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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 serves for the sharp reproof of the swinish, and unnatural disposition of many ungracious children, that so long as the parents have any thing to give, and something may be be gotten by them, all that while they will be so kind, and ⟨image 106⟩so loving, and there is such striving and catching, that well is he that can get the old one; but when their parents are drawn dry and they have sucked all from him, and left nothing once, then he is neglected of all, then every day is an year till he be dead, then he is a burden and a clog, and he must be eating and drinking, then he doth nothing but spend, he gets nothing; such foul and currish speeches shall be heard oft times from the mouths of wicked and unnatural children. This is the fowlest dishonour that can be, not to relieve and help the weak and distressed parents. As Christ faith, Matt. 15. 6. such honour not their parents, those that pretend by bestowing it an other way to be freed from relieving their parents, these do not honour there parents. And for these churlish and beastly people let them look for it, if God cast them not into hell before, their children shall make even with them, and revenge, and quit there parents wrongs to the full, by the like savage dealing with them.
This serues for the sharpe reproofe of the swinish, and vnnaturall disposition of many vngratious children, that so long as the parents haue anie thing to giue, and something may be be gotten by them, all that while they will be so kinde, and ⟨image 106⟩so louing, and there is such striuing and catching, that well is he that can get the old one; but when their parents are drawne drie and they haue sucked all from him, and left nothing once, then he is neglected of all, then euerie day is an yeare till he be deade, then he is a burden and a clogge, and he must be eating and drinking, then he doth nothing but spende, he gets nothing; such foule and currish speaches shalbe hearde oft times from the mouthes of wicked and vnnaturall children. This is the fowlest dishonour that can be, not to releeue and helpe the weake and distressed parents. As Christ faith, Matt. 15. 6. such honour not their parents, those that pretende by bestowing it an other way to bee freed from releeuing their parents, these doe not honour there parents. And for these churlish and beastly people let them looke for it, if God cast them not into hell before, their children shall make euen with them, and reuenge, and quitte there parents wronges to the full, by the like fauage dealing with them.