POLICY CLXXXI. It is good to looke about when your neighbours prepare forces.
IT is policy in States when they observe preparations abroad,
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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to provide and looke about them and gather up their powers, for though they seeme little at ri∣sing or birth, in appearance to them, yet it is safe to feare that a great and violent storme may breake forth.
For States present their stra∣tagems by a false perspective, to deceive the opinion, and over∣take the judgement of lookers on
Thus,
When Eliah saw a little Cloud, Get home, sayes hee to Ahab, for there is a sound of abundance of raine, and hee girded up his loines and runne before him,
1 Kings 18. 41. 44.