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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POLICIE LXVII. Secresie the onely requisite in mana∣ging designes.

IN the carriage of Designes, closenesse and secrecy are the onely requisites, for you should have the light of a project; like a tapour in a darke lanthorne, that it may not shed a beame, through any chincke of report to betray it selfe to suspition, and discovery, but onely shine to your selfe and your complotters.

Thus,

God set the Pillar which was in the Desart betwixt the Israelites and the Egyptians, And it was a Cloud and darknesse to them, but gave light to those,
Ex. 14. 20.