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 19, 2024.
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POLICY LXXXIII. In use of friendships.
IF your friends bee men humo∣rous and uncertaine, though not with you for the present, yet date an alteration to your selfe; Ama tanquam inimicus futurus, love your friend as one that may be your enemy; Job describes the wisedome of God in this clause, Behold hee put no trust in his ser∣vants,
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even he charged his Angels with folly; and sayes Zachary, I was wounded in the house of my friend, Zach. 13 6.
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