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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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Thirdly, Gods name is exceedingly dishonoured and polluted by swearing falsely, by forswearing ones self, which is most usually called perjury. This is an horrible sin, tending to a most fearful damnation; for if one shall give account for every idle word, as Christ saith, and if one be subject to damnation for every vain oath, as Saint James affirmeth, then what shall be-come of those, that will dare to call God to bear witness of a false thing, and bear themselves out in a lye, by pretending his name. Therefore in Zaccar. 5. the Lord shows that his curse like a fretting leprosy, shall come upon the forswearer, and upon his house, to consume him and devour his posterity and substance, and shall eat into them, like a fretting leprosy, till it have brought them to naught. And in the 15. Ps. it is set as a note & mark of a true christian, that having sworn to his hindrance, he will yet keep his oath. Then how far is he from a good man that will of purpose swear that, which he never purposeth to perform, and set a better colour upon an untruth by guarding it with an oath. For it were better loose any commodity then of Gods favour; and suffer damage in any thing, then in the matter of Gods glory.
Thirdly, Gods name is exceedingly dishonoured and polluted by swearing falsely, by forswearing ones selfe, which is most vsually called perjurie. This is an horrible sinne, tending to a most fearefull damnation; for if one shall giue account for euerie idle word, as Christ saith, and if one be subject to damnation for euerie vaine oath, as Saint Iames affirmeth, then what shal be-come of those, that will dare to call God to beare witnesse of a false thing, and beare themselues out in a lye, by pretending his name. Therfore in Zaccar. 5. the Lord shewes that his curse like a fretting leprosie, shall come vpon the forswearer, and vpon his house, to consume him and deuoure his posteritie and substance, and shall eat into them, like a fretting leprosie, till it haue brought them to naught. And in the 15. Ps. it is set as a note & marke of a true christian, that hauing sworn to his hindrance, he will yet keepe his oath. Then how far is he from a good man that will of purpose sweare that, which he neuer purposeth to performe, and set a better coulour vpon an vntruth by garding it with an oath. For it were better loose any commoditie then of Gods fauour; and suffer damage in any thing, then in the matter of Gods glory.