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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

they hear them and not take in one Sermon before the other be well concocted they would soon find another manner of benefit by Sermons than the ordinary sort of many forward Christians do Outward formality onely in the service of God condemned MEn put on clean linnen their best cloths and how often do they look in a glasse to see that all be handsome before they show themselves in the Church to their neighbours and it is hoped that they which will not come slovenly before their neighbours will not appear sordidly before the Lord of Heaven and Earth and withall remember that that God that approveth this outward decency requireth the inward much more He will have us lift up to him not onely clean but pure hands also A neat outside and a slovenly inside is like a painted Sepulchre full of dead mens bones And it is to be feared that most of our Churches in the time of Gods service are full of such Tombs There are a generation that are clean in their own eyes but are not washed from their filthinesse Conversion of a sinner wrought by degrees LIttle children of whom ● travail again in birth c. saith the Apostle Gal. 4. 19. untill Christ be formed in you So that conversion is not wroug●t simul semel but by little and little in processe of time In the generation of Infants first the brain heart and liver are framed then the bones veins arteries nerves and sinews and after this flesh is added and the Infant first begins to live the life of a plant by growing and nourishing then it lives the life of a beast by sense and motion and thirdly the life of a man by the use of reason Even so God outwardly prevents us with his Word and inwardly he puts into us the knowledge of his will with the beginnings or seeds of faith and repentance as it were a brain and a heart from these beginnings of faith and repentance arise heavenly desires from these desires follow asking seeking knocking And thus the beginnings of faith are encreased and men go on from grace to grace from one degree of virtue unto another till they be tall men in Christ Iesus Not to be ashamed of the profession of Christ. ST Augustine in his Confessions relates an excellent story of one Victorinus a great man at Rome that had many great friends that were Heathens but it pleased God to convert him to the Christian religion and he came to one Simplicianus and tells him secretly that he was a Christian. Simplicianus answers Non credam nec deputabo te inter Christianos c. I will not believe thee to be a Christian till I see thee openly professe it in the Church At first Victorinus derided his answer and said Ergone parietes faciunt Christianum What! do the church-walls make a christian But after wards remembring that of our Saviour He that is ashamed of me before men c. Mar. 8. 38. he returns to Simplicianus and professeth himself openly to be a christian And let this Text of Christ alwaies sound in our ears also and that of the Revelation where the fearsul such as Nicodemus nocturni adoratores such night-walkers in religion such as are faint-hearted in the profession of Christ are put in the fore-front of those that shall go to hell before murtherers whore-mongers adulterers c. Man to be Sociable IT is to be observed that the farthest Islands in the world are so seated that there is none so remote but that from some shore of it another Island or continent may be discovered as if herein Nature invited Countries to a mutuall converse one with another Why then should any man court and hug solitarinesse why should any man affect to environ himself with so deep and great reservednesse as not to communicate with the society of others Good company is one of the greatest pleasures of the nature of Man for the beams of joy are made hotter by reflection when related to another Were it otherwise gladnesse it self must grieve for want of one to expresse it self to Ministers to live according to that Doctrine which they teach others THere was a ridiculous Actour in the city of Smyrna which pronouncing O● Coelum O Heaven pointed with his finger towards the ground which when Polemo the chiefest man in the place saw he could abide to stay no longer but went from the company in a great chafe saying This fool ●ath made a solectsm with his hand he hath spoken fals Latin with his finger And such are they who teach well and do ill that however they have Heaven at their tongues end yet the Earth is at their fingers end such as do not onely speak fals Latine with their tongue but false Divinity with their hands such as live not according to their preaching But He that sits in the Heavens will laugh them to scorn and hisse them off the stage if they do not mend their action Englands Ingratitude to God SCipio Affricanus the elder had made the city of Rome being at that time exanguem moriturum in a deep consumption and ready to give up the ghost Lady of Affrick At length being banished into a base country-town his will was that his Tomb should have this Inscription on it Ingrata patria ne ossa mea quidem habes Unthankfull country thou hast not so much as my bones Thus many and