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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The Laity abused by the Roman Clergy in the matter of Confession. [ 1714]

IT is mentioned in a Fable, how the Woolf, the Fox, and the Ass went to shrift together,* 1.1 to do penance: The Woolf, confesseth himself to the Fox, who easily absolveth him; The Fox doth the like to the Woolf and receiveth the like favour: After this the Ass comes to Confession, and his fault was, that being hungry he had taken one straw from the sheaf of a Pilgrim travailing to Rome, whereof he was heartily penitent; but that would not serve, the law was executed se∣verely upon him, he was slain and devoured. By the Woolf is meant the Pope: by the Fox,* 1.2 his Cardinals, Iesuites and Priests; these quickly absolve one another, how hainous soever their offences are: but when the poor Ass, that's the Ro∣mish ridden Laity come to shrift, though his offence be not the weight and worth of a straw, yet on his back shall the rigour of the Law be laid, he shall be sure to pay for all.

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* 1.1

In lib. vocat. Poenitent. Asini.

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* 1.2

A chi manca ••n asino facia metter la cella, &c.

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