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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

and Men in authority 308. Kings Princes Rulers c. to hearken to good Counsel 520. Kings Princes c. subject to death as well as the lowest of the people 526. The greatnesse of them no protection from death 526. The state of Kingdoms and Common-wealths best known by the administration of Justice 3. A Kingdome divided within it self cannot long stand 195. The Kingdom of Christ a peaceable Kingdome 247. Kingdoms and Common-wealths their successions from God 309. How it is to know whether a Man belong to Heaven or not 4. God knowes his own People however distressed 46. Impossible for a Man to know all his sins 57. Impossible to know God perfectly in this World 96. How to know Gods dwelling place Heaven 100. How to know whether we are more troubled for sin then for worldly sorrow and trouble 356. Knowledg very usefull in the matter of Reformation 4. Gods knowledg and Mans knowledg the difference of them in the event of things 5. Zeal and knowledg must go hand in hand together 15. Difference betwixt a spiritual and carnall Man in point of knowledg 58. The Saints knowledg of one another in Heaven 68. Windy Knowledg and windy doctrine go together 82. Notional knowledg of God no true knowledg 100. Minister of all men to be men of knowledg c. 134. Experimental Knowledg the onely knowledg 156. 437. The confidence of much knowledg an argument of no knowledg 159. Knowledg not to be reserved 168. Knowledg and practice must go together 173. The great danger of concealed knowledg 192. Knowledg without practice reproved 213. Christians and their knowledg to be communicative 227. Man losing himself in the pursuit after knowledg extraordinary 238. True knowledg never rests on the Creature till it center in God the Creator 259. Knowledg in political affairs very uncertain 267. All knowledg but in part 268. The keys of Knowledg much abused by those that keep them 509. To have a perfect Knowledg of God impossible 532. The knowledg of God through Faith in Christ the way to true happinesse 534. Wherein the true Knowledg of Christ consisteth 556. L. LAughter of the Wicked but from the teeth outward 52. How it is that the Law is said to be the strength of Sin 491. How it is that Christ is said to be end of the Ceremonial law 534. The work of the law preceding the work of the Gospel 559. The Law of God abused by Libertinism 487. Law of God a perfect Law 19. The Law Gods Rhetorick in the delivery of it Man's duty to attend it 133. How to behold our selves in the glasse of Gods Law 246. 630. The Law of God bringing Men to the sight of themselves 297. Multiplicity of Law-S●its condemned 588. Good Lawes and good Men are the pillars of State 150. Lex Talionis 157. 416. Good lawes obeyed are the support of a Common-wealth 175. The great danger of Law suits 207. The tedious length of Law-Suits 213. 524. The known laws of any Nation to be the rule of obedience 293. How it is that Men may be said to learn of little children dumb thews c. 409. Practice of the law abused 430. The downfall of piety and Learning to be deplored 118. Not to admire our own Learning or parts 168. University Learning to be countenanced by men in Authority 219. The necessity of humane Learning 240. Learning and honesty to go together 249. A Man of Learning speaks little 263. The Devills plot to root our Learning 276. 576. Excellency of the Knowledg of Jesus Christ above all humane learning whatsoever 363. The commodity and discommodity of learning 366. Knowledg and learning to be owned in whomsoever they be found 412. The right use of humane learning 421. No Man too good to learn 447. No Man so old but he may learn something 471. The right use of humane learning in Divinity 483. 577. The necessity thereof 484. Much learning to be found in few expressions 567. Impossible to arrive at a full perfection of learning in this life 568. Liberty the cause of licentiousnesse 504. Christian liberty abused by the Sectarian party 27. How it is that Men are so much mistaken in the thoughts of long life 375. Consideration of the shortnesse of life to be a Memento for death 430. The Life of Man subject to all sorts of calamity 61. The pretious life of Man to be preserved 62. An ungodly life will have an ungodly end 101. The brevity of our life may moderate our life 104. The life of Man miserable 219. Changing of this life for a better no matter of grief 280. Man's great vanity in proposing to himself long life 334. The great difference betwixt life spirituall and life natural 370. The uncertainty of Mans life 602. Like to like 234. How to be made like unto Christ 260. Likenesse to be a motive to lovelinesse 414. God must be loved for himself onely 16. Love for the most part is but complemental 8. Want of Love is the cause of all our sorrows 36. Love the bond of all perfection 49. The Love of Gods children is a sincere love 75. The wonderful Love of a true Christian to Christ Jesus 106. The strength of a true Christians Love to Christ 112. Want of Love to be deplored 132. 401. Great engagement to love one another 152. Love to Christ how to be recovered when once lost 236. Christ nothing but Love all over 299. Love to be preserved with all Men 313. The abundant love of Christ in dying for our sins 360. Love Peace and Unity the best supporters of Kingdoms Common-wealths c. 375. The Love of God the onely true love 409. The true love of God will cause familiarity with God 447. How it is and why God loves us 536. The exceeding Love of God to Mankind 550. The Love of Riches very dangerous 571. True brotherly love scarce to be found 613. The difference betwixt true and feigned love unto Christ 650. How our love to the Creature is to be regulated 666. Christians ought to be loving one to another 58. No Man a loser by giving himself up to Christ 38. God being once lost not easily found again 185. The losse of a faithful Ministery not to be sleighted and why so 258. Losse of the Soul irrecoverable 505. The good Man's comfort in matter of worldly losse 464. Not to repine at the losse of Friends and children 522. 670. Losse of good Men not laid to heart condemned 659. Simplicity of Men to be more affected with the losse of things eternal 677. Not to mourn for any outward losses because all is made up in Christ 55. A sad thing to lose both body and Soul together 111. Not to mourn excessively for the losse of any Worldly enjoyment and why so 356. To beware of the lusts of the Flesh 141. The lyars reward and punishment 443. M. A Good Magistrate or Minister is the support of the place where he lives 111. The great comfort of such 539.

