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A11380 The practice of policie in a Christian life taught from the Scriptures / written by I. Saltmarshe ... Saltmarsh, John, d. 1647. 1639 (1639) STC 21639; ESTC S964 73,178 331

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Try to draw away some of them with gifts and office of place or honour and thus you pull feathers out of the wing of a conspiracy and imps your owne 7. Dispatch some of eminency to comply in the faction with them and to bee parties among them and their advices may find occasions and pretences to pull them behinde or about in their practices that you may gaine ground and advantage David had his pensioner in Absaloms counsell-chamber 2 Sam. 17. 5 6. 8. Doe not shew your selfe too inquisitive into those you suspect guilty of any adherence neither make too much noise of revenge and punishment pardons are your best language to offendours though many bee in the guilt there should bee but few in the suffering Multorum culpa sit poena paucorum If that Nation sayes God against whom I have pronounced turne from their evill I will repent of the evill that I thought to doe unto them Jer. 18. 8. POLICIE CXXV What to bee observed before you embarque in businesse CAlme such passionate motions as trouble your spirit so long as smooth water is troubled there can be no cleare reflexion passions shed an ill disposition over the whole Soule and distracts both your counsell and judgement so as you may then erre both in making choice of your end and of your meanes to it or in your act of applying and accommodating or in the time you should take or the place where you should doe it thus the ambitious and envious men of humours and passions often succeed ill A man of counsell will be considerate Eccl. 32. 18. 2. They are not likely to succeed ill who make God of their counsell goe not forth among affaires below till you have beene above David resolves wisely I will heare what God the Lord will speake Psal 85. 8. POLICIE CXXVI What to doe in calumniations EXpresse neither your passion nor revenge if the reports bee just your guilt is a privilege if false it is wisedome to take no notice stirre not there where you shall provoke sooner than appease A wise man will pacifie it Prov. 16. 14. POLICIE CXXVII What you are to doe in affaires in generall FIrst consultation is requisite and election of what is to be done then looke about for circumstances as of place time persons humours dependancies occurrences which may happen propose all reasons suspitions conjectures and improve them by a due examination forecast impediments or what may hinder your effecting and consequences what may follow and arise from thence then looke to the conduct of your businesse how to dispose all and allow some uncertainty to those events which are independant for there is an instance of succeeding in which providence reserves and reveales when and to whom shee pleases There is a time when in their hands there is good successe Eccl. and sayes Christ cast the net on the right side of the ship and yee shall finde Joh. 21. 6. there is a right side for fishing else your net may returne empty First see what is to bee done in each particular case 2. Then enquire prudently the meanes how to compasse it then observe the just measure and proportion you are to allow the action that is weigh the fittings of the circumstance of time place and subject then apply your selfe to the felicity or dexterity of arriving where you intend Let reason goe before every enterprise and counsell before every action Ecclef 37. 16. POLICIE CXXVIII How to quicken your judgement for dispatch of affaires IF you would have your judgement cleare for the conduct of businesse retire home into your selfe and keepe sometimes a distance with businesse your eye sees not so distinctly things that are nearest and closest Moses will be in the Mount a farre off as well as below among the people and your judgement or word of your Soule should like the eternall Word of God Never goe out so as to depart from you POLICY CXXIX How to obtaine respect THe state of outward circumstances and retinue will command a stooping and bowing in opinions towards you if you want these your owne vertues and good qualities will doe you that service yet have them valued by others upon your selfe and keepe them at home and they will bee more admired abroad for retirements and withdrawings in conversation is like a distance to some scene of a heaven which is presented with more admiration and in your necessary nearnesse with any that are your familiars let not your face and language and gesture too freely loose to your owne or anothers mirth you shall never binde up strangers in a solid respect of you by too much unloosing your selfe Numb 11. The plentifull showers of Manna caused a satiety and made the people say Now our Soules are dried away that there is nothing besides this Manna Num. 11. 