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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[ 1971] How our love to the Creature is to be regulated.

RIvers that come out of the Sea, as they passe along, do lightly touch the Earth,* 1.1 but they stay not there, but go on forward, till at last they return again into that Sea from whence they first came. Thus it is, that our love must first come from God to the Creature, yet being so come, it must not rest and settle there, (however, like a River it may in passage touch it) no, it must return back again into that infinite Sea, even God himself, whence it first came: All Creatures therefore are to be loved in God,* 1.2 and for God onely; so that the love of the Creature must be so far from taking any thing from the love of God, that rather it must confirm and encrease the same; And then is the love of the Creature truly regulated, when it is referred to the Creator, when it may be said, We love not so much the Creature, as the Creator in the Creature.

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* 1.1

Jer. Dyke Com. on Phi∣lem vers. 5.

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* 1.2

Omnia propter Deum, sed Deus propter seipsum aman dus est. Bern.

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