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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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This greatest work that was done, when heaven was purchased for man, sinners made just before god, & miserable men of the earth, had the right of an immortal kingdom in heaven, bestowed upon them; all these things were brought to pass, and fully effected by these means, that to mans reason seemed of all things the most unlikely to bring to pass, a matter of such wonder and difficulty. And so at the resurrection in the twinkling of an eye, what great changes shall be, those that lay in the dust rotten, some thousands of years, shall be raised from their grave, made alive, and to stand on their feet, and that body that was at the best before subject to death, to pain, and all misery, but now turned into earth, ⟨p. 89⟩devoured of worms and corruption, and as it seemed, vanished to nothing, shall be in a moment, if it be Gods child, freed from mortality, from being subject to diseases, or any affliction, and shall be made immortal and incorruptible, and like to Christ Jesus, in glory. So wonderful we see be the works of God, so mighty he is, and so full of power, that in the shortest time, & by those that seem the weakest means, he can bring to pass the most strange and glorious effects that can be.
This greatest work that was done, when heauen was purchased for man, sinners made just before god, & miserable men of the earth, had the right of an immortall kingdome in heauen, bestowed vpon them; all these things were brought to passe, and fully effected by these meanes, that to mans reason seemed of all things the most vnlikely to bring to passe, a matter of such wonder and difficultie. And so at the resurrection in the twinkling of an eye, what great chaunges shalbe, those that lay in the dust rotten, some thousands of yeares, shalbe raysed from their graue, made aliue, and to stand on their feet, and that bodie that was at the best before subject to death, to paine, and all miserie, but now turned into earth, ⟨p. 89⟩deuoured of wormes and corruption, and as it seemd, vanisht to nothing, shalbe in a moment, if it be Gods childe, freed from mortalitie, from being subiect to diseases, or any affliction, and shalbe made immortall and incorruptible, and like to Christ Iesus, in glory. So wonderfull we see be the works of God, so mightie he is, and so full of power, that in the shortest time, & by those that seeme the weakest meanes, he can bring to passe the most strange and glorious effects that can bee.