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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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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.
if God cross them in their dice, which are deer to them, they will cross him in his glory, which is deer to him; if he will make the dice run against them, they will not put it up so, but they will be revenged, their tongue shall run as fast against him.
if God crosse them in their dice, which are deere to them, they will crosse him in his glory, which is deere to him; if hee will make the dice runne against them, they will not put it vp so, but they will bee reuenged, their tongue shall run as fast against him.
Here is an hart fully possessed with the devil, or rather changed into a devil, that can find no other remedy when ⟨image 60⟩they are crossed & moved, but to dishonour God, as who should say, it is an ease & pleasure to their mind, when they can bring any foul disgrace unto his name, so much as in them lies. Hell gapes with open mouth for such hellish persons, and a most horrible & fearful damnation remains for such horrible and fearful sinners. But this may be an unspeakable comfort to poor christians, if God bear with such persons, with this furious mad beasts, that bite at his name, and seek to rend and tear his glory, how much more will he do to them that love him and reverence him, and desire to obey him; if God be so patient that for a while he will suffer men as it were to spit in his face in a chafe, then those that humbly cast themselves down at his feet shall find mercy. But let such persons, take heed how they presume often thus to cross God in their anger, in the thing that he most accounts of, for he will not long sit down by it, he will not still bear it, but he will arise in his anger, and plague them in their soul, and in that that is nearest unto them, if they set their tongues against heaven, heaven will send down thunderbolts of vengeance against them; & if one dash often against Christ, and will take no warning, at length Christ will fall upon them and grind them to powder. And thus much for idle and foolish swearing, as also beastlike and outrageous blaspheming.
Heere is an hart fully possessed with the diuell, or rather changed into a diuell, that can finde no other remedie vvhen