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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The use of all these duties to those whose parents are not alive, is to look that their sins be not alive after their parents death. And therefore to examine themselves, whether they have been faulty in any of these things, and if they do repent for it, and desire pardon, else they be liable to two plagues. First that their children should take their parents quarrel in hand, and requite their wicked dealing in what ever duty they have ⟨p. 7⟩failed, and have not repented of it. And secondly, that as honouring parents, brings a long and happy life; so their dishonouring their parents should make them have a short life and miserable, or if a long life, yet full of Gods curses for their unrepented sonne. Therefore let such as be now fatherless, mark themselves, and finding that their children are stubborn against them, and unthankful and rebellions every way, as many may see it openly and woefully, let call themselves back, and see what kind of children they were before, how they behaved themselves to their parents, whether they were not all together faulty in this point. If it be so, let them confess that their own sins have found them out, and are turned open, let them acknowledge that God is just, and hath given the same measure into their bosoms; their own evil is fallen upon their own heads, they digged a pit in their youth, and now in their age are fallen into it. And thus much of the duties of children.
The vse of all these duties to those whose parents are not aliue, is to looke that their sinnes be not aliue after their parents death. And therefore to examine themselues, whether they haue beene faultie in any of these things, and if they do repent for it, and desire pardon, else they be lyable to two plagues. First that their children should take their parents quarrell in hand, and requite their wicked dealing in what euer dutie they haue ⟨p. 7⟩fayled, and haue not repented of it. And secondly, that as honouring parents, brings a long and happie life; so their dishonouring their parents should make them haue a short life and miserable, or if a long life, yet full of Gods curses for their vnrepented sonne. Therfore let such as be now fatherlesse, marke themselues, and finding that their children are stubborne against them, and vnthankfull and rebellions euerie way, as many may see it openly and wofully, let call themselues backe, and see what kinde of children they were before, how they behaued themselues to their parents, whether they were not all together faultie in this point. If it be so, let them confesle that their owne sinnes haue found them out, and are turned open, let them acknowledge that God is iust, and hath giuen the same measure into their bosomes; their own euill is fallen vpon their owne heads, they digged a pit in their youth, and now in their age are fallen into it. And thus much of the duties of children.