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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Piety and Policy not inconsistent. [ 1719]
FAbles are not without their usefull Moralls; A Boy was molested with a
Dog; the Fryer taught him to say a Gospel by heart, and warranted this to
allay the dogs Fury. The Mastiff (alias Maze-Thief, in the original Saxon) spy∣ing
the boy, flyes at him; he begins (as it were) to conjure him with his Go∣spel.
The Dog (not capable of such Gospel-doctrine) approacheth more violent∣ly:
A Neighbour passing by, bids the boy take up a stone, he did so, and throw∣ing
at the dog, escaped: The Fryer demands of the Lad, how he sped with his
charm? Sir, (quoth he) your Gospel was good, but a stone with the Gospel did the deed.
And most true it is, that prayers and tears are good weapons, but not the onely
weapons of the Church. It is not enough to bend the knee, without stirring the
hand; Shall Warr march against us with thunder; and shall we assemble our
selves in the Temple, lye prostrate on the pavements, lift up our hands and eyes
to Heaven, and not our weapons against our Enemies? shall we beat the ayr
with our voyces, and not their bosoms with our swords? onely knock our own
breasts, and not their pates? Sure, a Religious Conscience never taught a Man
to neglect his life, his liberty, his estate, his peace: Piety and Policy are not oppo∣sites;
He that taught us to be harmlesse as Doves, bad us also be wise as Serpents.