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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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But it is not yours, when did you purchase it of God, when paid you any price to him for it? Where was the bargain sealed? What? is God shut up within the clouds and cooped in heaven, that he hath nothing to do with the earth? Nay, but time will come that they shall know to their grief, that the earth is the Lords, though he for a while hath permitted the use of it to the sons of men. Therefore let them learn to use God as a landlord, & let not their lust be the master of the lords goods.
But it is not yours, when did you purchase it of God, when paide you any price to him for it? Where was the bargaine sealed? What? is God shut vp within the clouds and cooped in heauen, that he hath nothing to doe with the earth? Nay, but time will come that they shall know to their greefe, that the earth is the Lords, though he for a while hath permitted the vse of it to the sonnes of men. Therefore let them learne to vse God as a landlord, & let not their lust be the master of the lords goods.
This serves also for the terror of those that abuse the good benefits of God to his dishonour. God will certainly turn them out. Or if he do keep them in, it shall be but as in a prison. They shall not have the use of these things by the virtue of the covenant, that they may say as it is here said, the Lord thy God hath given thee these and these things; but thus they may say the Lord thine enemy hath permitted thee to have these and these things. Judas could not say the lord my God hath given me this money, But the Lord mine enemy he permitted me to have it. And so it is with all such as abuse Gods benefits they come not in mercy as blessings as favours out of Zion, but they come as curses to harden the heart, to make them proud or covetous, and more strong to follow their lust.
This serues also for the terror of those that abuse the good benefits of God to his dishonour. God will certainly turne thē out. Or if he doe keepe them in, it shall be but as in a prison. They shall not haue the vse of these things by the vertue of the couenant, that they may say as it is heere said, the Lord thy God hath giuen thee these and these things; but thus they may say the Lord thine enemie hath permitted thee to haue these and these things. Iudas could not say the lord my God hath giuen me this monie, But the Lord mine enemie hee permitted me to haue it. And so it is with all such as abuse Gods benefits they come not in mercie as blessings as fauours out of Sion, but they come as curses to harden the heart, to make them proud or couetous, and more strong to follow their lust.