mighty deliverances have risen from the Lord to this land of ours to make provocation of our thankfulnesse yet Ingrata Anglia ne ossa mea quidem habes may the Lord say Ingratefull England thou hast not so much as the bones of thy Patron and Deliverer thou hast exited him from thy thoughts burried him in oblivion there is scarcely a footstep of gratitude to witnesse to the World that thou hast been protected The Papists blind Zeal discovered RHenanus reporteth that he saw at Mentz in Germany two Cranes standing in silver upon the Altar into the bellies whereof the Priests by a device put fire and frankincense so artificially that all the smoak and sweet perfume came out of the Cranes heaks A perfect emblem of the Peoples devotion in the Romish Church the Priests put a little fire into them they have little warmth of themselves or sense of true zeal and as those Cranes sent out sweet perfumes at their beaks having no smelling at all thereof in themselves so these breathe out the sweet perfumed incense of prayer and zealous devotion whereof they have no sense or understanding at all because they pray in an unknown tongue Saints in glory what they hear and see ST Auguctine was wont to wish three things First that he might have seen Christ in the flesh Secondly that he might have heard St. Paul preach Thirdly that he might have seen Rome in its glory Alas these are small matters to that which Austin and all

Prince no sooner gone bu● the Servant falls to lust and riot forceth the Lady the Controller and the Guardians to the like intemperance which they refusing he dispoyles her of all her Robes and Jewels them of their weapons and turns them out by begger● or pillage to seek their lives in the wide world This Servant is Man God i● the P●ince his daughter the Soul the Controller is Reason and the five Senses th● Guardians Whilest these hinder Man from spoyling his Soul with riot and excesse he abuseth them turns Reason to madnesse and makes all his senses bu● as so many Instruments of Wickednesse but woe to that Servant who when his Lord cometh shall find so doing The several degrees of Faith AS meat digested turns to juice in the stomach to bloud in the liver to spirits in the heart So Faith is in the brain knowledg in the Reason assent in the heart application As the child in the womb hath first a vegetative life then a sensitive lastly a rational So Faith as meer knowledg hath but a Vegetation as allowance but sense onely the application and apportioning the merits of Christ to the Soul by it this is the rational the very life of it To exemplifie this Similitude yet further The vegetative Soul is the Soul of Plants and it is a true Soul in the kind though it have neither sense nor reason The sensitive Soul is the Soul of beasts a true Soul includes Vegetation but is void o● Reason The rational Soul is the Soul of Man a distinct Soul by it self comprehends both Vegetation and sense having added to them both the perfection of Reason So there are three kinds or degrees of Faith 1. To believe there is a God this is the Faith of Pagans and it is a true Faith though it believ● neither the Word of God nor mercy from God 2. To believe what God sayes is true this is the Faith of Devils and Reprobates and a true Faith including the Faith of Pagans and going beyond it yet it apprehends no mercy 3. To believe on God to rely upon his mercy in Christ this is the Faith of the Elect comprehends both the former yet is a distinct Faith by it self The uncertain comfort in Riches CAst but your eye upon a vagrant Fellow whom because he is big-bon'd and well limb'd and able to go through his work a Man takes in at his doors and cherisheth It may so be that for a while he takes pains and plyes his work but when he spyes opportunity the Fugitive servant is gone and takes away with him more then all his service came to Thus the Riches and preferments of this World may seem to stand a Man in some stead for a season but at last they irrecoverably run away and carry with them all his joyes and worldly comforts As Iacob stole away Laban's Idols so they take away the peace and content of heart and leave him desperate As to beware of all Sins so especially of beloved Sins LOok upon a City besieged how wise Governors will take care of ever Postern-door and so every part of the Wall and repair the least decayes thereof but it one Gate be more likely to be entred then another or if any part of the Wall be weaker or more easily to be thrown down then another they will be sure to set the strongest Watch in that place where the danger is most And so it is or should be with us in respect of our most pretious Souls We have here a Fort to keep which is every day assaulted by our Enemies and we have a diseased Soul of our own distempered with many spiritual maladies but some of them are worse then other and some parts of the Fort are weaker and more in danger then others are that is there are some sins as sins whereunto by constitution of body we are most inclined such as are Dalilah bosome beloved-sins by which the Devil more easily surprizeth and captivateth our Souls And therefore as we should set diligent Watch against all sins so we should