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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.
Therefore those whom God hath made the head and hands of the commonwealth, must join their endeavour together, to root out the race of ungodly and vile persons. Which some time agone was by wholesome and good laws something well ⟨image 130⟩redressed among us; but now through the negligence of the inferior magistrates, and foolish pity in not executing these laws, they begin to revive afresh, and if the wiser care and diligence of magistrates in higher place be not, will take head again to the shame of them, & the hurt of the whole commonwealth. Therefore as they will have a care to perform their own duty, and wipe away their own shame, and heal manifold evils of the commonwealth, and hinder manifold foul sins amongst men, and establish a chief point of honesty in and by their government, they must sweep away this filth of the earth, and so, that no allowance or maintenance be given unto them; for the only mercy to such is to help them out of their sin by punishment, and a great note of friendship and love to God and the commonwealth is to amend or cut of those that be professed enemies to both.
Therefore those whom God hath made the head and hands of the commonwealth, must ioyne their endeauour together, to root out the race of vngodly and vilde persons. Which some time agone was by wholesome and good lawes somthing well ⟨image 130⟩redressed among vs; but now through the negligence of the inferiour magistrates, and foolish pittie in not executing these lawes, they begin to reuiue afresh, and if the wiser care and diligence of magistrates in higher place be not, will take head again to the shame of them, & the hurt of the whole commonwealth. Therefore as they will haue a care to performe their owne duty, and wipe away their owne shame, and heale manifold euils of the commonwealth, and hinder manifold foule sinnes amongst men, and establish a chiefe point of honestie in and by their gouernment, they must sweepe away this filth of the earth, and so, that no allowance or maintenance be giuen vnto them; for the onely mercie to such is to helpe them out of their sinne by punishment, and a great note of friendship and loue to God and the commonwealth is to amend or cut of those that be professed enemies to both.