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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

of his childre 139. The Soul's delight once set upon God hardly to be removed 183. Gods time the best time for delive●ance 5. God doth not onely deliver but comfort his Children 25. In all deliverances spiritual and temporall to give God the glory 339. God raising up Instruments for the deliverance of his people 551. The workings of God in the deliverance of his people various 648. Spiritual desertions no distractions to the child of God 49. How it is that there may be partial des●rtions of spirituall grace in the Souls of Gods dearest children but never totall nor final ones 383. Gods love to his children in the midst of spiritual desertions 395. Gods comfortable presence in the midst of spiritual desertions 397. Not to be over-hasty in the desire of Justice for wrongs sustained 7. The godly Man's desires are above his reach 122. The true Christian's desires are all for Heaven 394. Desperation the complement of all sins 317. The desperate Sinner's madnesse 454. D●struction is from our selves 164. 659. Not so much the quantity as the quality of Devotion acceptable to God 15. The great benefit of devotion at bed time 247. The Devil a deceiver deceived by Christ 30. The Devil suiting himself to all humours 48. Satan's restlesse uncessant employment 49. Satan tempteth by degrees 68. Desp●rate Devils 85. Satan subdued by Christs death 126. His policy to defile the Soul with sin 289. The Devill rewarding his servants 500. The Devils cunning to deceive 578 637. The Devils rage and arguments of the Judgment day at hand 626. Why it is that the children of God die usually sooner then others 522. All must die 341 522. We dye daily 162. Wisemen dye as well as Fools 478. Many seem to be willing yet are loath to dye 64 76. Man alwaies in a dying condition 12. We must learn to live well before we desire to dye 65. D●scretion the guid of all Religious actions 574. A main part of true Wisedome 650. Discord ill-becomes the Disciples of Christ 43. Discord in Church or Common-wealth prejudicial 58. The deepest dissembler at one time or other discovered 478. Civill Dissention attended by uncivill destruction 13. Dissention the Fore-runner of confusion 626. Distractions will prove destructions 8. Englands distractions to be Englands peaceable directions 193. Dangerous to interpose with a divided People 74. Division amongst Christians is the disgrace of Christians 44. All divisions are against Nature 75. The danger of Divisions 94 317. Divisions usher in destruction 204. The evill of Division 474. Divisions in Church and State to be prevented 559. The stu●y of Divinity necessary 220. The study of School-divinity not altogether necessary 241. False doctrine is treason against God 44. To do as we would be done by is praise-worthy 163. Dreams not altogether to be sleighted 1. The right use that is to be made of Dreams 237. A drunkard hardly to be reclaimed 87. Drunkennesse cond●mned 140. Drunkennesse the shame of England 190. The encrease of drunkennesse in England 206. Drunkennesse Whoredome c. the generality of them 281. The scoffing drunkards sad condition 472. To be careful of extraordinary drinking 474. Excessive drinking condemned 475 580. Drunkennesse a great punishment of it self 483. To be carefull of our Duty of God and Man 10. Not to rest in outward performance of duty because dangerous 178. Compleat Christian duty 383. Neglect of the main duties of Christianity reproved 388. Men to be constant in performance of holy duties 396. Constancy of holy duties makes the performance of th●m easy 442. Holy duties call for holy preparation 469. The sins of our Religious duties corrected by Christ and then presented to his Father 633. E GOds decree of Election not to be made the proper obj●ct of Faith 656. Mans happinesse consistech onely in Gods free Election 288. The true comfort of Election 586. How to be assured of our Election 586. Election known by Sanctification 76. Gods fundamentall love of Election and actuall love of Adoption how distinguished 261. To make our calling and Election sure 488. Eloquence if not affected an excellent gift of God 284. Eloquence not to be abused 306. Good endeavours assisted by God 157. All endeavours to be sanctified by prayer 551. The Churches Enemies in Gods hands 13. A Forreign Enemy to be prevented 34. To love our Enemies and do them good 73. How it is that we may hate our Enemies 138. 