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 CXXV. What to bee observed before you embarque in businesse.

CAlme such passionate moti∣ons as trouble your spirit, so long as smooth water is trou∣bled, there can be no cleare refle∣xion; passions shed an ill dispo∣sition over the whole Soule, and distracts both your counsell and judgement, so as you may then erre, both in making choice of your end, and of your meanes to it, or in your act of applying, and accommodating, or in the

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time you should take, or the place where you should doe it; thus the ambitious and envious men of humours and passions often succeed ill;

A man of coun∣sell will be considerate, Eccl. 32. 18.

2. They are not likely to suc∣ceed ill who make God of their counsell, goe not forth among affaires below till you have beene above: David resolves wisely,

I will heare what God the Lord will speake, Psal 85. 8.

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