6. POLICY CXXX What to doe if you would have your counsels words or deeds respected THere is a secret authority and power which hath great influence over mens spirits and it is some individuall thing within the party some naturall graces besides the affluence of outward things which begets reputation and sets a price upon him in the opinions and causes what hee sayes or does to bee received observe what you have of this in you and then preserve and improve it for it is of great advantage commanders law-givers and magistrates professours in arts and sciences are famous for it where men are of reputation others encline before hand to their opinion belike for feare they come too late they attended to our Saviour for He spake as one that had authority and not as the Scribes Matth. 7. 29. POLICIE CXXXI How to gaine respect and estimate NObility wealth dignities favours friends are such outward things as conduce to put you into respect to these beauty comelinesse and gracefulnesse to these the gifts of the Soule as of knowledge wisedome or what other vertue or grace may exalt you above the ordinary pitch of others these give men the empire and soveraignty over others and above all these that speciall character which God imprints upon any whom hee intends for place or office which ever commands veneration and entitles to preheminence David was commended to Saul thus I have seene a sonne of Jesse that is cunning in playing and a valiant man and prudent in matters and a comely person and the Lord is with him 1 Sa. 16. 18. POLICIE CXXXII How to preserve the credit and good name you get AS in the spirituall estate perseverance preserves and advances that grace which relapses weaken and loose so in the temporall the streame that will be still pure must keepe running Philosophers say Ex quibus nascimur nutrimur wee are nourisht with such things as wee are made on thus in fortunes the same actions must bee repeated for the preservation which were active in the acquisition Fortuna moribus immutatur a change in your course will bring a change on your estate Meddle not with them that are given to change Prov. 24. 21. And a double minded man is unstable in all his wayes Jam. 1. 8. POLICY CXXXIII How to gaine credit and esteeme by your meanes BEe liberall and magnificent yet doe it with speciall choice of persons causes times and places the service of God and your country are the actions which exalt you most in the eyes of all God is magnified by David thus He hath dealt bountifully sayes hee and those to whom God himselfe sayes Yee are Gods must keepe in some faire proportion to make good their Divinity they receive Hee that sow●th bountifully shall reape bountifully 2 Cor. 9. 6. POLICIE CXXXIV How to know whether you be luckie and fortunate and how to continue so IF you finde an happy concurrence of your affaires with time place and persons which give successe bee prudent and industrious to manage and dispose this good fortune your cooperation is necessary and though God provide you this harmony in your circumstances yet your owne paines and counsels must manage them and then you shall not bee so much fortunate by contingency and chance as by industry and prudence Neglect not the gift that is in thee Tim. 4. 14. POLICIE CXXXV How to keepe you at your point of prosperity BEe moderate and bee gracious to your friends and adherents avoid insolency and presumption for those kindle you into scorne and pride and enflame into emulations and emulations into checkes and contradictions and those bring on improsperous events therefore the highest have had the most fatall mischances Goe on with thy businesse in meeknesse so shalt thou be approved Eccl. 3. 17. Let us not be de●●rous of vainglory provoking one another envying one another Gal. 5. 26. FINIS Imprimatur T. Wykes Febr. 5. 1638. Voluptatem quandam in us legend is ex illa reru● varietate perciper● sed de illaris ●● 〈◊〉 ne 〈◊〉 quidem Machi● lib. disp in Prooe● Mach●avil Ba●on lib. de Aug. Scien Sen. epist 95. 2 Kin. 1. 1 2 Pet. 1. 19. 2 Tim. 3. 15. Bac●n ●● Aug. Scien lib. ● they * if evill * not well 1 Cor. 15. 51.
