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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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So likewise in abusing any of Gods properties to defend evil, as is the common custom of most men, if you reprove them and admonish them of any fault, this makes them care for nothing; oh God is merciful, true, God is merciful, but to whom? to the penitent and humble person, that hates his sin and studies to forgo it; but he is not merciful to those that ⟨p. 51⟩love their sin, and like their sin, and that have a root of bitterness in them, and make Gods mercy an encouragement to hearten them in their sin, & not to allure them to repentance, and make his love and kindness a protector to their lewdness, to such he will show no mercy, but his wrath shall burn against them, to the bottom of hell. So that in speaking of Gods attributes, speak of them with reverence and to that good use for which God hath revealed them.
So likewise in abusing any of Gods properties to defend euill, as is the common custome of most men, if you reprooue them and admonish them of any fault, this makes them care for nothing; oh God is mercifull, true, God is mercifull, but to whom? to the penitent and humble person, that hates his sinne and studies to forgoe it; but hee is not mercifull to those that ⟨p. 51⟩loue their sinne, and like their sinne, and that haue a root of bitternesse in them, and make Gods mercie an incouragement to harten them in their sinne, & not to allure them to repentance, and make his loue and kindnesse a protector to their lewdnesse, to such he will shew no mercie, but his wrath shal burne against them, to the bottome of hell. So that in speaking of Gods attributes, speake of them with reuerence and to that good vse for which God hath reuealed them.
So lastly, Gods name is taken in vain, without an oath, in speaking unreverently of his works, either those admirable actions of God within himself, as his election and reprobation, when vain man because his shallow conceit and foolish brain, cannot comprehend how God should be just if he appointed any to damnation, or how it were not long of him if he should decree of their destruction before, that it were as they say a plain wrong, and God could not maintain it, for this weakness of his, that cannot reach to the depth of these things, he will therefore deny them, and say there be none, whereas he should rather with silence and reverence wonder at this hidden secret, and not pry into it, as Paul in