POLICIE CXXXIV. To prepare a man with a preface to receive good newes.
IF you bee to discharge a relati∣on which conteines some un∣expected
The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times.
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- The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times.
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- 1656.
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"The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34173.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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and happy conditions to an inferiour and dejected per∣son, first let fall such language as may a little dispose his spirits for dilation, and diffusion, and so prepare him that hee receive it moderately and safely; That cloud does well that shootes a bright admonition of lighte∣ning before a thunder-clap.
Thus,
When Samuel was to annoint Saul Ring of Israel, first hee scat∣ters this, On whom is all the desire of Israel, is it not on thee? then he places him above all his Guests, 1 Sam. 9. 20, 21.