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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To be diligent Hearers of the Word of God,
and remember what we hear. [ 1401]
IT is said of our Country, That we have fair houses, but bad Chimneys, be∣cause
there is so little smoke of Hospitality.* 1.1 And it may as truly be said, That
we have excellent ears, but bad Memories; quick conceptions, bad retentions,
Not a Nation under Heaven hears so many good Sermons, not a Nation under
Heaven sooner forgets them. Many Arts are taught amongst us, of quick-read∣ing,
of short-writing, where, by Brachygraphical characters they will take a
Sermon, verbatim: But there is one Art, it were heartily to be wished, that some
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good body would teach it us, It is the Art of Memory; That as Sermons are ta∣ken
word for word in our papers,* 1.2 so they might be written sense for sense in our
hearts.