112. The great good which cometh by Enemies 112. Not to envy each others gifts and prefermen●s 29. The great power of Envy 173. The destructive quality of Envy 518. The incorrigibility of Errour 184. To beware of erronious doctrine 243 417. The obstinate Sinner deserving Eternity of punishment and why so 12. Eternity of punishment in Hell 97. to be considered 442. In all our doings we should have our eye uppon Eternity 103 443. Not to serve time but Eternity 202. Nothing but Eternity will satisfy the gratious Soul 438. In the midst of worldly enjoyments to mind Eternity 440. The evill of Excesse 616. A wicked Man hardly drawn to examine himself 107. Daily Examination of our selves the comfort of it 294. Gods choice of eminent persons to be Exemplary to others 13. Rulers actions Exemplary 32. A good Man will be a good Example to others 127. The dangerous Example of wicked Governours 192. The prevalency of a good Example 256. Christ to be our Example and pattern of imitation in life and death 484. Wicked men reserved for exemplary judgment 507. Magistrates and men in authority to be exemplary to others 516 531. Christ to be our example in bearing the Cross 624. The sufferings of Christ as so many Examples to teach us how to suffer 677. Experience of Gods love to be a motive unto better obedience 126. The experimented Christian the onely undaunted Christian 596. Mans extermity Gods opportunity 408. F. A Factious-spirited Man unfit for the work of the Ministery 21. Ring-leaders of Faction and Schism their condition deplorable 391. Factious hearers of the Word condemned 460. The happy succession of a Christian Family 423. Wicked persons may be in a good Family 461. The unhappinesse of a disordered Family 655. How to make tryall of Faith whether it be perfect or not 644. The great benefit of Faith truly appropriated 665. Faith and love inseperable 671. Complaint of the want of Faith an argument of true Faith 35. More comfort in a strong Faith then a weak one 435. The life of Faith the happy life 40. Faith is the Fountain of all Graces 51. The gradation of Faith 53. The tryall of Faith is the enlargement of Faith 74. Justifying Faith accompanied with good works 98. The certainty of Faith 111. Faith makes partakers of every good thing in Gods ordinances 113. Faith in the time of tryall needful 150. How Faith justifieth alone 163 151. The power of Faith reviving the deadly sin-sick Soul 177. The great power of Faith seated in the heart of Man 229. The least measure

c. or such as it may be are driven to and fro by Sea and Land as having no abiding place of rest or safety where to repose themselves yet here 's their hope here their comfortable assurance that maugre the malice of Men and Devils they shall be either in Heaven or under Heaven though they have no abiding place on Earth below yet they have one prepared for them eternally in the Heavens above The not growing in Grace reproved LOok but upon a company of Ants or Pismires how busie they are about a Mole-hill how they run to and fro and weary themselves in their severall movings yet never grow great but as to the slender proportion of their bodies are still the same And such are many Christians in these dayes many Professors in our times who go from one Ordinance to another and yet make little progresse or encrease in Religion such as run from one Church to another from one Preacher to another and it may be from one opinion to another but never grow up to the true Grace and in the true knowledge of the Lord Iesus Whilst we are here in this World to provide for Heaven hereafter THere is mention made of a Nation that use to chuse their Kings every year and whilst they are in their annuall government they live in all abundance of State have all the fulnesse their hearts can wish but when the year is once over all their pomp and glory is over too and they banished into some obscure remote place for ever One King hearing this being called to rule over that Nation made such use of his time that in the year wherein he raigned as King he was not lavish in spending his Revenues but heaped up all the Treasure he could get together and sent it before him to that place whither he should be banished And so in that year of his Goverment made a comfortable provision for all his life time afterwards Thus it is that God hath given to every one of us a time to live here in this world and but a little time at the most it may be not a week not a day not an hour It will be then the greatest part of our wisdome that whilst we are here in the way to salvation and suck at the breasts of those Ordinances that may feed us to eternall life and draw at those Wells called in Scripture The wels of Salvation now to lay up for the time of our banishment before we go hence and be no more seen and be sure that whilst we are in this world to provide for Heaven hereafter As we are called Christians to bear up our selves like Christians ALexander the great when he was invited to run a Race amongst the common Multitude He gave them this answer Were I not the Son of a King I did not care what company I kept but being the Son of a Prince I must employ my selfe in such company as is s●table to my birth and breeding Thus stood he then upon the honour of his Family and would not disgrace his Princely nature so farre as to be familiar amongst