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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Good meanings of bad Men, destructive. [ 1822]

THe Poets prate much of Plato's Ferry-boat, that never rested to carry Men through the infernall River to the infernall place: So that what was then feigned is now verified; For if there be any Ferry-boat to Hell, it is the thing that Men call, a good Meaning; This is that which carries Men and Women down to Hell by multitudes,* 1.1 by Millions; There cannot be found so many Passengers in all the boats upon any River, as there are in this one Wherry wafted down to the pit of perdition; Many in all Ages have had their good meanings, and to this day, the Iews, Turks, Pagans, Papists, the worst of them all do not want for good meanings. It is the good meanings of bad Men, that brings them to an evill end, they think they do God good service by abusing his Peo∣ple, but they are sure to find and feel one day what disservice they have done to God and their own Souls for ever, and that their good meanings before Man shall never excuse their bad actings before God.

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* 1.1

Maurit. Bo∣hem. medit. in loc. select. Script.

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