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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[ 1178] An account of Gods knowledge, not to he made out by
the wisest of men.
THere is a place in Wiltshire, called Stonage; for divers great stones lying
and standing there together: Of which stones it is said, That though a man
number them one by one never so carefully, yet that he cannot find the true
number of them, but finds a different number from that he found before. This may
serve to shew very well, the crring of mans labour, in seeking to give an account
of divine wisdom and knowledge; for all his Arrowes will fall short, if he have no
other Bow but that of Reason to shoot in; though his diligence be never so great,
his learning never so eminent, and his parts never so many, in making up the
reckoning, he will be alwaies out, and not be ever able to say, as Martin Luther,
when he had been praying in his closet, for the good successe of the consultation
about Religion, in Germany, Vicimus, vicimus, We have prevailed, we have pre∣vailed;
but rather cry out with the Apostle, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 &c. O the depth of the riches
both of the wisdome and knowledge of God!How unsearchable are his judgments, and his
waies past finding out!