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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Title: 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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[ 169] If the Soul be safe, all's safe.

IF the vessell be saved,* 1.1 though the wares be spoyled with the sea-water, or cast over ship-board, yet we may arrive at the haven, and there be in safety: If the Field be gotten by us, (as Alexander told Parmenio) our baggage and horses will be recovered again with advantage: If a Tree be sound at the root, there is hope that it will sprout out,* 1.2 notwithstanding it should be lopped, and shred never so much; but if it be rotten at the root, fare it well. In like manner, if the soul be safe, if it live by faith in the Son of God, if it fight the good fight of faith, and win the field, all other losses are not to be reckoned of; we are more then gainers, more then conquerours. But if the soul perish, (and it will perish, except it be fed with the Word of the Gospell; and it will make shipwrack, if Christ sit not at the stern; and it will be overcome, if Christ be not the Captain, Saviour, and Deliverer) then all the world is gone with us, it had been better with us we had never been born.

Notes

* 1.1

Diodorus. lib. 17.

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* 1.2

B. Smith's Ser. on Joh. chap. 6. Bonum animae pretiosius est om∣nibu•• bonis. Arist. lib. 7. polit.

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