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 necessity of divine Meditation. [ 1211]
IT is generally observed,* 1.1 that a Man which casteth up his food soon after he
hath eaten it, may by the vertue of some small reliques that remain behind in
the stomach, live for a good time in a weak estate and poor plight, but will
never be fat, healthy and strong, if the meat be not retained, concocted and ap∣plyed
to the several parts: Thus Meditations is the food of our Souls, or the
very stomach and natural heat whereby it is disgested; Well may our Souls live
a kind of spiritual life by hearing and reading the Word,* 1.2 yet for want of Medi∣tation,
and thinking of it afterwards, they retain little of that spiritual food, but
cast up all again, saving some small remainders which upon occasion will come
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into their minds; yet for all this, they cannot be in any good plight, or have
any spiritual growth, unlesse they disgest what they hear and read by Meditation,
and making it truly their own by applying it home to their own Souls and
Consciences.