especially bend our forces against those that do or may in a more especial manner breed our harm and hinder our Salvation The uncertainty of Mans life IT hath been usual with Cathedral Churches and is still in use with Colledges to let Leases of houses and Lands for the term of three lives so that the Purchaser knowes the certainty of his time and that if one life will not hold another shall But it is not so betwixt God and Man there is no Man but is Gods Tenant at will he may put him out of house and home when he list he never deviseth any Tenement longer then for one life the which being expired shall never be renewed again nor will he suffer us to dwell any longer in the best and strongest of his houses then above seventy years if happily some continue eighty their term is exceeding long and yet of all this time they cannot be secured of one half hour not the peaceable possession of one moment so many and so mighty are the Enemies that way-lay them Ferro Peste Fame Vinc●is Algore Calore ● Mille modis miseros Mors rapit una viros By Sword Plague Famine by Bonds by Heat and Cold And a thousand other wayes Death brings us to his Fold What then remains since that our Enemies are so strong our Earthly houses so weak the coming of our Landlord unknown and the term of our Lease so uncertain let us be sober and watching in prayer and then happy shall that servant be whom when his Master cometh he shall find so doing The biting Vsurer described SAd was the condition of the Egyptians when the plague of Flyes was upon them they did so bi●e and sting them that they were weary of their lives Such are all biting Usurers that gorge themselves with the spoyl of their poorer brethren the suckers of their sap the bibbers of their bloud the pinchers of their hearts and the stingers and the wringers of their very Souls who with Noverint universi c. make an universal ruine of many a Man's estate and so fetch him still within the Condition of the Obligation that in the end his Condition is wofull and his heart breaketh with the b●●ter grief of Be it known unto all men How to deal with Sin being once committed AMmon when he had deflowred his Sister Thamar forthwith hated her and that in a far more exceeding manner then he loved her before then puts her out of doors and lo●ks the door after her lest she should return again Thus must we deal with Sin being once committed hate it with a deadly hate put it far from us lock up the doors of our hearts shut up the windowes of our eyes and take up a Resolution of never sinning again How to make a right use of the doctrine of Predestination CArdinal Pool

works but when their minds are raised up to higher things and their thoughts set upon Heaven then their notes are changed they are put into such a tune as is both sweet and pleasant to God himself The great power of fervent Prayer IT is Martin Luther's saying That Prayer is bombarda christianorum the christians gun-shot As then a bullet out of a gun so prayers out of the mouth can go no further then the Spirit carrieth them if they be timidae put out faintly they cannot fly far if they be tumidae hollow-hearted then they will not p●erce much onely the fervent humble active devotion hits the mark and pierceth the walls of Heaven though like those of Gaz● made of brasse and iron c. Esa. 45. 2. University-Learning to be countenanced by men in Authority THe University of Cambridge hath for her Arms A Book clasped between four Lions and Oxford a Book open between three Crowns hereby signifying That English-men may not onely study the liberall Arts closely and quietly but also professe them publickly and openly being guarded with the Lion and the Crown protected thereby and encouraged thereunto by royall Charters and princely priviledges And thus the University of Heidelbergh hath for her Arms a Lion holding a Book in his paw intimating that persons in authority ought to be favourers of all good literature Hence it comes to passe that Universities are the Nurseries of all sorts of learning like the Persian tree which at the same time buds and blossoms and bears fruit some there are ripe for the Church others drawing on to maturity some in the flower others in the bud of hope all advancing themselves for the service of God and their Country The life of Man miserable THe life of man may very well be resembled to a River which as it comes from the Sea so it returns thither again And thus the beginning and ending of our daies may be said to be full of salt-water full of crosses full of misery our first voice a cry our last a groan There may be happily some fair fresh clear water in the way some lucida inter valla some seeming delights and pleasures in the middle age of our life but it passeth away so swiftly that it is no sooner seen but gone Iob 4. 