The practice of policie in a Christian life taught from the Scriptures / written by I. Saltmarshe ...

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Title: The practice of policie in a Christian life taught from the Scriptures / written by I. Saltmarshe ...
Author: Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.
Publication: London :: Printed by E.G. for Samuel Endarby and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Starre in Popes head alley,; 1639.
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POLICIE CXVII. Neglect not faire advantages.

IF you can make a faire depar∣ture for your advantage or fur∣ther benefit from the place or condition you are in, neglect not the opportunity, for as the Apo∣stle sayes divinely, It were better not to have knowne the way, than knowing it to turne, &c.

Thus,

When the Priest which was in Michaes house heard the Searchers say, Is it better for thee to bee a Priest to one mans house or to a Tribe? his heart was glad, and hee went in the middest of them,
Judg. 18. 19, 20.