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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Danger of distracted Prayer. [ 1048]

AS long as Dinah stayed at home in her fathers house,* 1.1 she remained a chast and beautifull Damosell;* 1.2 but when a gadding fit came upon her, that she must range abroad to see fashions, Shechem, Prince of that Country, met with her, and forced her virginity. This is the right condition of every prayer, that men put up unto God Almighty; so long as we commune betwixt God and our own hearts, and keep close unto him, there will be a comfortable return made, of that we pray for;* 1.3 but if Dinah-like, our hearts must needs be roving after vanity, and taken up with the thoughts of worldly things, then it is no wonder, if the devill, that Prince of the air, seize upon us, and lead us captive at his will: so that it were better not to have prayed at all, then to have offered the sacrifice of such foolish and distracted devotion.

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* 1.1

Gen. 34. 2.

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* 1.2

T. Fletcher Ser. at S. Mich. Bassishaw. Lon. 1649.

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* 1.3

Despiciuntur o∣rationes leves, saecuti curae an∣xiae, &c. Am∣bros. in Psalm.

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