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 June 1, 2024.
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POLICIE LVIII. A friend in the person of an enemy.
IN discovery of a busines which containes in it any thing of e∣minent immutation or change, bee circumstantiall and prepare them whom the relation con∣cernes, with passages which in their nature, may exercise and fit them. I observe the Sunne is not without the bright pream∣ble of a Starre, and gives notice in that of a following day.
Thus,
Joseph would tell his Brethren who hee was, but first uses them as Spies, then put devised imputati∣ons upon them, then afflicts 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Fa∣ther with taking away his Benja∣min,
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and then sayes, I am Joseph Gen. 45. 1, 3.
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