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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[ 1133] God exercising the Graces of his Children.
THe Nurse goeth aside from the Child to teach it to find its feet,* 1.1 and see how
it will go alone; The Eagle, when her young ones are fledg'd, turneth
them out of the nest, not beareth them on her wings, as at other times she was
wont to do; but that she may enure them to flie, flyeth from them, and lea∣veth
them to shift for themselves: Thus God seems to withdraw himself from
his Children,* 1.2 no exercise those excellent Graces of Patience and confidence in him,
that like Tapers burn clearest in the dark; to teach them to swim without blad∣ders,
and to go without crutches; as not to trust in themselves, so not to trust in the
means, but in him that worketh by them, and can as well work for them without
them, when they fail.