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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[ 679] To have particular safety, in the midst of generall dangers is impossible.
THe best man in the voyage cannot be safe in the cabbin under hatches,* 1.1
when the whole ship is ready to be drowned under water; nor can the spider
be secure in his web, when the whole window is pulled down; nor the young bird be
out of danger in the nest, when the whole arm of the tree is torn off. Thus all pri∣vate
mens interests are ventured in the bottom of the Common-wealth,* 1.2 and all
Common-wealths in the great vessell of the Earth, which was once swal∣lowed
up with a deluge of Water, and shall be, ere it be long, with a
conflagration of fire. What folly then, or rather madnesse is it, for any private man
to look for safety, in the midst of a publick danger; to dream of perpetu••••••••, and
certainties, and indefeizable estates, for his own particular, when the whole is in dan∣ger
of a suddain destruction?