POLICIE CXXXI. How to gaine respect and estimate.
NObility, wealth, dignities, favours, friends, are such outward things as conduce to
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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"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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put you into respect; to these beauty, comelinesse, and grace∣fulnesse, to these the gifts of the Soule, as of knowledge, wise∣dome, or what other vertue or grace may exalt you above the ordinary pitch of others, these give men the empire and sove∣raignty over others, and above all these, that speciall character which God imprints upon any whom hee intends for place or office, which ever commands ve∣neration, and entitles to prehe∣minence; David was commended to Saul thus,
I have seene a sonne of Jesse that is cunning in playing, and a valiant man and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him, 1 Sa. 16. 18.