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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Why God suffereth the dearest of his Children to want
outward things. [ 1127]
IT is written of the Pine-tree,* 1.1 that if the bark be pulled off, it will last a long
time; else it rots. So God sees, that many a man, if he had his bark 〈◊〉〈◊〉 him, if he
had the wealth of the world about him,* 1.2 a penny in his purse, and a friend at Court,
it would rot him, corrupt him, and make him worse; therefore God is fain to bark
him, and peel him; to keep him naked, and bare, and poor, that his so••l may pro∣sper
the better: For indeed, many times it so falls out, and a man shall find it so,
that his soul prospers best, when his body prospers ••orst.