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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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The third duty of Magistrates is to procure honesty, as in the same place of Timothy the Apostle speaks. Now this they must do by removing all lewd practises and persons and those things that are occasions to them, as stews and houses of filthiness, as houses of gaming, which are means to provoke men to much lust and unthriftiness, contrary to civill honesty, and good manners. These things the Magistrates must reform so far as his authority will stretch, or else he is not faithful in his place. And this was commended in Asa that he put the Sodomites out of the land.
The third dutie of Magistrates is to procure honestie, as in the same place of Timothie the Apostle speakes. Nowe this they must doe by remouing all lewd practises and persons and those thinges that are occasions to them, as stewes and houses of filthenesse, as houses of gamning, which are meanes to prouoke men to much lust and vnthriftinesse, contrarie to ciuill honestie, and good manners. These things the Magistrates must reforme so farre as his authoritie will stretch, or else hee is not faithfull in his place. And this was commended in Asa that hee putte the Sodomites out of the land.
An other point of honesty is to take order about the poor in a good honest sort. First, for rogues and runagates that being strong and lusty, make begging and wandering their trade of life, that they be severely punished and set to work.
An other point of honestie is to take order about the poore in a good honest sort. First, for rogues and runnagates that being strong and lustie, make begging and wandring their trade of life, that they be seuerely punished and set to worke.
That no maintenance or allowance be given unto them, for as the Apostle saith, He that will not work, let him not eat. And what more dishonest thing in a Christian commonwealth, then that such men should be permitted which pollute the air, and fill the land with sin? making their whole life nothing else but a continual practise of filthiness, theft, and idleness, sons of Sodom, that live without a calling, without a magistracy,