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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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Thus much of the true & holy fear that God commands, such a fear as being joined with love and proceeding from it, makes us love him more, and more obey him.
Thus much of the true & holy feare that God commands, such a feare as being joyned with loue and proceding from it, makes vs loue him more, and more obey him.
The next and last duty commanded in this first commandment, is to trust in God with all our harts, to put our full confidence, and rely wholly upon him, and him alone.
The next and last dutie commanded in this first commandement, is to trust in God with all our harts, to put our full confidence, and relie wholy vpon him, and him alone.
This is commanded. Prou. 3. 5. Trust on God, with all thine heart, and lean not to thine own wisdom. Though thine own reason tell thee, now that I have great prosperity, and the world at will, I shall be safe, yet trust not to that, but make God thine only stay. So Jere. 17. 7. Blessed is that man that trusts in God, and makes him his stay, for he shall be like the tree planted by the water side. He shows that he that trusts in God, shall be blessed of God, so that he shall be still in a flourishing estate, what ever heat, j. stirs or alterations and changes others feel, he shall be well still, for he shall be always fruitful, and indeed this is the only happiness of a christian to be fruitful in good works, and this is the misery of all miseries, to be barren in good works, that pincheth his hart, & is as a scorching heat indeed, but so long as one trusts in God, he shall be kept in the spring still, it shall be no winter nor fall of the leaf; Faith makes a perpetual spring time. So he saith in the Psa. Trust in God, and he shall give thee thine harts desire, he that would have what he can wish or desire, let him trust in god, for this entitles him to all gods promises, yea it gives him interest to god himself, and having him, he can want nothing. The means how we shall come to this trust in god, is to meditate on his power, to know that he is able to help us, though we have all the world against us, and contrariwise that unless God do help us, all the world, and all the helps in the world, shall be no furtherance unto us. Then also to consider his