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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

say the consideration of these things if they have any grace is matter enough to humble them Profession to be joyn'd with Practice IT is commonly seen upon those Bells that hang out for signes upon the one side is written Fear God on the other Honour the King Aaron the high Priest had upon his vestment Bells as well as Pomgranats O that those bells might strike on both sides with an holy profession which is one stroke and an holy conversation that 's another stroke While we onely say We fear God and glorifie Christ all this while the bell doth but toul it strikes but on one side But when we come to honour the King to do good to all men which is the practise and exercise of ●oly works then the bell rings out to Gods glory if otherwise we shall be no better then dissolute Choristers that sing Gloria Patri in the Queer but chant Carmina Bacchi in the Tavern And indeed to have a good heart to God as some speak and a leud life to the world as some suppose they may And that Intus si rect● non laborandum if all be well within they need care for no more so they wear holinesse next their skin no matter what prophane stuffe their lives be made of This is not to joyne profession and practice together Time to be well husbanded IN the Country if a man have a thousand acres of ground he can then spare so much of it to lie waste so much for a bouling-green so much for a tennis-court so much for a court-yard and so much for his mansion-house with the appurtenances thereunto belonging But let a poor man have but an hemp-pleck a small burgage or garden-plot he cannot spare one foot of it but looks to it and husbands it to the best advantage And so ought we to make much of that little time which we have in this world Hoc est momentum Eternity rides upon the back of Time then not to squander that little time away aut male aut nihil aut aliud agendo so that the candle of our life burning low we play it like foolish children out and then go darkling to bed comfortlesse to our graves The sad condition of Church and State not to be sleighted WHen the body of slaughtered Azahel was left in the high-way side there was not a man which came by but stayed When Iacob had the sight of Iosephs bloody coat he mourned and would go down into the grave after him refusing to be comfort The shewing of Caesars bloody robe in the market-place set all the Romans in a tumult And is it possible that any true hearted Christian now living can vvith drie eyes behold the scissures and maimes which every corner both of Church and State are subject to to see the tattered rags and relicks of a wounded bleeding dying Church to see Churches made dunghills and the Temple a stable for horses Horresco referens The stories of the Antients are full of examples of this nature and which is to be lamented we were not till of late years unfurnished therewith The great comfort of a good Conscience A Prisoner standing at the Bar in the time of his tryall seemed to smile when heavy things were laid against him one that stood by asked him Why he did smile O said he it is no matter what the Evidence say so long as the Iudge saies nothing And to speak truth it is no matter what the world saies so long as Conscience is quiet no matter how crosse the wheeles go so as the Clock strikes right unspeakable is the comfort of a good Conscience unconceivable is the joy when God and a good Conscience smile upon a Man in the midst of Reproach and trouble and false Imprisonment for those cannot be scandals where a good conscience speaks fair that cannot be a Prison where a good conscience is the Keeper but that 's a sad case when there are clamours abroad and a noyse within when a Man is outwardly smitten with bitter things and inwardly tormented with a guilty conscience Active Christians the onely Christians EPhorus an ancient Historian and Scholler to Isocrates had no remarkable thing to write of his Country and yet was willing to insert the name of it in his History and therefore brings it in with a cold Parenthesis Athens did this famous thing and Sparta did that And at that time my Conntry-men the Cumins did nothing God forbid that England and English-men should be so recorded in Ecclesiasticall story as to have their names put in with a blank Such a Church did thus nobly and such a People suffered thus pittifully and at that time the Men of England did just nothing to be more particular such a Man did so much and such a Man gave so much for the glory of Christ and succour of poor Christians and at that time thou didst nothing thou gavest nothing Thou professest thy selfe to be a Christian be an active Christian There be not onely walls upon Earth but a Book in Heaven wherein the names of Christian Benefactors are written let it be thy care of find thy name there otherwise it will be no more honour for thee to be put into the Chronicle than it was for Pontius Pilate to have his name mentioned in the Creed Sin not consented unto excusable before God IN Moses Law it is provided that if a woman being in the field shall be forced by a Man against her consent if she cry out the Man shall be adjudged to death● but she shall be free as having done nothing worthy of death As it was well observed upon the Rape committed by Tarquin upon Lucretia that gallant Roman dame Duo fuerunt in actu c. there were two in the act and but one in the Adultery So that sinne which a Man abhorreth from his heart and consenteth not unto but so farre forth as infirmity and weaknesse of flesh gave way cannot properly be called his sinne but the Devils sin it being the Devills Rape upon the precious Soul for being tempted he cryes out unto the Lord for help his heart smites him speedily and he fals to Repentance immediately so that it is no more He but sin that dwelleth in him that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that other Law in the Members● that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that body or remaines of sin according to which he is confident that God will not judge him but according to the better and sounder part which is that of the Spirit most prevailing within him Humility advanced THat little humi repens the Grashopper the silliest of all Creatures is for all that advanced in the principal City and in a principall street of that City and a principall building of that street and in a principall place of that building as a golden object of Magnificence to be

