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The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandments gathered from the mouth of a faithful pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholar in Cambridge.The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.
London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603
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But let god threaten & protest that he will curse them & damn them, & cast them into hell for ever, it never fears them, they can go about as merely & cheerfully as though there were no danger: yea, they will make oft times a mock, & a scoff at those judgments. What a most plain & palpable dissembling is this, that men will pretend to fear god above all, & yet will be much more afraid if a man do but threaten to turn them out of their house, then if god threaten to turn them out of heaven to be in hell for ever: that one angry word of their landlord will fear them, but twenty threatenings out of ⟨image 32⟩the scripture of God, will not move them one whit, nor work the least sorrow in them. By trying our affections to the word of God then, we may see our affections to God himself; either in love, for he that loves Gods word most, may assure his soul that he loves God best: or in fear, for he that most trembles and is most humble at Gods threatenings, he carries the greatest reverence towards God himself, and so that he that puts greatest confidence in the promises of God, doth most faithfully trust in God.
But let god threaten & protest that he wil curse them & damne thē, & cast them into hel for euer, it neuer feares thē, they can go about as merely & cherfully as though ther were no danger: yea, they will make oft times a mock, & a scoffe at those judgments. What a most plain & palpable dissēbling is this, that men wil pretēd to feare god aboue all, & yet will be much more afraid if a man do but threatē to turne them out of their house, then if god threaten to turne them out of heauen to be in hell for euer: that one angry word of their lādlord wil feare thē, but twēty threatnings out of ⟨image 32⟩the scripture of God, will not moue them one whit, nor work the least sorrow in them. By trying our affections to the word of God then, we may see our affections to God himselfe; either in loue, for he that loues Gods word most, may assure his soule that hee loues God best: or in feare, for hee that most trembles and is most humble at Gods threatnings, hee carries the greatest reuerence towards God himselfe, and so that he that puts greatest confidence in the promises of God, doth most faithfully trust in God.