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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Sathans subtilty in laying his Temptations. [ 1346]
AN Enemy before he besiegeth a City,* 1.1 surroundeth it at a distance, to see
where the wall is the weakest, best to be battered; lowest, easiest to be scaled;
ditch narrowest to be bridged,* 1.2 shallowest to be waded over; what place is not
regularly fortified; where he may approach with least danger, and assault with
most advantage: So Sathan walketh about, surveying all the powers of our
Souls, where he may most probably lay his temptations, as whether our Under∣standings
are easier corrupted with errour, or our Fancies with levity, or our
Wills with frowardnesse, or our Affections with excesse, &c.