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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 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.
The omission of the dutie to the soule is either of superiours or inferiours. Of superiours as first and cheifly of the minister, if he doe not preach and admonish his people plainly and fathfully, he is guiltie of murdering & distroying their soules. As in Ezek. 32. If hee tell not the people of their sinnes they shall die in them, but the bloud shall be required at his hands, and if hee doe tell them though they amend not he is free as Paule saith, I am innocent of the bloude of you, and why? because I haue tolde you all the counsell of God and kept nothing backe. And for other gouernours also as the parents and masters of families, for euerie man is a bishop in his owne familie. For so he saith in Deut. Thou O Israell shalt teach these thinges vnto thy children thou shalt talke of them &c. Those then that haue no care to teach their children and seruants to know God, or to come to the word of God, wherby they may be sanctified and brought to saluation, such embrue their hands with the bloud of their soules, and are guiltie of crueltie, because through their negligence they let those that are committed to their charge to run headlong into their owne distruction. Such are those against whose soule this charge shall lye harde at the day of the Lord; That neuer so much as will their inferiours to come to heare Gods worde and to such exercises, as may encrease their knowledge, but rather permitte, yea encourage them to breake the Lords sabboth and spend it in foolish and wicked exercises either at hōe or else abroad to gad to other towns to commit sinne.