POLICIE I. What the true Practice of Po∣licy is.
POLICIE without practice is something like Faith without Workes, a kinde of idle speculative Vertue, and such politicians are like the prophets
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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which saw Visions and Revelati∣ons, yet had nothing to doe in the things they saw.
And there is a Practicall Poli∣cy too, yet not the true, and such are either too politique for the designe, and then over-reach, or mistake the quality of it, and goe a wrong way, and yet they toile and are active, but like those Fishers who toiled all night with their nettes, but tooke no∣thing, and such are they of whom it is spoken, There is that laboureth and taketh paines and maketh haste, and is so much the more behinde, Eccles. 11. 11.
The true practice is a sacred and serious deliberation and ele∣ction of the most fit meanes, an exact examination of time, place, and persons, and of all such cir∣cumstances as may bee in the cir∣cle of your affaires, and an ac∣commodation of what you doe to the copy in the Scriptures.
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Thus,
Wisedome is justified of her chil∣dren,
Matth. 11. 19.