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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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Now the things where in children must obey their parents, are especially these. First in doing the things that they command, and performing that work that there parents set them about; that it be never so base and painful to do, so far as their strength will permit. For though some children may think; why, this work is to base and unbeseeming my worth, (for as every one is more proud & idle, so he hath a greater conceit of himself, and as he is most base and contemptible, so hath he a higher imagination of his own excellency and worth,) though they may think the works too base, yet that may not excuse. Is it too base? I; but did your father command it, and restrain you do it? Then you ⟨image 104⟩are a base and proud person, that make no more account of your own flesh then of Gods commandment; for so soon as the father hath commanded it being a lawful thing, Gods stamp is set on it, & it caries the face of Gods commandment, & he that thinks himself to good to do it, thinks himself too good to obey God. This will not serve the turn then, it is a contemptible thing in the world and men will mock me; why but are you a christian and have you not learned so far to deny the world, as to prefer Gods commandment before the contentment and mocking of men? and were it not better for you that the world should speak evil of you unjustly, for well doing. Then that god should justly plague you for well doing? An example of this obedience we have in Isaac who yielded to his fathers commandment so far as to suffer his head to be chopped of, and himself bound and laid one the wood and burnt. Because his father being a Prophet had warrant so to do, and could show the commandment of God unto him, to prove it a lawful thing he did, and twas his duty to obey.
Now the thinges where in children must obey their parents, are especiallie these. First in doing the thinges that they command, and performing that worke that there parents set them about; that it be neuer so base and painefull to doe, so far as their strength will permit. For though some children may thinke; why, this worke is to base and vnbeseeming my worth, (for as euerie one is more proud & idle, so he hath a greater conceite of himselfe, and as he is most base and contemptible, so hath he a higher imagination of his owne excellencie and worth,) though they may thinke the workes too base, yet that may not excuse. Is it too base? I; but did your father comand it, and resraine you doe it? Then you ⟨image 104⟩