apparelled So let all such as are advanced in the worlds eye such as are arrived at great estates such as heretofore not worthy to sit with the Doggs of the flock are now seated with Princes consider the simple weeds perhaps that were once upon their backs and now God hath given them change of Apparell What a small stock they had once to begin withall and how God hath conveyed unto them hidden Treasures What Minums they were once in the World and what Grandees they are now become That whilst others have poverty they have prosperity Whilst others are empty they are full whilst others have a narrower border theirs is enlarged whilst others have neither means nor meat their portion is fat and their meat plenteous When therefore they eat in plenty and are satisfied let them praise the name of the Lord their God which hath done wonderfully for them and say with David All that we enjoy cometh of thine hand and all is thine own 1 Chron. 29. 6. Sloathfulnesse and luke-warmnesse in Religion forerunners of evill to come IT is said of Alexius Comnenus that when upon the day of his Inauguration he subscribed the Creed in a slow trembling manner it was an ominous sign to all What a wicked Man he would prove and how nigh the ruine of the Empire was at had And when Philip the last King of Macedon a little before the great battle which he fought with Flaminius stepped up upon the top of a Sepulchre to make an Oration to his Souldiers it foretold a sad event of the issue of the battle Thus we which have violated the faith and are come to such a sloathfulnesse and lukewarmnesse in performance of Religious duties it doth presage that our very inwards are corrupted and the foundations of our Welfare shaking We that have trod upon the heads of so many famous Martyrs which first conveyed unto us our faith and worship it is a kind of Prediction that this at last will be fatall to our Church There is time yet to amend but how long God knows It is to be hoped that our sinnes have not yet made God to abhorre the excellencies of Iacob nor left us naked before the Lord We have yet much in our keeping all is not gone let it be our care to preserve what is left and be thankfull for what we have in the present enjoyment Mans great Vanity in proposing to himselfe long life WHen God revealed to Nehuchadnezar how little a while his Empire was to last he shewed him a statue of divers mettals the head of Gold the breast silver the belly brass the leggs iron the feet clay and a little stone descending from the Mountains dash't the Statue in pieces But instead of taking this as a fore-warning of his end and to have it still before his eyes he made another statue of Gold from top to toe which is held to be a durable and lasting mettal so that the more God fought to undeceive him the more was he deceived with his vain hopes And this is a fit resemblance of that which daily hapneth unto us for God advising us that in the midst of all our magnificent structures and costly edifices that of our body our best building is but rear'd up of a little dirt an house of clay that daily moulders away and will be ere long reduced to little or nothing yet our idle thoughts and vain hopes imagine it to be of gold to be built of strong and lasting materialls which cannot be when as mans life is so short that it is no more then to go out of one grave into another out of the womb of our particular Mother into that of the earth the common Mother of us all Dust we are and to dust we must return Gen. 2. How it is that a prudent man may lawfully comply with the Times IT is said of the Yeale a certain wild beast in Aethiopia that he hath two horns of a cubit long which he can in fight move as he list either both forward to offend or both backward to defend or the one forward and the other backward to both uses at once So should wise men apply their counsells and actions to the times and either to put forth the horns of their power or pull them in as occasion offers yet with this caution that as the Marriner changeth his course upon the change of the wind and weather but still holdeth his purpose of getting into the harbour so should all prudent men States-men especially as upon every new occasion they alter their sailes and veer another way they should still make their course to the point of the publick good and safety not once minding their own private benefit or advantage The difference betwixt a good and bad Memory AS the stomack is the storehouse of our corporall food and keeping therein our present meat the body takes from thence its sustenance whereby its life and being is maintained So the memory is the stomack and magazine of the soul and sets before our eyes the obligation wherein we stand the good which we lose and the hurt which we gain and representing thereunto the species and shapes of things past they sometimes work that effect as they would have done had they been present themselves whence is ingendred the love of God which is that good blood wherewith the soul is nourished And then again as from the disorder and disagreement of the stomack painfull diseases do arise and divers infirmities hang upon the body so from the forgetfulness of our memories rise those manifold disorders and distempers in the soul such as deaden the graces of the Spirit and flat the motions thereof bringing the soul into a labyrinth of perplexity untill God be pleased to bring such things into mind again as may relieve it Oath or Covenant-breakers not to be trusted THe Lawes divine and human have left no such bond of assurance to tie and fasten one to another as that of an Oath or Covenant which are to be taken in sincerity and kept inviolably But seeing the deprivation of our nature hath perverted these Lawes and abused this lawfull act by equivocations and mentall reservations making it like a Gipsies knot fait or loose at their pleasure or like a Tragedian buskin equally fitting each foot The Law of State prescribes us this remedy to trust no man of noted falshood and duplicity but upon good caution and good reason too For he that hath passed the bounds of modesty and made no Religion of Oath or Covenant for his proper advantage never after makes scruple in his cauteriate conscience to offend in like sort as often as like occasion shall be offered The unresolved mans inconstancy THe River Novanus in Lombardy at every Midsummer Solstice swelleth and runneth over the banks but in mid-winter Solstice is clean and dry Such is the nature of men

