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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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Wives obey your own husbands. Using this as a reason, if they be your husbands. If God hath set them over you, as your head and governor, you must submit your selves to ⟨p. 2⟩them for this cause, and in obedience to Gods commandment, howsoever they be otherwise froward and foolish, if they be yours, then you must perform your duty unto them. So for servants, the point is not whether he be a poor man or rich, a simple man and ignorant, or wise and discreet, but is he a master? hath God made him a governor? then for the time that one is a servant, he stands in the place of Christ in his family, and is to be obeyed, as if he were the most honourable and wise in the world.
Wiues obey your owne husbands. Vsing this as a reason, if they be your husbands. If God hath set them ouer you, as your head and gouernour, you must submitte your selues to ⟨p. 2⟩them for this cause, and in obedience to Gods commaundement, howsoeuer they be otherwise froward and foolish, if they be yours, then you must performe your duetie vnto them. So for seruants, the poynt is not whether hee bee a poore man or rich, a simple man and ignorant, or wise and discreete, but is he a master? hath God made him a gouernour? then for the time that one is a seruant, he stands in the place of Christ in his family, and is to be obeyed, as if hee were the most honourable and wise in the world.
The use of this is to confute those wretched and miserable children that take occasion to be undutiful, because their parents be poor and low, and in disgrace and small account among men. But be they so? then the child ought so much the more to honour them, or else he adds affliction to affliction. Therefore so far should he be from contemning his parents, because they be low and afflicted, as that he should reverence them, and honour them the more, that he may be a comfort and relief unto them in their trouble.
The vse of this is to consute those wretched and miserable children that take occasion to be vndutifull, because their parents be poore and low, and in disgrace and small account among men. But be they so? then the childe ought so much the more to honour them, or else he addes afflication to afflication. Therefore so farre should he be from contemning his parents, because they be low and afflicted, as that he should reuerence them, and honour them the more, that he may be a comfort and reliefe vnto them in their trouble.