POLICIE VII Interrogatories made to an Offendour will draw the worme out of the roote SOmetimes it is best in case convenient to examine an offendour with no notice of his fault though you know all the particulars of the trespasse to try the ingenuity of his disposition and in a smoothe pretence of ignorance to seeke that you have found already Thus God although hee knew Adam had offended yet called him and enquires Hast thou eaten of the fruit whereof I commanded thou shouldst not eate Gen. ● POLICIE VIII Trust not an Offendour who hath played false with you TRust not an Offendour too much that hath played false with you especially if any thing of yours lie open to advantage for by that you put an occasion into his hands to betray you and you halfe perswade him to that you would not have him to doe Thus God after Adam had sinned drove him out Least hee put forth his hand sayes hee and take also of the Tree of Life Gen. 3. 22 24. POLICIE IX Envy the mother of Mischiefe AMong Rivals and Competitours of desert doe not publish your grace and acceptance which you f●nde with others it excites and stirres to emulation and it is a daring your adversary to doe you mischiefe and even a spreading of Colours and of flourishing in the face of your Enemy Thus Cain smote not Abel till he saw his Sacrifice blaze bright And his countenance fell to see his Brother rise in favour Gen. 4. 5. POLICIE X. True intelligence is necessary IN negotiations abroad it is not safe to venture forth where there hath beene a danger apparant till you have received true intelligence with what safety you may goe then you draw a lot for security and you goe on trust with chance for successe Thus Noah kept close to his Arke till his winged intelligencer returned with an Olive in her mouth Gen. 8. 11. POLICIE XI Signes doe strengthen ones Faith WHen you would oblige one to a condition or promise it is not amisse to procure some token for remembrance this seals them unto performance and at every appearing renewes an importunity and sheds a fresh sollicit upon them Thus God set his Bow and I will looke upon it sayes hee that I may remember the Covenant Gen. 9. 11. POLICIE XII Division is the mother of confusion IN a Conspiracy which is discovered to you and concernes you and may prove of dangerous consequence consult and observe whether many bee interessed in it if so there is more danger and your course is to plot a division among them and to keepe them from being of one Language and this is to disable and disperse a project and to confound the Language of a conspiracy Thus God saw that the builders of Babel were one And he said let us goe downe and confound their Language so the Lord seattered them Gen. 11. 6 7 8. POLICIE XIII Gods promise and Abrahams obedience IF you desire a blessing upon your selfe or yours withdraw from such evill society as you hold any deare correspondence with GOD is ever jealous of such adherence and is sparing till he have better demonstration of your integrity and will not part with a favour till you part with your engagement Thus God said to Abraham I will blesse thee but first sayes hee get thee out of this Country G. 12. 1 2 POLICIE XIV Haste makes waste FEigning in some cases is dangerous and you may put your selfe upon a hazard by personating that which you cannot bee easily quit of without prejudice therefore consider well what may follow and doe not say in haste what you would unsay upon consideration and so put your selfe into the curtesie of a recantation it was Davids errour I said in my haste Thus Abraham unadvisedly bid Sarah say she was his Sister And shee was then commended before Pharaoh and taken into Pharaohs house Gen. 12. 15. POLICIE XV. If your justice rise early Gods mercy will not be lute IF you have any affliction or misery upon you discusse and enquire in your selfe if some sin of yours did not occasion it if so renounce it with speed and repent and if your Justice rise early Gods Mercy will not be late Thus Pharaoh when his House was plagued called Abraham and said What is this thou hast done unto me and he sent him away and his wife Gen. 12. 18 20. POLICIE XVI Separation is sometimes necessary WHen you observe there will be any discord or jarring in your neighbourhood the best remedy is to remove if your nearnesse bee as it were incompatible with the other yet first looke well with what conveniency it may bee done and doe not take your leave at one place till you be secured by another Thus Abraham's and Lot's Heard●men agreed not and they separated one from the other yet Lot lift up his eyes first and saw the Plaines of Iordan well watered Ge. 13. 10. 11. POLICIE XVII A Friend is tried in adversity IF you would get a blessing and respect bee sollicitous in aiding and revenging the cause and weaknesse of the just for in this though you saile against the streame of the World and the times yet you become more notable and meritorious `` And this is to doe like God himselfe whose Power is most eminent in the weakenesse of others Thus When Abraham heard Lot was taken he pursued and brought back him and all his goods and the King of Sodome went out to meete him and Melchisedech King of Salem blessed him Gen. 14. 16 17 18. POLICIE XVIII A speedy flight is sometimes needfull IN avoidance of Dangers either spirituall or civill observe quicknesse and speed in dispatch foresight of the way you are to take election of your refuge so you shall not be overtaken by the perill nor unprovided of security Thus Lot saw the conveniency of Zoar and escaped thither and the Angels hastened him and while he lingred they laid hands upon him Gen. 19. 22. POLICIE XIX To attaine a new favour● by illustrating favours received WHen you petition a new favour first illustrate and magnifie your favours received and then the pretences for this you desire yet extenuate it smoothly too onely report the advantages it may bring you for the advantages which appeare will move such as respect you to bestow it and the lesse it appeares to bestow it the sooner and more easily Thus When Lot petitioned God hee would give him Zoar for his refuge behold sayes he thou hast magnified thy mercy to me in saving my life behold this city is neare to flie unto and it is a little one Gen. 19. 19. POLICIE XX. Vnlawfull kindenesse dangerous THere is nothing lost in suspecting unlawfull kindenesse for let the pretence bee never so faire the meanes is wicked and no good issue can attend it and hee that is taken and transported thus is blinde in the colours of Good and Evill Thus Lot did unwisely not to bee jealous over his Daughters respect and familiarity when