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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The way of Religion irksome in the beginning, but comfortable in the end. [ 1171]
AN Heyser that is not used to the yoke struggles,* 1.1 the yoke pincheth the
neck, but after a while she carries it more gently: A new Suite, though
never so well fitted to a Mans body, is not so easie the first day, as aft••r it is worn
awhile: Two Mill-stones, after they be made fit, do not grind so well at the
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first, as afterwards; As we see it is with a Man, when he goes to bathe himself
in the midst of Summer, there is a trembling of his body, when he first puts in∣to
the water, but after he hath drench't himself all over, he is not sensible of
any cold at all; So the way of Piery and Religion,* 1.2 is irksome at the first, but
after it gives great comfort and contentment; It is called a yoke,* 1.3Grave cum
t••llis, &c. grievous when a Man takes it up, but after it is born awhile, both
easie and light: It is a straight way, yet try it, put into it however, do but dis∣gest
the di••••iculty of the entrance,* 1.4 and then thy feet shall not be strait••ed, thou
shalt find more and more enlargement, every day more comfort then other.
Notes
* 1.1
Jos. Shu••e Serm. before East-India Company. 1630. Omnia dum in∣cipias, gravia sient, &c. Ter. Heaut.