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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Christ Jesus, the good Mans chief portion. [ 1457]

WHen Alexander the Great passed into Asia,* 1.1 he gave large donatives to his Captains and Men of merit, insomuch, that Parmenio asked him; Sir, What do you keep for your self? He answered, Hope; And Iohn of Alexandria sirnamed the Almoner, did use yearly to make even with his Revenues,* 1.2 and when he had distributed all to the Poor, he thanked God, that he had now no∣thing left him, but his Lord and Master Christ Iesus, to whom he longed to fly

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with unlimed and untangled wings: Thus we can want nothing if we want not Christ, he is the good Mans chief portion: Crosses, calamities, poverty may take from us all the goods of this World,* 1.3 or our Charity may give them away; The Worldlings ask us, VVhat we have left for our selves? We answer, Onely Iesus Christ, and in him we have all things.

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