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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[ 1319] How it is, that Faith challengeth a superiority above other Graces.
TAke a piece of Wax,* 1.1 and a piece of Gold of the same Magnitude, the Wax
is not valuable with the Gold; but as this Wax hangs at the labell of some
Will, by vertue of which, some great Estate is confirmed and conveyed, so
it may be worth many hundred pounds. So Faith considered purely in it self,
doth challenge nothing more then other Graces,* 1.2 nay, in some sense it is inferiour,
it being an empty hand; But as this hand receives the pretious Alms of Christ's
Merits, and is an Instrument or channel, thorow which the blessed streams of
life flow to us from him; so it doth challenge a superiority over, and is more ex∣cellent
then, all other Graces whatsoever.