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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[ 1860] The supernatural workings of the Spirit.

PHilosophers observe,* 1.1 that the ebbing and flowing of the Sea, is by virtue of the Moon, she flings her fainting beams into the Sea, and being not able to exhale them as the Sun doth, she leaves them there, and goes away, and that drawes them, and when they grow wet, they return again, so that the Sea ebbs and flowes not from any principle in its self, but by virtue of the Moon. Thus the heart of every poor Creature is like the Water,

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unable to move towards Heaven to think a good thought, much lesse 〈◊〉〈◊〉 act any thing that is good, till the holy Spirit of Grace bring in its beams, and leave a supernatu∣rall virtue by them upon the Soul, and thereby drawes it up to it self.

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