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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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he useth his neighbour without wages and gives him not for his work and for this cause and his filthy covetousness, God would not vouchsafe him the common honour of men, to be covered with earth when he was dead, but he should be buried as an ass, his skin pulled over his ⟨image 137⟩ears, stripped of all he had, and then dragged without the City, thrown out that his carcass might be food for beasts & birds and what was his crime? why this, he did not reward the poor but served himself upon them. And this commandment is broken in omission of things pertaining to the body as in not doing works of mercy, and in not paying wages and dues to those to whom they are due.
he vseth his neighbour without wages and giues him not for his worke and for this cause and his filthy couetousnesse, God would not vouchsafe him the commō honour of men, to be couered with earth whē he was dead, but he should be buried as an asse, his skinne puld ouer his ⟨image 137⟩eares, stript of all hee had, and then dragd without the Citie, throwne out that his carcas might be food for beasts & birds and what was his crime? why this, he did not reward the poore but serued himselfe vpon them. And this commandement is broken in omission of thinges pertaining to the bodie as in not doing workes of mercie, and in not paying wages and dues to those to whom they are due.
The omission of the duty to the soul is either of superiors or inferiors. Of superiors as first and chiefly of the minister, if he do not preach and admonish his people plainly and faithfully, he is guilty of murdering & destroying their souls. As in Ezek. 32. If he tell not the people of their sins they shall die in them, but the blood shall be required at his hands, and if he do tell them though they amend not he is free as Paul saith, I am innocent of the blood of you, and why? because I have told you all the counsel of God and kept nothing back. And for other governors also as the parents and masters of families, for every man is a bishop in his own family. For so he saith in Deut. Thou O Israel shalt teach these things unto thy children thou shalt talk of them &c. Those then that have no care to teach their children and servants to know God, or to come to the word of God, whereby they may be sanctified and brought to salvation, such embrue their hands with the blood of their souls, and are guilty of cruelty, because through their negligence they let those that are committed to their charge to run headlong into their own destruction. Such are those against whose soul this charge shall lye hard at the day of the Lord; That never so much as will their inferiors to come to hear Gods word and to such exercises, as may increase their knowledge, but rather permit, yea encourage them to break the Lords sabbath and spend it in foolish and wicked exercises either at hone or else abroad to gad to other towns to commit sin.