spoil and rob the Church so as they may enrich themselves and their Families thereby Publick men to have publick spirits PLutarch recordeth an excellent speech of Pelopides when going out of his house to the Wars his Wife came to take her leave of him and with tears in her eyes praies him to look to himself O my good wife said he It is for private Souldiers to be carefull of themselves not for those in publick place they must have an eye to save other mens lives Such a spirit becomes every man in publick place flesh and blood will be apt to prompt a man that it is good to sleep in a whole skin why should a man hazard himself and bring himself into danger But let such know that men in publick places are to have publick spirits and to take notice that though there be more danger by standing in the gap than getting behind the hedge yet it is best to be where God looks for them to be Every man to be employed in his Calling NO Creature though destitute of Reason but keepeth his course they let us see in their working whereto they were ordained The Sun giveth his light the fire his heat the water moistnesse the earth beareth fruit In all Creatures may be read this lesson Deus natura nihil faciunt frustrà And if Creatures void of Reason do so much more should those that are endued with Reason not to wrap up their Talent in a napkin and hide it but as St. Peter adviseth Every one as he hath received the gift so he must dispose it Death strips us of all outward things SAladine a Turkish Emperour he that first of that Nation conquered Ierusalem lying at the point of death after many glorious Victories commanded that a white sheet should be born before him to his grave upon the point of a spear with this proclamation These are the rich spoiles which Saladine carrieth away with him of all his triumphs and victories of all the riches and Realms that he had now nothing at all is left but this sheet Why then should we desire so much after other mens goods and seek to get them by hook and by crook Why should we devour houses even widowes houses Why should we encroach upon other mens fields and seek unlawfully to joyne land to land calling the lands after our own names entayling them upon children's children to make as the Lawyers speak a perpetuity when at last if we could conquer never so much rake and scrape up all that we can reach we must come to the pit with Saladine and carry nothing away with us but a shrouding mantle Selfishnesse condemned THere is a story of a Fool who being left in a chamber and the door locked when he was asleep after he awakes and finds the door fast and all the people gone he cries out at the window Oh my self my self Oh my self Such Fools have we now amongst us in these self-seeking daies nothing but self is in mens thoughts in their hearts and all their endeavours self-ends self-policy like that of Israel an empty Vine that brings forth fruit to her self All seek their own themselves not the things of God and it were just with God to leave such men to themselves hereafter that look so much to themselves here in this World To blesse God for the peace of Conscience WHen the Romans by conquest might have given Law to the Grecians at Corinth in the solemn time of the Isthmian games their Generall by an Herald unexpectedly proclaimed freedome to all the Cities of Greece the Proclamation at first did so amaze the Grecians that they did not believe it to be true but when it was proclaimed the second time they gave such a shout that the very birds flying in the air were astonished therewith and fell dead to the ground But if you will have a better story take that of the Iewes who when at first they heard of Cyrus's Proclamation and that the Lord thereby had turned the captivity of Sion they confesse that at the first hearing of it they were like men that dream't but afterwards their mouths were filled with laughter and their tongues with singing Now the peace that the Grecians and the Iewes had was but the peace of a People or a Nation and a great blessing of God too but how much more reason is there that our affections should be strained to the highest pitch of ●oy and thanks when we hear of the Proclamation of the peace of conscience that peace which is not of our bodies but of our souls not of our earthly but of our heavenly estate a peace that shall be begun here that shall endure for ever hereafter such a peace as will make God at peace with us reconcile us to our selves and make us at concord with all the world A forraigne Enemy to be prevented FAbius Maximus kept aloof from the Carthagenian Army upon an high hill till he saw that Han●●bal had worsted 〈◊〉 in the plain but then he falleth upon him and routs all his Troops Whereupon Hannibal uttered that memorable speech I ever feared that the cloud which hovered so long on the hills would in the end poure down and give us a sad shour The case is ours we are together by the ears in the plain as to the matter of judgment especially but Fabius is upon the hill there is a considerable party upon the mountains a forraign Enemy that hath an eye upon our divisions and if not prevented may in all likelyhood by the reason of our sins be the destruction of us Husbands to bear with the Wife's infirmity PRetious things whereof we make account the weaker they be the more tenderly and charily they are to be handled as China-dishes and Crystall-glasses and the like of all parts of the body the eye is most ●enderly used and touched Now what things what persons are more pretious than a Wife and yet withall a weak vessell and therefore to be born withall As the Husband is the stronger so he must bear with the infirmities of the weak The language of Zipporah was not so rough to Moses as his was smooth to her Ahab replies not to the upbraiding words of Iezeball and they that do otherwise may look big and stand upon their headship and authority but the wisdom that should be in such heads as to dwell with their wives according to knowledge is much to be questioned And certainly this is not to bear with the weaker vessell but rather to crush and shatter what they should but tenderly touch The time of Repentance not to be deferred THe Charriot-wheeles when they run the second runs near the first all the day long but never overtakes it In a Clock the second minute followes the first but never reacheth it So it is with all ●uncta●ors in Religion such as defer the time of Repentance as the