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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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We know also in John. 3. That Christ cries out against those which bought and sold in the Temple, and saith, they made it a den of thieves. Why, but is it theft to buy and sell for their ⟨p. 77⟩money, to give wares in exchange honestly for silver, did they rob men because they let them have good ware for their lawful coin. No, this was not the matter, they did not rob men, but they robbed God, for they did convert that to profane & common uses, which he had ordained only for religious and holy uses. Now if men rob God which abuse the temple, being but a ceremony, and then shortly to have an end, much more those that abuse his sabbath, which is moral, to continue to the worlds end.
We know also in Iohn. 3. That Christ cries out against those which bought and solde in the Temple, and saith, they made it a den of theeues. Why, but is it theft to buy and sell for their ⟨p. 77⟩mony, to giue wares in exchange honestly for siluer, did they rob men because they let them haue good ware for their lawfull coyn. No, this was not the matter, they did not rob men, but they robbed God, for they did conuert that to prophane & common vses, which he had ordained onely for religious and holy vses. Now if men rob God which abuse the temple, being but a ceremony, and then shortly to haue an ende, much more those that abuse his sabboth, which is morall, to continue to the worlds end.
This serves then, to confute those that will be bold and venturous to do the works of their calling, upon the Lords day, and then if they be reproved for it. The answer is, why, what need you make such a stir, I hope I am neither whore nor thief? yes, they be thieves, and cursed thieves, and thieves that rob God, for the sabbath day is his, in as much right and property as any of our goods is ours; many would be ashamed if their son or daughter, should be found pilfering or prigging, from their neighbour, and it is well they should do this, but these men are never a whit ashamed that their son or daughter should rob God of his day, run abroad to vanity and dancing, and wantonness, upon his sabbath. That is youth, and it must be borne withal, nay, it is theft, and must not be suffered, for he that will deal thus unfaithfully with God, if occasion serve, will deal worse with men, and he that is not holy in the first table can never be truly righteous in the second.