seeketh as if he had it not about him not remembring suddenly where he stuck it So the godly are oft in their own conceit at a loss when yet that they deem lost is sure and safe they miss many time God's grace in them and seek for this grace by the light of the same grace which yet they see not in themselves thinking that they are out of God's way when indeed they are in it and out of favour