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arising out of a universal insight into the affairs of the
world; which is used indeed upon particular causes
propounded, but is gathered by general observation of
cases of like nature. For so we see in the book which Q.
Cicero writeth to his brother, De petitione consulatus ,
(being the only book of business that I know written by
the ancients,) although it concerned a particular action
set on foot, yet the substance thereof consisteth of
many wise and politic axioms, which contain not a
temporary, but a perpetual direction in the case of
popular elections. But chiefly we may see in those
aphorisms which have place among divine writings,
composed by Salomon the king, (of whom the Scriptures
testify that his heart was as the sands of the sea,
encompassing the world and all worldly matters), we see,
I say, not a few profound and excellent cautions,