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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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As in the family, let the children be good and temperate and modest, and behave themselves gently and humbly to all, then they do not only get good account and estimation to themselves in the harts and mouths of men, but they are an honour to the house of which they ⟨p. 46⟩come, and to the parents which begat them, & a crown to all their friends and brethren, that those which be enemies, cannot for shame give out an ill word of such a man whose children be so well brought up and behave themselves so orderly. So is it in the church, in gods household upon the earth, would one bring credit to God his father, would he cause the church to be praised, and all his brethren and fellow members to rejoice, & to be well reported of? then let him, show forth the virtues of Christ, let him live worthy his vocation and calling, let him cause his light so shine forth in the darkness of the world, let them not keep their virtues in their own bosom alone, but let the brightness and the warmeth of them lighten upon all those that live with him; and if he so do, he shall be honoured himself even in the consciences of wicked, but especially he shall win great reverence and reputation, to the name of God, to christians and christian religion; and though some enemies be reprobates, and therefore irrevocable, yet he shall make them dumb and stop their foul mouth, that their furious barking shall either not be heard, or if it be, shall not be heard. And whereas others that are yet in their present estate enemies, but in election gods children, may seem for a time perhaps to be hardened & not to submit themselves, yet afterwards this good example will work, and the seed will appear in the fruit, for saith Peter, They shall glorify God in the day of their visitation. As if he had said, Haply for a time it will seem vain to show any good example to those that be not good men, for they will it may be, be so far from profiting & glorifying god, as that they will rail and blaspheme. Be it so, that for the present you see no better success, yet know, that if these men be gods, when he hath softened their harts and opened their eyes, and converted their souls unto him, and recited them with his good spirit, then they shall magnify God, and praise him;
As in the family, let the children be good and temperate and modest, and behaue themselues gently and humbly to all, then they doe not onely get good account and estimation to themselues in the harts and mouthes of men, but they are an honour to the house of which they ⟨p. 46⟩