the vulgarrabble And thus must every one of us do We have each of us a race to run for so the waies of Christianity are called We are as Alexander was Kings and Princes in all Lands Now so it is that Sin as a Vagabond and loose Companion would seek to converse with us The Devills aim is that we should mixe our selves with such lusts and such sins as he presents unto us Lust would have our hearts and Sin would have our affections both of them strive to be familiar with us But let us answer them from a noble and generous mind as Alexander did That we will not so abase and dishonour our selves as to mix or joyn our selves with the base and common things of this World but stand upon the honour of our spirituall birth and do nothing that may any way be dishonourable to the excellency of our high Calling in Christ Iesus To take especial care for the Soul's safety IT is observable that if Merchants venture a great or most part of their Estates at Sea where there may be hazzard in the voyage they will run speedily to ensure a great part of their Commodities And thus should all of us do ●his bodie of ours is the ship the Merchandize and freight in this ship is no lesse then our most precious soul●s Glory caelestiall is the Port whereat she would arrive but many dangers there are in the way storms and Tempests of Temptations are on every side she may chance to run upon the Rocks of Presumption or sink into the quick sands of ●ispair What is the● to be done By all meanes go to the ensuring Office let us run to the Testimony of Christs spirit in our own spirits by the Word to evidence and make it out clear unto us That the Ship shall be safe the Commoditie brought secure to the Haven that ship body and soul and all shall anchor safely in Heaven there to rest with Christ in glory for evermore Idlenesse the very inlet to all Temptations IT was the speech of Mr. Greenham sometimes a painfull Preacher of this Nation That when the Devill temp●ed a poor soul she came to him for advice How she might resist the Temptation and he gave her this answer Never be idle but be alwayes well employed For in my own experience I have found it when the Devill came to tempt me I told him that I was not at leasure to hearken to his Temptation and by this means I resisted all his assaults Thus must all of us do when the Devill comes to tempt any of us say I am not at leasure to lend an ear to thy Temptation I am otherwise employed I am in the work of my God busied in the work of my lawfull Calling and taken up with the thoughts of Gods blessings thereupon then he will never be able to fasten upon thee for so it is that he never gets advantage of any Man or Woman but either when they are out of Gods way or idle or have their hands in some sinfull action then it is that they do even tempt the Tempter to tempt them and lay themselves open to a world of sinne and wickednesse Action the very life of the Soul WHilst the stream keeps running it keeps clear but if it comes once to a standing water then it breeds Frogs and Toads and all manner of filth The Keyes that Men keep in their pocke●s and use every day wax brighter and brighter but if they be laid aside and hang by the walls they soon grow rusty Thus it is that Action is the very life of the Soul Whilst we keep going and running in the wayes of Gods Commandements we keep clear and ●ree from the Worlds pollutions but if we once flagge in our diligence

to play before him promised them a great Reward having plaid a long time they expected their pay but he told them they were paid already since as they had pleased him with Musical sounds so he them with windy hopes of Reward But God deals not so with his servants he feeds them not with vain hopes but sure accomplishment of his gracious promises there being a Reward for the Righteous and he Faithful that hath promised it who saith Behold I come quickly and my Reward is with me Rev. 22. 12. God onely to be served WHen the Souldiers had chosen Valentinian to be their Emperour they were consulting how they might joyn a Partner with him To whom Valentinian replyed It was in your power to give me the Empire when I had it not Now I have it it is not in your power to give me a Partner Thus if God be our God Mammon must be our slave He that is the servant of God must be Master of his Money If God be our King he must be our King onely for the Bed and the Throne brook no Rivalls God must be our God alone Aequum est Deos fingere ac Deum negare It is all one to chuse new Gods and to deny the true God No let the Heathens chuse new Gods and forsake the true God but let every good Christian say Thou O Father of Mercy and Lord of Heaven and Earth be my God and my onely God for ever and ever To be at Gods will and disposall is the best condition IT is storied of a young Virgin that at a great Princes hands had the choice of three Vessels One whereof was Gold richly wrought and set