the honour of the true God such sacrilegious wretches as rob the Church and enrich themselves with the spoils thereof such as take the houses of God into their own possession and with that Whore in the Proverbs wipe their mouths as if they had done no hurt at all but let all such know that their wealth so gotten shall melt as Snow before the Sun and their Fields of bloud purchased by the spoil of Christ shall prove as unfortunate to them and theirs as the Gold of Tholose did to Scipio's Souldiers of which whoever carried part away never prospered afterwards Prosperity attended by Fears and cares AS Winters thunder is in a Proverbiall speech held to be the Worlds wonder so in the extremity of Summers heat it may chance to thunder as it were afar off but the main claps and noise of Thunder usually fall out in the Spring and Autumnal part of the year when the face of the sky is at the clearest So it is that fears and Jealousies restlessenesse of Spirit and distractednesse of mind are usual concomitants with the prosperous conditions of men and attendant upon such as in the flourishing spring of temporall successe and fruitfull Autumn of Wordly encrease are lifted up on high and puffed up with the vain conceit of their own acquired greatnesse whilest he that is pinched with the winter of Adversity and scorched with the heat of persecuting necessity sings care away comforts himself in the Lord his God lives contentedly and dyes comfortably Perseverance in goodnesse enjoyned IT is the part of a good Workman not to leave his work imperfect A good Physitian will not forsake his Patient when he hath done but half his cure The Husbandman gives not over when he hath sowen but some part of his ground And he that doth but half build an house is but half a Carpenter So he that entereth into the way of Christianity and standeth still is but half a Christian the greatest part of his-work is yet behind It is not enough to begin well but to continue in well-doing It is not so much the entrance into as the Perseverance in goodnesse that is required God left not that great work of the Creation in the first or second day thereof but in six dayes finished it to the glory of his name nor as then in the generation of the Creatures but now also in their Regeneration Whom he loveth he loveth to the end and the good work that he hath begun in any shall be perfected having then so fair a coppy to write by so good an example to live by let us so run that we may obtain so sail in the Sea of this World that we never give over till we arrive in the desired Heaven so to begin as to be sure to make an end that it may be never said to our great and just reproach This Man began to build but was not able to finish Luk. 14. 30. Temptations from within or without how to be dealt withall IF a Man find weeds growing in his Garden and naturally springing out of his own ground he taketh much pains to weed them out but if he seeth that they have no rooting there and are onely cast over the wall by some ill-willer he careth not much for it because he can with as small pains cast them out again as they took that cast them in So if we perceive that the weeds of Temptation are rooted in our sin●ull Nature and spring from our corrupt Flesh we must take the more care and pains to weed them out but if they be onely injected by the malice of Sathan we are not to be so much moved therewith but to cast them out of our minds and hearts as often and as easily as he cast them in Justice to be purely administred THe Graecians placed Iustice betwixt Leo and Libra thereby signifying that there must not be onely courage in executing but also indifferency in determining The Egyptians expresse the same by the Hieroglyphical figure of a Man without hands winking with his eyes whereby is meant an uncorrupt Judg who hath no hands to receive bribes no eyes to behold the person of the poor or respect the person of the Rich And before our Tribunals we commonly have the picture of Man holding a ballance in one hand and a sword in the other signifying by the ballance Just Judgment by the sword execution of Judgment For as the ballance putteth no difference between Gold and Lead but giveth an equall or unequall poyse to them both not giving a greater weight to the gold for the excellency of the mettal because it is Gold nor a lesse to the Lead for the basenesse of it because it is Lead So they were with an eeven hand to weigh the poor Mans cause as well as the Rich but it is most notably set out by the Throne of the House of David which was placed in the gate of the City towards the Sun-rising In the gate to signify that all which came in and out by the gate of the City might indifferently be heard the poor as well as the Rich and might have free accesse and regresse to and from the Iudgment seat And towards the rising of the Sun in token that their Iudgment should be as clear from corruption as the Sun is clear in his chiefest brightnesse There 's no fighting against God THere is mention made of the Psilli a people of low stature and lesse wit silly ones no doubt that being troubled with the Southern wind went out on a day to make war against the same but the farther they went the more it blew untill at last it covered them all with the sands and so they perished And the same end or worse will betide all those that dare adventure to stand at Variance with God such as with the Pigmies dare contend with Hercules and with the Gyants in the Poet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make War against God but let all such know that impar congressus there 's no fighting against God no standing out against his power no resisting his will never any that did so prospered It were then the best way to sue for conditions of peace to lay down arms forbear all acts of hostility and seek unto Iesus Christ the blessed peace-maker betwixt Man and God offended Death put off from one to another PLutark in the life of Solon tells a story that on a time the young men of Ionia standing by the River side where the Milesian Fishermen had newly cast in their net bought of them that present draught And it so happened that when they drew their net unto the shore they found therein besides their Fishes a Golden Table or Trivet which Helena had let fall in that place as she sailed towards Troy Whereupon the buyers required the same as part of their bargain but the sellers would part with nothing but their Fishes The