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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Man's being is from God. [ CXLVII]
ABen Ezra,* 1.1 a learned Rabbi of the Iewes, hath a witty conceit of the Hebrew
names, that signifie Man and Woman, Ish and Ishak; they have in them (saith
he) some letters, that are part of the Name of God, (JEHOVAH) which if you take
away, there will remain no other letters, than those that make up the word, which
signifies fire. The Morall of the conceit is, That their subsistence is in God, and
they will both come to ruine,* 1.2 if they be severed from him. St. Paul maketh this
good, It were to be wished that we did all learn of him, whence to take, and how to
make the estimate of our Being, we should not then so much overvalue our nothing,
and undervalue that which can make us something, as commonly we do.