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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
That the Lord thy God giveth thee.
That the Lord thy God giueth thee.
In that he saith, God gives them this land; This we learn, that all good things are the gifts of God, as the people of god say in the Psalm, the sword and bow did not bring them into the land of Canaan but the word of God, and his promise made to Abraham to give that land to him and his seed for ever. So that God gives possessions and inheritances not wit nor nature. As Deut. 2. God saith he gave the Edomites, Ammonites, and the Moabites their possession, and he did cast out great ⟨p. 36⟩giants, they thought it had been their valour, but God saith it was his gift, for else they could not have stood before those huge and wast giants. And he saith they shall have it still. So that God both puts and keeps men in possession. For he gave them power, and then giants could not keep them out. So in the Psal. The earth is the Lords, and he gives a reason, he hath made it, and founded it on the waters, all men in the world can make nothing and when is it made they have no power to preserve it; because therefore God only can create and make these things he is the only true honour of them. And though he sometime put man in possession, yet he never puts himself out, but he will have the disposing of all; No man hath the fee simple of his life, the best tenure is tenant at will, and if god call the soul, it must not take day with him.
In that he saith, God giues them this land; This we learne, that all good thinges are the gifts of God, as the people of god say in the Psalme, the sword and bowe did not bring them into the land of Canaan but the word of God, and his promise made to Abraham to giue that land to him and his seede for euer. So that God giues possessions and inheritances not wit nor nature. As Deut. 2. God saith he gaue the Edomits, Ammonites, and the Moabites their possession, and he did cast out greate