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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"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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POLICIE CXCVI. Bribes corrupt men, and make them breake promise.
IF you thinke the faction or party agaist you receive any ability or strength for resi∣stance by confederacie and cor∣respondence with others, endea∣vour the undoing of that, and drawing others away; wise Phy∣sitians, when they would draw a Flux of humours from one part where they gather too much, use some art to divert and turne them another way; and this is the rowelling of a correspondence, and giving it issue in another place.
Thus,
When Baasha King of Israel had strengthened himselfe by a league with Benhadad, and then beganne to offend Asa, Asa tooke treasure and sent to Benhadad to bribe him from his correspondence with Baa∣sha,
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and Baasha let the worke cease, 2 Chron. 16. 2, 3.
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