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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.
Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day, six days shalt thou labour & do all that thou hast to do, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it; thou shalt do no manner of work, thou and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man servant, thy maid servant, thy cattle and the stranger that is within thy gates, &c.
Remember that thou keepe holy the sabboth day, sixe daies shalt thou labour & do all that thou hast to doe, but the seauenth day is the sabboth of the Lord thy God, in it; thou shalt doe no manner of worke, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, thy man seruant, thy maide seruant, thy cattell and the stranger that is within thy gates, &c.
The sum of this fourth commandment is, to command the setting a part of the seventh day, from all worldly business, and affairs, to the exercises of religion and mercy, and in the night that our sleep also be seasoned with the word, and the exercise of which we have been partakers. The parts are two. The one sets down the duties to be performed, the other the reasons to move us to perform them. The duties two fold, showing what we should do, and from what we should decline. The things to be done, is keeping ⟨image 69⟩it holy, celebrating an holy rest unto God. The things to be forborne, are all body lie works, and to see that those which be under our government, as children, servants, and all inferiors do the like, and that our beasts be not put to any civill labour, yea that the stranger, when he comes amongst us, do not openly profane the same, though we cannot enforce him to come to the public exercises, yet those that are in superiority, must restrain him from public violating of it, by open working, and must lay the authority so far upon him, as that they suffer him not among their people, and in their jurisdiction, in the face of the congregation, openly to break the commandment of God. The reasons are diverse, first drawn from the equity and righteousness of it in these words, six days shalt thou labour q. d. I have given thee six days for thy business, and have taken but one for my self, therefore thou must be very well contented, to yield to me in this so reasonable and equal a commandment. If I had taken six to my service & given thee but one for the works of thy calling, yet thou shouldest in duty have obeyed me, but now that I am so liberal to thee, and scant to my self, having so large allowance, there is no reason why thou shouldest refuse. The second reason, is taken from the authority and right of God, in these words, The seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God, q. d.