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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[ 1251] Faith to be preserved as the head of all Graces, and why so?
IT is observed,* 1.1 that the Serpent is of all things most carefull of his head, because
he well knowes, though he be cut and mangled never so much in the body, or
any part of it, yet if his head be but whole, it will cure all the wounds of the
other members. And such wisdom ought all of us to have, to labour above all
things to keep our head, our faith, whole and sound, to make sure of that, what∣soever
we do; because if any thing else receive a wound, if any other of our graces
have, as it were, even lost their spirituall strength and vigour, faith will renew
them again; but if this once suffer shipwrack, it will cost many a sigh,
many a tear, many a groan in the spirit, before it be recovered again: for,
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without it, all other graces decay and perish, are as in a winter-condition of bar∣rennesse
without it; yet, if it do but appear, there will be a spring-tide of all
spirituall blessings whatsoever.
Notes
* 1.1
Ulys••es Aldro∣vand. de Serp. Serpens mini∣um curat si cor∣p••s incidatur &c. Chrysost. homil. 24. in Matth.