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 ...

Not to be children in understanding. [ 655]

A Little child never thinks he shall be a man himself, and ••aintain himself, and live in the world by his own labour,* 1.1 or by the Pat••mony, which at years of discretion shall be due unto him, he cares for nothing but mea•• and drink, looks after nothing but sport and pastime,* 1.2 come day, go day, God send night, that's all his care. Nomine 〈◊〉〈◊〉 de nobis fab••la; Most of us are even such we 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the childs folly,* 1.3 and laugh at it, as ridiculous, yet we build houses, purchase lands, lay house to house, land to land, and all to rais•• up a glorious name to posterity, and to make a great shew••d the world; but for the getting of grace▪ for the gaining of faith, and hope, and love, and repentance, none of our thoughts are so bestowed; and is not this to be children in understanding? 1 Cor. 14. 20.

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  Ludere iis in rebus, in quibus 〈…〉〈…〉 lib. 4.