with pretious stones and on it was written Who chuseth me shall have what he deserveth The second was of silver superscrib'd thus Who chuseth me shall have what Nature desireth The third was of Lead whose Motto was this Who chuseth me shall have what God hath disposed The former pleased her eye well but not her understanding It offered what she deserved She knew that was just nothing therefore refused it The second considered offered w●at Nature desires She thought that could be for no solid good For Nature desires such things as please the carnall lust This she also refused The third had a coorse outside but the sentence pleased her well offering what God had disposed So the Faithfull Soul put her self upon Gods Ordinance and chose tha● The Virgin is Ma●s Soul The Golden Vessel is the Worlds riches contentfull enough to an avaritious eye Too too many chuse this but being opened it was full of dead Mens bones and a Fools bable to set them down for very Ideots which cleave to the present World and at last have all their hopes rewarded with Folly The silver Vessel is the lust of the Flesh those fond and vain delights which Concupisence so much hunts after So saith the Motto It gives what Nature desireth This Vessel opened was full of wild fire and an Iron● whip intimating that God will scourge the lustfull with the whip of Judgments as diseases of body infamy of name over●hrow of estate and vexation of Conscience The leaden Vessel is as the sense and sentence declares it The blessing of God The chuser of it shall have what God hath disposed for him shall be contented with the providential penny that comes in daily And in a blessed happy condition is that Soul that makes this Election for opened it was found to be full of Gold and pretious stones every one more worth then a World the immortal graces of Gods Spirit The Virgin chose this and she was married to the Kings Son and so shall every Soul that makes the like choice No matter though it seems lead without and glister not with outward Vanities it is rich within the wealth thereof cannot be valued though all the Arithmetical Accomptants should make it their design to cast it up Neglect in the Hearing of Gods Word dangerous HErodotus hath a merry tale of a Piper how he came to the water side and piped to the fishes but they would not dance then he took his net and caught some of them and being thrown upon the land they began to leap and skip up Nay quoth the Pipe● I offered you Mu●●ck before and you would none now you shall dance without a Pipe Thus it is that most Men commonly regard the songs of Sion the preaching of Gods Word as some men do Musick heard late at midnight in the streets whilst they are in bed perhaps they will step to the window and listen to it a while and presently to bed again step from the couch of their lusts to Church hear the Sermon commend the Preacher for a good Man and then to bed again lulling themselves in their former security but let such know that if God have given them Musick and they will not dance if God have afforded Orthodoxall Preachers and they will not hear as Christ reproved the Iews they shall mourn in sadnesse for their obstinate refusall of proffered mirth and say with heavinesse of spirit There was a Prophet amongst us How Sins may be said to out-live the Sinner IT is said of a Lawyer that resolving not to be forgotten he made his Will so full of intricate quirks and quillets that his Executors if for nothing else for very vexation of Law might have cause to remember him Thus the Incloser of Commons sinneth after he is dead even so long as the poor are deprived of that benefit He that robbbeth the Church of a due and so leaves it to his heir Sins after he is dead even so long as God is made to lose his right The unjust decree of a partial Judg may out-live him even so long as the judged Inheritance remains in a wrongfull possession but e● contrà we say of a charitable good Man that he doth good after he is dead his alms maintain many poor Souls on Earth when his Soul is happy in heaven Heaven to be alwaies in our thoughts IT is reported of a Reverend Preacher that sitting amongst other Divines and hearing a sweet consort of Musick as if his Soul had been born up to Heaven took occasion to think and say thus What Musick may we think there is in Heaven Another taking a serious view of the great pomp and state at Court upon a Collar-day spake not without some admiration What shall we think of the glory in the Courts of the King of Heaven And thus must we do as we read the book of Nature be still translating it into the book of Grace as we plod on the great Volume of Gods works be sure to spell on the word of use of instruction of comfort to our selves the spiritualizing of Earthly things is an excellent art And that 's a happy object and well-observed that betters the Soul in grace A

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