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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous strong God.
I am Iehouah thy God, a iealous strong God.
IN these words calling himself our God, he implies that there is an everlasting marriage betwixt god & us, & therefore as it is a foul fact, for a woman after her marriage, & the covenant of god betwixt them, to defile her body with filthy adulterers. So it is a much more heinous & abominable thing, for any man or woman, after his covenant with God, to follow idols and images, not contenting himself with the perfect beauty of Christ. Then where he saith a jealous God, he compares himself to an husband, that as he loves his wife most tenderly & dearly, whilst she remains chaste & faithful, so is he most offended & provoked if she deal lewdly and treacherously with him, so Christ Jesus hath loved us most dearly, and given his blood ⟨image 45⟩for us, but if we deal not chastely with him in this case, he will be as a jealous man, whose most abundant love being abused doth burst forth into the strongest hatred, as Solomon saith that jealousy is the rage of man, & the eye of jealousy seeth all things.
IN these words calling himself our God, he implies that ther is an euerlasting marriage betwixt god & vs, & therfore as it is a foule fact, for a woman after hir marriage, & the couenāt of god betwixt thē, to defile her body with filthy adulterers. So it is a much more hainous & abhominable thing, for any man or woman, after his couenant with God, to follow idols and images, not contenting himself with the perfect beautie of Christ. Then where he saith a iealous God, hee compares himselfe to an husband, that as hee loues his wife most tenderly & dearely, whilst she remaines chast & faithfull, so is he most offended & prouoked if she deale lewdely and trecherously with him, so Christ Iesus hath loued vs most dearely, and giuen his bloud