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 ...

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Title: 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 ...
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[ 1013] Regeneration the onely work of Gods spirit.

IT is said of the Bear,* 1.1 that of all Creatures she bringeth the most ugly & mishapen whelps, but by licking of them, she brings them to a better form, yet it is a Bear still. Thus all of us are ugly and deformed in our inward man: 'Tis true, good breed∣ing, learning, living in good Neighbourhood, may lick us fair, and put us into a better shape, but shall never. change our nature, without the operation of the blessed Spirit: A Man may be able to discourse of the great mysteries of Salvati∣on, yet not be changed;* 1.2 may repeat Sermons, yet not renewed; pertake of the Ordi∣nances, yet not regenerated; not any of these, nor any of all these put together, will stand in stead till it hath pleased God to square them, and fit them, and sancti∣fie them unto us by the blessed assistance of his holy Spirit.

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* 1.1

Ulys. Aldro∣van. lib. de Quadruped. Gesnerus.

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* 1.2

Nulla in discen•• do mor•• est, ubi Spiritus. doctor adest. Beda. hom. 9. in Luc.

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