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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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And shows mercy to thousands of them that &c.
And shewes mercie to thowsands of them that &c.
IN that that God promiseth to show mercy to thousands of them that love him, & keep his commandments, we learn that the best way for any man to do good to his children, is to be godly him self, as the very words of the commandments do carry it. So Psal. 37. 21. ver. A good man is merciful and lendeth & his seed enjoys the blessing, &c. After 29. The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell in it for ever. Not this in his own person, for that were no blessing for a good man to live still in this world, but in his seed he means. One would think the contrary, what is he always lending? still doing good? why alas how shall his poor children do, how shall they do, nay they be rich children & shall do well enough, they have a rich legacy left them, for they shall have Gods blessing, for when he saith the blessing, it is more then if one had said the whole earth, and all the world, for so one might have and yet be under the curse, and live and die a miserable man, but he shall have the blessing, all things necessary for soul & body, heaven and earth, for so much the blessing contains. So 112. Psal. The generation of the righteous shall be blessed. If then the blessing of God be the cause of all prosperity and happiness, and contrary the curse of God, the beginning & ground of all misery, then so far as we are good or ill, so far do we do good or ill to our stock. For in Levit. God threatens that if one be disobedient to God and his commandments, he shall be cursed in his soul and body, in his wife children and all that he puts his hand unto, but on the other side, if one be upright & with a perfect hart, set him self to follow Gods ⟨p. 41⟩