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 June 3, 2024.
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POLICIE CCXVI. The spirit of contradiction in an ill counselled People.
WHen you see peoples affe∣ctions carried in a tide and current one way, doe not at that time speake and expostulate, for it stirres and disquiets more, and it is like a little water cast upon a great flame, which makes it burne brighter; a wise forbea∣rance will compose and settle them better; and as a Physitian advises the Patient upon bloud∣letting▪ not to stirre much, so it is policy when a multitude hath had some issue for dis∣content,
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not to move them much after it.
Thus,
When the people cried out for the suffering of Jesus, Pilate said, what will ye I shall doe to him? and they cried out againe, Crucifie him, and then he said, Why? and they cried out the more, Crucifie him,
Luke 24. 20, 21, 22, 23.
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