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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[ XXXIII] A great folly not to provide for Heaven.
IT is a thing that the Emperour Caligula is laughed at in all Stories:* 1.1 There was
a mighty Navy provided, well Man'd and Victualled; and every one expected,
that the whole Country of Greece should have been invaded, and so it might have
been: but the Emperour had another designe in hand, and employed his Souldi∣ers
to gather a company of Cockle-shells, and pibble stones, and so returned home
again. Just such another Voyage doth almost every man make here in this World,
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were the particulars but truly cast up,* 1.2God hath given us so much time, it may
be twenty, thirty, or forty years; it may be but a day, or two more: In this time,
he hath furnished us with that, which may be a means to conquer Heaven it
self:* 1.3 Now if we lay out this little onely about wife, or children, or to purchase a
little wealth, is not this to spend money for that which is not bread? to labour for that
which satisfieth not? Is not this the greatest folly that may be?