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 May 20, 2024.
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POLICIE CXXXVIII. How and when to punish Seducers.
WHen you see any one a∣bused through the sub∣tlety of ill instruments, put such a disparagement or disgrace up∣on the instruments, as they may appeare worthy of, and so you may lessen them with those they are endeared: it is an arch policy to poyson the water or current which a country esteemes or makes use of.
Thus,
Paul seeing Elymas the Sorce∣rer turne Sergius Paulus from the Faith, strikes him blind with the language of, O thou Childe of the Devill! and when the Deputy saw what was done, he believed,
Acts 13. 12.
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