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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Sin, the chief cause of a Nation or Cities ruine. [ 1779]
PHysitians make the Threescore and third year of a Mans life,* 1.1 a dangerous
Climacterical year to the body Natural; And Statists make the Five hun∣dreth
year of a City or Kingdome as dangerous to the body Politick, beyond
which (say they) Cities and Kingdomes cannot stand: But (which is matter
of Wonder) Who hath ever felt a Cities languishing pulse? Who hath dis∣cerned
the fatal diseases of a Kingdome? found out their Critical daies? Do
they wax weak and heavy, and old and shriveld and pine away with years as
the body of Man? No, they may flourish still and grow green, they may con∣tinue
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as the daies of Heaven,* 1.2 and be as the Sun before the Almighty, if his
wrath be not provoked by their wickednesse; So that it is not any divine aspect
of the Heavens, any malignant Conjunction of Stars and Planets, but the Peoples
loose manners, ungratious lives, and enormous Sins, which are both the chief
cause and symptome of a Kingdome or Cities sicknesse, and they, indeed, soon
bring them to a fearful end and utter desolation.