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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[ 1452] The Folly of Men in parting with their Souls
for trifles.
WE laugh at little Children to see them part with rich Jewels for silly tri∣fles:
And who doth not wonder at the Folly of our first Parents,* 1.1 that
would lose Paradise for an Apple? and of Esau that sold his birth-right for a
messe of Pottage? yet alasse, daily experience doth proclaim it, that many are
so childish to part with such rich and pretious Jewels as their immortal Souls for
base unworthy trifles; and so Foolish as to lose the coelestial Paradise, the
kingdome of Heaven for Earthly vanities,* 1.2 of whom it may be truely said, as Au∣gustus
Caesar in another case; They are like a Man that fishes with a golden hook,
the gain can never recompence the losse that may be sustained.