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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Worldly-mindednesse, a great ••inderance to the com∣fortable
enjoyment of spirituall graces. [ 1271]
WHat the Philosophers say of the Eclipse of the Sun,* 1.1 that it is occasioned by
the intervening of the Moon, between the Sun and our sight, is true in
this case; If the World get between Christ, the Sun of Righteousnesse and our
sight, it will darken our sight of Iesus Christ, and bring Eclipses upon our comforts
and Graces: Again, those Men that dig deep into the bowels of the Earth, they are
oft-times choaked and stifled by damps that come from the Earth: So it is with
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Christians, those that will be ever poring and digging about the things of this
World, it is a thousand to one, that if from worldly things a damp doth not a∣rise
to smother their Comforts, and quench their Graces: Lastly, A Candle,
though it may shine to the view of all, yet put it under ground, and (though there
be not the least puffe of wind) the very damp will stifle the light of the flame; & so
it is that Men may shine like Candles in their comforts, yet bring them but under
the Earth,, and a clod of that will stiflle their Candle, will damp their spirituall
comforts, and bereave them of those joyes that are in themselves unspeak∣able.
Notes
* 1.1
Aristot••les. ••ypr. Lect. Joh. Magirus Mundi amor & Dei pariter in uno corde ha∣bitare non pos∣sunt. Cyprian. de 12. Abus.