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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

can the Timber that lyes in the Carpenters Yard hew and frame it self into a Ship If the living Tree cannot grow except the root communicates its sap much lesse can a dead rotten stake in the hedg which hath no root live of its own accord And thus if the Christian's strength be in the Lord as most certainly it is and not in himself then the Christlesse person must needs be a poor impotent Creature void of all strength and ability of doing any thing of it self towards its own salvation If a Christian that hath a spiritual life of Grace cannot exercise that life without strength from above then surely one void of that new life dead in Sins and trespasses can never be able to beget it in himself or any way concur to the production of it so helplesse is the state of unregeneracy so impotent the condition of every Man by Nature The state of Nature for all its specious out-side a state of Friendship with Hell AS it is with the fighting of two Fencers on the Stage you would think at first they were in earnest but observing how wary they are where they hit one another you may soon know they do not intend to kill one another And that which puts all out of doubt when the prize is done you shall see them merry together sharing what they have got from their deluded Spectators which was all they fought for Thus you shall have a carnal heart a Man in the state of unregeneracy make a great bussle against Sin by complaining of it or praying against it so that there seems to be a great scuffle betwixt Sathan and such a Soul but if you follow him off the Stage of duty where he hath gain'd the reputation of a Saint the prize he fought for you shall see the Devil and him sit as Friendly in a corner as ever The Sinner's desperate madnesse TErtullian stood as it were amazed at the folly of the Romans ambition who would endure all manner of hardship in Field and fight and run through any difficulty whatsoever and for no other thing but to obtain at last the honour to be Consull which he aptly calls Unius anni gaudium volaticum a joy that flits away at the years end Desperate then must needs be the madnesse of all wretched sinfull Men who will not endure a little hardship here but entayl on themselves the eternal wrath of God hereafter for the short Feast and running-banquet their lusts entertain them here withall which often is not gaudium unius horae a joy that lasts an hour nay so transient that it hardly feems to be at all The difference betwixt Sermons preached and Sermons printed THere is as much difference between a Sermon in a Pulpit and printed in a book as between milk in the warm breast and in a sucking bottle yet what it loseth in the lively taste is recompenced by the convenience of it The book may be had at hand when the Preacher cannot And that 's the chief end of Printing that as the bottle and spoon is used when the Mother is sick or out of the way so the book to quiet the Christian and stay his stomach in the absence of the Ordinance yet he that readeth Sermons and good books at home to save his pains of going to hear is a Thief to his Soul in a Religious habit he consults for his ease but not for his profit he eats cold meat when he may have hot He hazards the losing the benefit of both by contemning of one offering sacriledg for Sacrifice in robbing God of one duty to pay him in another The bare enjoyment of Church-priviledges doth not make up a true Christian. VVHen a Statute was made in Q. Elizabeths reign that all should come to Church upon penalty of being looked upon as in a way of Recusancy and so punishable by Law The Papists sent to Rome to know the Popes pleasure He returned them this answer Bid the Catholiques in England give me their Hearis and let the Queen take the rest And withall a dispensation was granted so that very many came to Church but it was more for fear then love more for the saving of their purses then any thought at all of saving their poor deluded Souls And thus it is that as Christ had his Saints in Nero's Court so the Devill his servants in the outward Court of his visible Church so that a Man must have something more to entitle him to Heaven then living within the pale of the Church and giving an outward conformity to the Ordinances of Christ There must be an inward conformity of the mind to the laws of God a subjection to the Scepter of Iesus Christ and a readinesse to be led by the guidance of the blessed Spirit otherwise he may be of the Church but not in the Church a Partaker of Church priviledges but no true Proprietor of the Graces and benefits thereby accrewing Acknowledgment of Mercies received the ready way to have them further enlarged IT is and usually hath been the manner of great Men such as from basenesse and beggery have ascended to Kingdomes and Empires and from sitting with the hirelings and dogs of the flock have been seated on Thrones of State and Tribunals of Justice to be delighted to speak often of their poor and mean beginnings to go and see the low roof'd Cottages where they were first entertained and had their birth and breeding yea there was one of late years that being got by desert into the Divinity chair did without superstition hang up in his Closet some part of that mean apparell wherein he first saluted his Oxford Mother A good way no doubt and being done with a good mind the ready way to have Mercies and blessings enlarged It would not be unusefull therefore for the Christian to look in at the grate to see the smoaky hole where once he lay to view the chains wherewith he was laden and to behold the snares of Sin and Sathan wherein he was once entangled but then to open his mouth with thanks unto God who will be sure to fill it with his tender and loving kindnesses The excellency of Christ Jesus IT is observeable that when some great King or Potentate draweth near unto his Royall City the Dukes Marquesses Earls Lords and others of the Nobility and Gentry ride before him Now if a stranger standing by should ask Who is this Man and who is that What power hath that Man at Court What place hath this What means hath a third It would be answered This is my Lord Duke that such an Earl the other such a great Lord such a one is the Lord Treasurer that the Lord Admirall and that other the Lord Chancellour c. but when the King comes he saith no more but onely That 's the King And why so And why no more but so because in

