Uniform with the Enchiridion Author:Francis Quarles Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ENCHIRIDION.. PlETY and Policy are, like Martha and Mary, sisters: Martha failes, if Mary help not: and Mary suffers, if Martha be idle : happy is that king-d... more »ome where Martha complaines of Mary; but most happy where Mary complies with Martha: where Piety and Policy goe hand in hand, there warre shall be just; and peace honourable. chapter{Section 4II. Let not civil discords in a forreign king- dome, encourage thee to make invasion. They that are factious among themselves, are jealous of one another, and more strongly prepared to encounter with a common enemy : those whom civill commotions set at variance, forreigne hostility reconciles. Men rather affect the possession of an inconvenient good, than the possibility of an uncertaine better. If thou hast made a conquest with thy sword, thinke not to maintaine it with thy scepter : neither conceive that new favours can cancell old chapter{Section 5 injuries: No conqueror sits secure upon his new-got throne, so long as they subsist in power, that were dispoil'd of their possessions by his conquest. Let no price nor promise of honour bribe thee to take part with the enemy of thy naturall prince: assure thy selfe who ever wins, thou art lost: if thy Prince prevaile, thou art proclaimed a rebell, and branded for death: if the enemy prosper, thou shalt be reckned but as a meritorious traytor, and not secure of thy selfe: he that loves the treason hates the traytor. If thy strength of parts hath rais'd thee to eminent place in the Common-wealth, take heed thou sit sure: if not, thy fall will be the greater: as worth is fit matter for glory; so glory is a fair marke for envy. By how much the more thy advancement was thought the reward of desert ; by so much thy fall will administer matter for disdaine : it is the ill ...« less