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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London :: Printed by W. Wilson and J. Streater, for John Spencer ...,
1658.
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The conversion of great ones to be endeavoured for ex∣amples sake. [ 736]

AS it is in the exquisite mystery of Printing,* 1.1 the great difficulty lies in the compo∣sing and working of the first sheet, for by that one many thousands are easily printed: So the great work of the Ministery is to convert Great men; if they were once converted, hundreths would follow their Example,* 1.2 In uno Coesare multi insunt Marii, In one great Man are many Inferiours contained; when the great wheele of

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the Clock is set a moving, all the inferiour wheels will move of their own accord; How zealous was S. Paul about the conversion of Sergius Paulus,* 1.3 the Deputy of the Country; He knew well enough, that to take such a great fish, was more then to catch many little ones, though the least of all is not to be despised.

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