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 aftr 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,* 1.3 Grave cum tllis, &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 straited, thou shalt find more and more enlargement, every day more comfort then other.

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