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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[ XXX] Charity to the poor to be reall, not verball.

WE read in our Chronicles of King Oswald,* 1.1 that as he sat at Table, when a fair silver dish, full of regall delicacies, was set before him, and he rea∣dy to fall to, hearing from his Almoner, that there were great store of Poor at his gates, pitiously crying out for some reliefe, did not fill them with words, as, God help them,* 1.2 God relieve them, God comfort them, &c. but commanded his Steward pre∣sently, to take the dish off the Table, and distribute the meat, then beat the dish all in pieces,* 1.3 and cast it among them. This was true charity. Words, be they never so adorned, cloath not the naked; be they never so delicate, feed not the hungry; be they never so zealous,* 1.4 warm not him that is starved with cold; be they never so oyly,* 1.5 cure not the wounded; be they never so free, set not them free that are bound, visit not the sick or imprisoned.

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* 1.1

Bedae hist. lib. 3. cap. 6.

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* 1.2

Jam. 2. 16.

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* 1.3

R. Holds∣worth Serm. at S. Peter po••r.

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* 1.4

Lond. 1630.

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* 1.5

Verbis non sol∣vendum est quid∣quam. Terence.

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