The practice of policie in a Christian life taught from the Scriptures / written by I. Saltmarshe ...

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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.
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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 XLIV. Suspicion keepes awake to prepare for Security.

IN inevident and doubtfull oc∣casions, ever doubt and su∣spect, for suspition keepes you awake to prepare and project for most security and safety: he that

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lets confidence and presumption shut his eyes, knowes not how to looke about him in a danger.

Thus,

Jacob when hee was to meete Esau, whise wrath hee suspected, divided his People and Flockes, and said, If Esau come to the one and smite it, the other shall escape,

Gen. 32. 7, 8.
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