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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Strange sins, strange punishments. [ 726]
HAd any man beheld Sodom in the beauty thereof, and had the Angel told
him, that the same should be suddainly destroyed by a merciless Element, he
would certainly have concluded, that Sodom should have been drowned, led
thereunto by these considerations:
First, It was scituated in the plain of Iordan, a flat, low, levell Country.
2. It was well watered every where; and where alwaies there is water enough,
there may sometimes be too much.
3. Iordan had a quality in the first moneth, to overflow all his banks. But not
one drop of moisture is spilt on Sodom, it is burnt to ashes; How wide then are our
Conjectures when they ghess at Gods Iudgements? How far are his waies above our
apprehensions? Especially, when wicked men with the Sodomites, wander in strange
sins, out of the road of common corruption, not once coming within the compass
of a rational suspition; so true is it, that strange sins, have and ever will be attended
with strange and unheard-of punishments.