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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POLICIE CCXLIII. Injuries privately offered, content not thy selfe with private satis∣faction.

WHen you perceive your selfe to have suffered in∣juriously, and yet have the ad∣vantage on your side by reason of the wrong, doe not acquit or release them, though they would let you escape, till you let them know how they stand disabled by the act, and this sheds a kinde of obligation upon them for your curtesie.

Thus,

When the Magistrates had bea∣ten

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Paul and Silas, and heard they were Romans, they sent to release them, but Paul answered, Doe they thrust us out privily now they have beaten us openly? Nay verily, let them come themselves and fetch us out, Acts 16. 36, 37.

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