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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London :: Printed for Edward Brewster ...,
1656.
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Christian life.
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POLICIE CXXXV. A preface in matter of disswasion.

WHen you are bound to performe any thing you see inconvenient, use some pre∣face of dehortation and disswa∣sion at the very moment of Per∣formance,

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in making these often experiments you may by chance soften them thus into a recanta∣tion,

—non vi sed saepe cadendo.

Thus,

When Samuel had bound him∣selfe to annoint them a King, yet at the very time of solemnity, hee sayes, yee have rejected God, and said, nay, but set a King over us, 1 Sam. 10. 19.

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