will grow mad and then they tear their own flesh and rend themselves in pieces And it is so with the unbelieving Reprobate with all wicked men if they do but hear the noise of afflictions the very sound of sorrowes approaching how do they fret and fume and torment themselves nay by cursing and swearing how do they re●d the body of Christ from top to toe in pieces Malice and Envy not fit guests for God's Table ST Augustine could not endure any at his Table that should shew any malice against others in backbitings or detractings and had therefore two verses written on his Table to be as it were monitors to such as sat thereat that in such cases the Table was not for them Quisquis amat dictis absent●m rodere famam Hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi Thus Englished He that doth love an absent friend to ●eer May hence depart no room is for him heer And how much lesse will the Lord endure any at his Table that come thither with malice and hatred against their brethren If love be required at our own Tables how much more will God require it in those that come to His Table When one man's heart swells with envy against another when a second is filled with malice and hatred this is not to eat the Lord's Supper but to eat one another this is not to sit at the Lord's Table but to be a guest at the table of devils Preparation to religious Duties must be free from worldly distractions IT was said of Sr. Wil. Cecill sometime Lord Treasurer of England that when he went to bed he would throw off his Gown and say Lye there Lord Treasurer as bidding adieu to all State-affairs that he might the more quietly repose himself So when we go to any Religious duty whether hearing or praying comming to the Lord's Table or in any other religious addresses whatsoever we should say Lie by world lie by all secular cares all houshold affairs all pleasures all traffick all thoughts of gain Lie by all adieu all We must now be as those that have nothing to do with the world for the time we must separate our hearts from all common uses that our hearts may be wholly for our God Dangerous to interpose with a divided People IT was once said to Luther when he was about interesting himself in seeking Reformation of those bad times Abi in cellam dic miserere nostri O Luther rather get you into your Cell and say Lord have mercy upon us And another being once asked why he did not write his judgment about the controversie of the time answered Cui usui Reipublicae cui bono mihi To what purpose it would not help the cause but much hazard him that should meddle And most true it is he that meddles with the divisions of the times may expect to be divided himself to have his name his repute cut assunder and thrown this way and that way It hath ever been an unthankfull work to meddle with a divided people a man may with as much safety put his hands into a nest of Hornets as to enterpose in the midst of such wild and unruly divisions as are now amongst us A good man is bettered by afflictions THe Bee is observed to suck out honey from the Thyme a most hard and dry herb So the good and faithful minded man sucketh knowledge and obedience from the bitter potion of adversity and the crosse and turneth all to the best The scouring and rubbing which frets others makes him shine the brighter the weight which crusheth others makes him like the Palm-tree grow the better the hammer which knocks others all in pieces makes him the broader and the larger In incude malleo dilatantur They are made broader on the Anvill and with the hammer although it be with the hammer yet dilatantur they are made to grow the wider The triall of faith is the enlargement of faith EXamination and tryall of a good Scholler hurts him not either in his learning or in his credit nay it advanceth him much in both his very examination rubs up his learning puts much upon him and sends him away with the approbation of others And thus in the tryall of faith there is an exercise of faith faith examined and tryed proves a faith strengthened and encreased Some things sometimes prove the worse and suffer losse by triall but the more faith is tryed the more faith is enlarged Unprofitable hearers of the Word described A Mariner when he takes his leave of his friends on th● shore sees them a while but when he is failed a little further then they are quite out of sight and he sees onely the houses then failing a little further he sees nothing but steeples and such high places but then sailing a little further nihil est nisi pontus aer he sees nothing but aire and water So it is with too too many unprofitable hearers of the Word it may be that when they are gon home from the Church there are some things fresh in memory but on the next day they have lost some but there are some other things that do yet present themselves before them and then they lose more and more till they have lost the sight of all no more of the Word appears then as if they had heard nothing at all All divisions are against Nature PHilosophers say Non datur vacuum there cannot be vacuity in the world the world could not stand but would be dissolved it every part were not filled because Nature subsists by being one if there were the least vacuity then all things should not be joyned in one there would not be a contiguity of one part with another This is the reason why water will ascend when the aire is drawn out of a pipe to fill it this is to prevent division in Nature O that we had but so much naturalnesse in us that when we see there is like to be any breach of union we would be willing to lay down our self-ends our self-interes●s and to venture our selves to be any thing in the world but sin that so we may still be joyning still u●iting and not rending from each other The hell of a guilty Conscience PHilo Iudaeus telleth that Flaccus plaid all the parts of cruelty that he could devise against the Iewes for their Religion's sake but afterward when the doom if Caligula fell upon him and he was banished to Andros an Island neer Greece he was so tormented with the memory of his bloody iniquities and a fear of suffering for them that if he saw any man walking softly neer to him he would say to himselfe This man is devising to work my destruction If he saw any go hastily Surely it is not for nothing he maketh speed to kill me If any man spake him fair he