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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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But if you stand so much in examining his goodness by other mens, you will drive him to try your goodness with other women. Be not there many wives, more subject to their husbands, more quiet and meek, and that go far beyond your self in many graces? So that in such objections, let inferiors couch these two one with the other, and look to their own faults as well as to another's, and they shall not find great cause to complain. O but he sails in doing his duty to me: but God fails not in commanding you to do your duty to him. This is the point, be you a Christian or an hypocrite? If you be a Christian, then GODS commandment must be the rule of your obedience, and not the dealing of others to you. Therefore this doth justly reprove their audacious boldness and shameless impudence, that if their parents grow old, or impotent or poor; then they think they may take liberty to caff of the yoke of subjection, and to grow stubborn; as who should say, that age and poverty of such like things, could cut of the nature of a parent, and take away the authority of a superior, & that outward things should have the chief account, and Gods commandment be least of all regarded.
But if you stand so much in examining his goodnesse by other mens, you will driue him to trie your goodnesse with other women. Be not there many wiues, more subiect to their husbands, more quiet and meeke, and that goe farre beyond your selfe in many graces? So that in such obiections, let inferiours couch these two one with the other, and looke to their owne faults as well as to anothers, and they shall not finde great cause to complayne. O but he sayles in doing his dutie to me: but God failes not in commaunding you to doe your duetie to him. This is the point, be you a Christian or an hypocrite? If you bee a Christian, then GODS commaundement must be the rule of your obedience, and not the dealing of others to you. Therefore this doth iustly reprooue their audacious boldnesse and shamelesse impudence, that if their parents growe olde, or impotent or poore; then they thinke they may take libertie to caff of the yoake of subiection, and to grow stubborne; as who should say, that age and pouertie of such like things, could cut of the nature of a parent, and take away the authoritie of a superiour, & that outward things should haue the chiefe account, and Gods commaundement be least of all regarded.