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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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61120.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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may better be brought to find what need they have of their Nurse. The best of us all are but babes in grace, yet do we think that we can stand of our selves, yea, and run the waies of God too; now God doth refute us by our own experience, and by this Mistresse of fools, makes us better known to our selves: But though he leave us for a time, yet doth he not forsake us for ever, no more than a Nurse doth the weakling child; she maketh use of one fall, to keep the child from many; and God doth make use of our sinning, to make us see how prone we are to sin, and so prevent us for the future.
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T. Lightfoot's Serm. at 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Stafford-shire, 1642.