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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[ 544] A good Christian to be Heavenly minded.

IT is noted that the Creatures which are nearest the Earth, take most care to get store of provision,* 1.1 those which are more remote are less busied; but those who live next the Heavens have their hearts least upon it; What hoardeth like the Emmet or Pisemire, which is an earthly thing, and hath its dwelling thereupon, Prov. 6. 8.? But the birds of the air which fly next to heaven, as Christ himselfe doth teach, do neither sow, nor reap, nor carry into barnes. Math. 6. 26. Then let the meditations of every good Christian mount higher then their wings can reach;* 1.2 that though they live with men, yet their love may be with God; Sursum corda, was the language of the ancient Liturgies, and it is well back'd by the Apostle, Let your conversation be in Heaven, from whence ye expect a Saviour which is Christ the Lord, Phil. 3. 20.

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* 1.1

Geo. Abbot Cant. lect. on Ionah.

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* 1.2

Os jubet & me••••em tollere ad astra piam. Ovid.

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