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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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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1658.
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[ 1120] The sad condition of Man falling away from God.
COmets and Meteors that hang in the ayr, so long as they keep aloft in the fir∣mament
of Heaven,* 1.1 they glitter and shine, and make a glorious and caelestiall
lustre in the eyes of all beholders; but if once they decline from that pitch, and
fall down to the Earth (as many times they do) they vanish and disappeare,
and come to nothing; Such is the case betwixt a Man and his God, as long
as a Man holds in good tearmes with God, and sets his affections up∣on
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things above,* 1.2 so long will God cast his favour upon him, and he shall sbine
as a light in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: But if once he decline
from that pitch, and fall down from a godly conversation, into an earthly, idle,
ungodly disposition;* 1.3 'tis a venture, but his prosperity will fall away, and his latter
end grow worse than his beginning.