The practice of policie in a Christian life taught from the Scriptures / written by I. Saltmarshe ...
About this Item
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.
Rights/Permissions
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms
Christian life.
Cite this Item
"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.
Pages
descriptionPage 170
POLICIE CXCVI. Bribes corrupt men, and make them breake promise.
IF you thinke the faction or party agaist you receive any ability or strength for resi∣stance by confederacie and cor∣respondence with others, endea∣vour the undoing of that, and drawing others away; wise Phy∣sitians, when they would draw a Flux of humours from one part where they gather too much, use some art to divert and turne them another way; and this is the rowelling of a correspondence, and giving it issue in another place.
Thus,
When Baasha King of Israel had strengthened himselfe by a league with Benhadad, and then beganne to offend Asa, Asa tooke treasure and sent to Benhadad to bribe him from his correspondence with Baa∣sha,
descriptionPage 171
and Baasha let the worke cease,
2 Chron. 16. 2, 3.
email
Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem?
Please contact us.