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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POLICY C. When any faction or power growes great and dangerous.

IT is policy to suffer it with caution, for if you once shew your dislike in opposing, you stir it into combustion and strife, for many are often well prepared to rebell, which fit still and con∣tent themselves in the contem∣plation of the power they en∣joy, like some birds which never stirre nor offer upon wing, while you seeme to neglect, or not eye and stirre them too much, but if once you move, they move too;

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therefore in this case as the Pro∣phet sayes,

Your strength is to sit still, Isai. 30 7.

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