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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[ 1440] Every thing in specie made perfect at one and
the same time in the Creation.
ALL Artists in what they do have their second thoughts (and those usually
are the best);* 1.1 As for Example, A Watchmaker sets upon a piece of Work,
(it being the first time that ever Men were wont to carry a Passe-time in their
pockets) but having better considered of it, he makes another, and a third, some
ovall, some round, some square, every one adding lustre and perfection to the
first invention, (whereas heretofore they were rather like Warming-pans to weary
us, then warning-pieces to admonish us how the time passed;) The like may
be said of the famous art of Printing, Painting, and the like, all of them ou••∣doing
the first copies, they were set to go by. But it was not so with God in the
Creation of the several species of Nature, he made them all perfect simul et se∣mel,
at one and the same time, every thing pondere et mensura, so just, so propo••∣tionate
in the parts, such an Elementary harmony, such a symmetry in the bodies
of Animals, such a correspondency of Vegetals, that nothing is defective, nei∣ther
can any thing be added to the perfection thereof.
Notes
* 1.1
Tho. White Sermon at S. Giles Crip∣plegate, Lond. 1653.