14. Ministers of all men to be painfull in their Calling ARt thou put to be a preacher of the Gospell thou art a labourer Elders that rule well are worthy of double honour Many saies Bishop Latimer can away with praesunt but not with benè if that benè w●re out of the Text all were well If a man might eat the sweet and never sweat it were an easie matter to be a preacher if there were not opus but bonum all were well too But every Clergy-man is or ought to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that as St. Augustine saies is nomen operis to be a steward and overseer in Gods house is an office of great employment Well art thou a student in any profession then as Cato said of Scipio thou must be least idle when thou art most idle thou must read diligently confer often observe daily Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man Joy how to be regulated AS an able workman being to build an house would not have too many windows left thereby he should weaken the house too much nor too few left it should darken it too much So should no man be overjoyed upon the accesse of some prosperous fortune nor over-much transported upon the income of some happy tidings left his too much outward joy should weaken his inward rejoycing Neither must he not rejoyce at all left his spirit become dull and stupid But as the windowes of the Temple were broad without yet narrow within so in the matter of joy he must be full within but somewhat contracted without The study of Divinity most necessary HE that hath a Garden-plot doth as well sow the pot-hearbs as the marjorom as well the leeks as the lilly as well the whol some hysope as the sweet carnation gilliflowre the which he doth to this intent that he may have wholsome hearbs as well to nourish his inward parts as sweet flowers to please his outward senses as well fruitfull plants to refresh his body as fair shews to please his mind Even so he that hath a capacious brain a pregnant wit a fancy that is luxuriant let such a head-piece apply it self as well to the sacred knowledge of Divinity as to Philosophy to a Creator-knowledge as well as a creature-knowledge that so he may reap not onely pleasure but profit not onely contentation in mind but quietnesse and peace of conscience Severall varieties to be found in Scripture AS in Noah's Ark were to be numbered all sorts of creatures or as in eodem prato in the same meadow the ox may lick up grasse the hound may find a hare the bird may pick up seeds the virgins gather flowers and a man find a pearl So in one and the same Scripture are varieties to be found for all sorts of conditions In them the Lamb may wade and the Elephant swim children may be fed with milk and meat may be had for stronger men there 's comfort for the afflicted ease for those that are weary and heavy laden c. Ministers how to preach profitably AS in building of a house first there must be a respect had to the scituation next to the foundation then to the superstructures the contriving of lights and severall rooms lastly the covering to keep all dry So every Minister is to consider the scituation of his Text what 's the coherence what 's the context and then omitting the working of curious cobwebs in the top of the house he must lay the foundation of sound doctrin raise it upon strong pillars of reason glaze it with naturall demonstration and lastly to cover all with usefull application The Scriptures but a dead letter without operation of the Spirit IT is reported of a great person that being desirous to see the sword wherewith Scanderbeg had done so great exploits when he saw it replyed He saw no such great matter in that sword more then any other sword It is truth quoth one standing by you see the sword but not the arm that wielded it So when we look upon the Scriptures the bare word whether printed in our Bibles or audible in the Pulpit we shall finde no such businesse in it more then in other writings but when we consider the arm of Gods power that joynes with it when we look upon the operation of his holy Spirit working therein then we shall change our thoughts and say Nec vox hominem sonat O Deus certe as Iacob did of Bethel Surely of a certain God is in this Word The falls of good Men presage the Nation 's ruine WHen

the Gentiles but I presse hard forward c. and so must we from knowledge to knowledg from virtue to vertue from Faith to Faith from one degree of grace to another unto a perfect Man and unto the measure of the stature of the fullnesse of Christ Ephes. 4. 13. The Lyers reward and punishment AESop tells us a tale how a Town-Shepherd ran to the Village where he dwelt twice or thrice and told the People the Wolves came and were devouring their sheep but when they came out to rescue their Cattle they saw there was no such matter At last the Wolves came indeed and the Shepherd ran into the Town as before crying out That his Sheep were all at the mercy of the cruell Wolves but the People being formerly deceived by this lying Shepherd would not believe him nor step one foot out of doors to save their goods untill they were all destroyed by the salvage beasts his accustomed lyes made them so diffident to believe the truth that they were all undone by the bargain And such is the reward of all Lyers that they shall not be believed when they speak the truth as Demetrius Phalerius being asked What was the fruit and reward of lying answered Quod ne vera quidem dicentibus deinceps fides adhibeatur That after a Man is known to be a Lyer every thing is question'd that he speaks let him have never so much gold in his Chest his words are but brasse and passe for nothing yea he is no better then a dumb Man in effect For it is all one whether one cannot speak or cannot be believed when they do speak In all our doings to think upon Eternity AMongst many other Rites and Ceremonies of elder times in the Consecration of Bishops they had this speech made unto them Habeatis aeternitatem in omnibus cogitationibus vestris Have Eternity in all your thoughts Whether it were so penes sit Authorem but certain it is that at the decollation of the late Archbishop of Cant. Jan. 10. 