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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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IN that God prefixed, in special terms as it were of set purpose to meet with mens forgetfulness, a memorandum here more then in any other of the commandments, we may hence learn that who ever will faithfully and conscionably keep the sabbath when it is come, must before hand have a special care & a forecast to prevent those things that may hinder them in the keeping of it. A reason of this caveat which God gives, and of the diligence that we must have in thus remembering and preparing for the sabbath, may be drawn from our own infirmity, that unless we be very circumspect, and cast about with care indeed, we are ready easily to let slip some business, and leave something undone which will then distract us and draw our minds and bodies to, from gods service, some money to pay or to receive, some journey to take, some odd thing or other, that being forgotten in time, will rush in upon us now, and must be done now, because it was omitted before, and cannot tarry till after; sith then we are so subject to destruction, and so soon to forget things, that if we had had a care before, might have been done well without any trouble in the sabbath, but now through our negligence comes upon us on that day, this must teach us to have a heavenly foresight that we provide against all such lets, and cut off by our godly care all such encumbrances. That policy and care which we see in natural men about the market of their bodies, we must learn for this market of our soul, they will be providing and thinking before what they must buy at the market, and what they must carry to the market, and will not have the things to be in doing, when they should have them ready to carry with them, but look that the ⟨p. 69⟩things they purpose to sell be prepared, that so they may not be hindered but be there in good time to make their markets for their best advantage. So if ever we will make good markets for our souls, we must all the week before, be preparing our harts, and setting all things straight, that our harts may be burdened with no sin nor no worldly care then, which should carry away the force of our meditations & thoughts from the exercises of religion;