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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[ 1782] Death of the Soul more to be lamented, then the death of the body.

ST. Augustine confesseth,* 1.1 That in his youth (as many Wantons do) he read, that amorous discourse of Aeneas and Dido with great affection, and when he came to the death of Dido, he wept for pure compassion; But, O me miserum! (saith the good Father) I ••ewailed (miserable Man that I was) the fabulous death of Dido, forsaken of Aeneas, and did not bewail the true death of my Soul forsaken of her Jesus:* 1.2 Thus it is, that many unhallowed tears are sacrificed to the Idols of our eyes, which yet are as dry as Pumices in regard of our Souls, We bewayl a body forsaken of the Soul, and do not grieve for the Soul abandoned by God; Hence we are to learn from every Corps that is buried, what the daughters of Israel were to learn from Christ crucified, Weep not for me, but weep for your selves, Luke 23. 28. not so much for the losse of your bodies, as for the death of your immortal Souls.

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* 1.1

Confess. lib. 1. cap. 13.

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* 1.2

J. B. A Serm. at request of Sir Rich. Blunt, 1616.

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