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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The Carnal Professor described. [ 1702]

IT is observed of the Ostrich, a kind of a bird-beast, half a bird of the ayr, and half a beast of the Earth,* 1.1 that he hath such a weighty body, that he cannot raise up himself to flye aloft, yet flickereth in such wise, and moveth so fast by the help of his wings,* 1.2 that he cannot be out-gone by some of the swiftest of othr reatures: And such are all Carnal Professors, all holy unho∣ly Worldlings, that will needs mingle Heaven and Earth together, that will seem to have their conversation in Heaven, when yet their affections weigh them down to the Earth,* 1.3 so that contrary to the Apostles rule, they will Deo mili∣tare et saeculo se implicare, be Gods Souldiers, and the Worlds Solicitors; Nay,

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contrary to our Saviours rule. Deo, & Mammonae servire, divide their service betwixt God and Mammon.* 1.4

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