A20559:170
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.
Of them that hate me.
Of them that hate mee.
IN that God calls Idolatry and superstition, hatred of him, this doctrine may be learned from thence that all false love is hatred, for Idolaters pretend that they love God above all, and more then all; why they can find in their harts to bestow their sons and daughters upon him, and is not this zeal? No, false love is true hatred, and in that they do those things that God hates and forbids; what ever their pretence be, they are haters of God. So Pro. 13. He shows that a fond parent, that spareth the rod, hateth his child; why but they do love them, and are so tender over them, as that they cannot find in their harts, to give them due and fit correction, why but this is hatred. So in Levit. He commands to admonish our brother, and not to hate him in our hart, showing that if one be so carnally affected to any man, that he cannot tell him of his sin, he is loath to grieve him by a sharp reproof, and to reprehend him so, as that he might be brought to repentance, he that is so tender hearted, hath an hard hart against his friend, & this is the worst hatred that may be.
IN that God cals Idolatrie and superstition, hatred of him, this doctrine may bee learned from thence that all false loue is hatred, for Idolaters pretend that they loue God aboue all, and more then all; why they can finde in their harts to bestow their sonnes and daughters vpon him, and is not this zeale? No, false loue is true hatred, and in that they doe those things that God hates and forbids; what euer their pretence bee, they are haters of God. So Pro. 13. Hee shewes that a fond parent, that spareth the rod, hateth his childe; why but they doe loue them, and are so tender ouer them, as that they cannot finde in their harts, to giue them due and fit correction, why but this is hatred. So in Leuit. Hee commands to admonish our brother, and not to hate him in our hart, shewing that if one be so carnally affected to any man, that he cannot tell him of his sinne, hee is loath to grieue him by a sharp reproofe, and to reprehend him so, as that he might be brought to repentance, he that is so tender harted, hath an hard hart against his friend, & this is the worst hatred that may be.