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 LXVI. Wisedome to comfort as much as we can.

IN great complaints and mur∣murings of People by rea∣son of grievances, it is wisdome if you cannot supply their de∣sires, yet to solace and comfort and addulce their afflictions, which act is a degree of redresse to the misery.

Thus,

When the people grieved for the

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bitternesse of the waters of Marah, though Moses could not bring them to other Fountaines and streames, yet cast in a tree into the waters and made them sweet,

Ex. 15. 25.
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