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 ...
Author
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 17, 2024.
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descriptionPage 166
POLICIE CXCII. Preparations are necess••ry both in spirituall and temporall affaires.
DOE not goe on nor too farre in businesse without engine and preparation to effect it, that discovers an impatiency, as though you could not stay the ripening and maturing which is requisite; and it is as if an hasty archer should draw his bow when he wanted his arrow, as if the Prophet should prophe∣sie before the Spirit were upon him.
Thus,
David will first prepare Iron for the nailes of the Temple, and brasse and Cedar trees, Because (sayes he) the House must be magnific••••nt, I will therefore now make prepara∣tion,
1 Chron. 22. 3, 4.
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