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 LVIII. A friend in the person of an enemy.

IN discovery of a busines which containes in it any thing of e∣minent immutation or change, bee circumstantiall and prepare them whom the relation con∣cernes, with passages which in their nature, may exercise and fit them. I observe the Sunne is not without the bright pream∣ble of a Starre, and gives notice in that of a following day.

Thus,

Joseph would tell his Brethren who hee was, but first uses them as Spies, then put devised imputati∣ons upon them, then afflicts his Fa∣ther with taking away his Benja∣min,

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and then sayes, I am Joseph,

Gen. 45. 1, 3.
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