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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The Schismaticks abuse of Scripture. [ 245]
IT is reported of one Procrustes, a notorious theevish Inn-keeper, who when any
Travellers came to lodge at his house,* 1.1. would make his guest's stature equal with
his bed, either by stretching them out to the length of it, if they were too short,* 1.2 or by cutting some part of them, if they were too long; He would not fit his bed
to his guests, but his guests to his bed: Nothing more common shall we find amongst
Hereticks and Schismaticks, than either with false senses to stretch and enlarge, or
with loud lyes to mince and mangle the sacred Scripture, that so they may frame
them to their likings, and make them serve their own turnes at all essayes They
will either suppress the words, or else not express the sense; they will either blot out,
or else blemish the Scriptures, rather then they will abolish or any whit alter their
own fantasies; Of their own opinion and writings they will not abide the least amend∣ment;
but of the holy word of God they care not what havock they make.