The practice of policie in a Christian life taught from the Scriptures / written by I. Saltmarshe ...
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The practice of policie in a Christian life taught from the Scriptures / written by I. Saltmarshe ...
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Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647.
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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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Christian life.
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"The practice of policie in a Christian life taught from the Scriptures / written by I. Saltmarshe ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11380.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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POLICIE CXLIII. When a man may deface himselfe in accepting of favours.
BEe not too meeting, and seeme not too hasty in ac∣cepting graces and favours, for you ravish that which would come with consent at the season intended, and it is like the pluc∣king off a curtsey in the bud and blossome, before it be ripened in the purpose of him that bestowes it; and such early setting forth makes your desert become more guilty, than perhaps there is cause.
Thus,
When Saul told David he should bee his Sonne in Law, Who am I▪ saies hee, or my Fathers Family? and when hee was sollicited againe, hee said, I am a poore man and lightly esteemed, yet after, it pleased David to bee the Kings Sonne in Law,
1 Sam, 18. 18, 20, 25.
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