[ 615] The giving up of our selves, an acceptable Sacrifice to God.
IT is reported of Aeschines, when he saw his fellow Scholars give great gifts to his Master Socrates,* 1.1 he being poor, and having nothing else to bestow, did give
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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himself to Socrates, as confessing to be his in heart, and good will, and wholly at his devotion.* 1.2 And the Philosopher took this most kindly, esteeming it above all other presents, and returned him love accordingly; Even so the gratious disposition of our heavenly Father taketh in far better part, then any man can take it, the laying down of our souls, the submitting of our selves unto his direction, the mel••ing of our wills down into his Will;* 1.3 The Widows two mites were welcome into his Treasury, be∣cause her heart was full, though her purse were empty; He accounteth that the best sacrifice which is of the heart. External things do well, but Internal things do far better.
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* 1.1
Seneca de bene∣••••ciis, lib. 1.
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Dr. Donne Serm. ••t St. Pauls, Lond. 1629.
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Non vox Sed votum—