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 ...

[ 290] The Excellency of the Scripture in its fulness.

MEn talk much of the Philosophers-stone,* 1.1 that it turns copper into gold; of Cornucopia, that it had all things necessary for food in it; of Panaces the hearb, that it was good for all diseases; of Catholicon the drugge, that it is instead of all purges; of Vulcans armour, that it was full proof against all thrusts and blows, &c. ••Well, that which they did attribute vainly to these things for bo••ily good, we may with full measure attribute justly to the Scripture in a spiritual manner; It is not an hearb but a Tree, or rather a compleat Paradise of Trees of life, which bring forth fruit every moneth, and the fruit thereof is for meat, and the leaves for Me∣dicine. In a word,* 1.2 it is a Panacy of wholesome food against fenowed Traditions; A Phisitians shop of Preservatives against poysoned heresies;* 1.3 a Pandect of profitable laws against Rebellious spirits; a Treasury of most costly Iewels against beggarly rudiments.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Joh. Boys post.
• * 1.2

  Rev. 22. 2.
• * 1.3

  Schola coalestis, eru••••itio vitalis, c••••iodor▪ in Psalm 15.