POLICIE CCXXXI. Gam••els counsell was wise, but not alwayes and altogether.
WHen Religion is preten∣ded in a commotion, and
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WHen Religion is preten∣ded in a commotion, and
is onely the countenance, suffer it, though yet in a wise care and caution that it spread not, and therefore you may bee plucking some feathers from the wing in the meane while, and thus let it rather seeme to die by its owne unsoundnesse, than your violence, and this argues the imposture of it more faithfully.
Thus,
Gamaliel gave wise counsell, Re∣fraine from these men, sayes he, and let them alone; for if this counsell or worke be of men it will come to naught,
Acts 5. 38.