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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 those words GOD commands the substance of the whole law, both in the first and second table, and for the second table he begins with the first commandment. Fear every man his mo there. One would have thought he should have begun with the father, but though more be due unto him yet because it is a greater not of truth to perform it to the mother, because her infirmities ⟨image 103⟩whereto she is more subject, make her more subject to contempt and for her indulgency, commonly the mother doth less exact this at her child's hand, therefore God doth begin there where obedience is best tried, and faith, Fear thy Mother and thy father. and then for the first table he sets down the last commandment of it. Keep my sabbaths, and whosoever is careful in the first table conscionably to keep the sabbath, and for the second to keep the fifth commandment in duty to superiors, he shall be sure to hold out in all the other commandments; so that reverence of the heart is required of children. The second branch of reverence is in the outward behaviour; as in bowing to them, in standing bare and putting of before them, in an humble and lowly countenance and behaviour when one speaks unto them. And this the example of Joseph shows. Genesis. 48. He was a great Prince and his father but a poor man, and lived at his finding, he had his sight and his father for age was blind, and therefore could not see his duty, yet when he comes to his poor father and his blind father, he bows to the ground, and behaves himself so lowly as if his father had been a mighty man, and had his sight as perfectly as ever in his life. Because he knew that neither blindness nor poverty could take a way the nature of a father nor the duty of a son. Therefore he being a prince is as dutiful to his father a poor man, as if his father had been a Prince & he poor, for the outward estate did not move him so much as the conscience and regard of his duty which he knew to be nothing lessened. So king Solomon when his mother came unto him sitting on his throne, it is noted that he rose up from hsi throne, and bowed himself unto her; and caused all things else to cease, till he had set his old mother in a place of honour fit for her.
In those words GOD commandes the substance of the whole lawe, both in the first and second table, and for the second table he begins with the first cōmandemēt. Feare euery man his mo ther. One would haue thought he should haue begun with the father, but though more be due vnto him yet because it is a greater not of truth to performe it to the mother, because her infirmities