1644. there stood on either side as he was to passe a generation of People that ecchoed out unto him the like saying Remember Eternity a sweet breath had it not come from corrupt lungs a good Memento had it proceeded from sanctified hearts but it is much to be feared that they spake rather ex livore malitiae quàm ex Zelo justitiae rather out of malice then love to his Soul being not silent many dayes after in quarrelling his Salvation However there is a right good and godly use to be made of the thoughts of Eternity so pretious are they that if Men would but spend one quarter of an hour of every day therein thus thinking with themselves This body of mine though frail and mortal yet must live for ever and this Soul of mine must live eternally It is too too much time that I have spent in seeking after contentment for the flesh but what have I done for my Soul what for Eternity It cannot be imagined what good such thoughts would do For without all doubt there is many a blessed Soul now in Heaven praising and magnifying God that they were so well employed and too many in the neglect thereof howling in Hell for ever Gluttony reproved CLemens Alexandri●us in his Book called Paedagogus maketh mention of the Sea-Asse and citing Aristotle for his Author saith That amongst all other living and sensible Creatures this onely hath his heart in his belly whom Epicharmus an ancient Poet termeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such an one as varies from the ordinary course of Nature And such are all they that do Indulgere genio pamper themselves quorum animi in patinis who mind nothing but their guts and are so given over to their carnal appetite that they take more pains to satisfie it then to please God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose belly is their God Phil. 3. and as Tertullian sets them out 〈◊〉 stomach is their Altar their belly is their God their Priest is their Cook their holy ghost is the smell of their meat the Graces of the Spirit are their sauces their Kitchen is their Church c. thus being transformed from Men to beasts they are led more by their sense and appetite then by Reason and Religion and have their gluttonous panch the chief seat of their Souls not their hearts where it should be Innovations in Church or State very dangerous AMongst the Locrians there was a Statute of that strictnesse that whosoever desired to bring in a new Law he should come and declare it publiquely in the Market-place before the People with an halter about his neck that if his Law was not thought meet to be enacted for the good of the Common-wealth he might presently be hang'd for his desire of Innovation And good reason too For it is very dangerous to innovate any thing either in Church or Common-wealth not but that it is in the power of Supream Authority to change and correct such Lawes as shall seem fit to be changed for the good of the People yet according to the strict Rules of Policy that is not to be done neither but upon pure necessity what apparent profit soever may be pretended to the contrary To be carefull how we come under the evill of a reviling Tongue DAvid upon sad experience compareth a wicked reviling Tongue to three ●atall weapons a Razor a Sword and an Arrow to a Razor Psal. 52. 2. such an one as will take off every little hair so a reviling Tongue will not onely take advantage of every grosse sin committed by others but those peccadilio's the least infirmities which others better qualified cannot so much as discern Secondly to a Sword that wounds so the Men●ut ●ut deeply into the credits and reputations of their brethren but a sword doth mischief onely near hand not afar off And therefore it is in the third place compared to an Arrow that can hit at a distance And so revilers do not ill offices to those onely in the Parish or Town where they live but to other far remote How much then doth it concern every Man to walk circumspectly to give no just cause of reproach not to make himself a scorn to the Fools of the World But if they will Reproach as certainly they will let it be for forwardnesse in Gods wayes and not for Sin that so the Reproach may fall upon their own heads and their scandalous language into their own throats Correction of Children and Servants how to be moderated ST Hierome writing to Celantia a worthy Matron amongst much other good Counsell that he there gives her thus adviseth Famili●m tuam ita rege et con●ove c. That she should so govern her Family and cherish it as that she should rather seem their Mother then their Mistresse and draw from them Reverence rather by loving benignity then rigorous severity and he addes