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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Security in time of danger condemned. [ 412]

IT is said of Archimedes, that when Syracuse was taken, all the people being as it were distracted,* 1.1 the Souldier doing all manner of out-rage, he was found sit∣ting at home securely, drawing circles with his compass in the dust: And do not we see men now a-dayes, when there is Hannibal ad portas, a popular sword playing Rex within, and a Royal sword enraged without, even when the eternal sal∣vation of their souls is in question,* 1.2 handling their dust, and stretching themselves to their farthest compass,* 1.3 set upon the tenter-hooks as it were, and distracted with Law-suits, with money matters, and wordly businesse, that shall profit them no∣thing at the last: Eternity is a thing they never think on, or else very slenderly for a snatch and away, as dogs are said to lap at Nilus, &c.

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* 1.1

Plutarch. in Mar••ell••.

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* 1.2

Nunc mihi par∣ta quies, &c.

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* 1.3

Virgil.

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