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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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Soe much for the inward breaches of this commandment.
Soe much for the inwarde breaches of this commaundement.
The outward follow. And first by gesture, by any unhappy & froward action or behaviour done to despite, grieve or anger our brother. As Christ condemns the saying of Racha, which is not a word signifying any ill name or reproachful term, but a cutted answer joined with a contemptuous and scornful behaviour to disgrace our brother. As if one should say what you sir, come up gape, or such like when the untoward and disdainful gesture to grieve our brother makes it a sin. And so the wicked persons first practised murder against Steven in their gesture, for they gnashed their teeth at him. And so Luke. 16. Christ had spoken against covetousness, and then the Pharisees, and so many as were covetous snuffed at him, they will have him know they scorn to be controlled of him, and therefore they make but a puff of him and his sermon. And so Jacob was driven away from Laban by his evil & hard countenance and carriage of himself, for he could not look upon him in peace as at other times, but his countenance was sour and louring as Jacob says to his wives. And therefore he could tarry with him no longer. And this is so much the worse if it be in an inferior towards a superior, as if the child or the wife shall sharpen their face, and look frowningly and maliciously upon their parents or husbands; this is a great offence, and how ever they may count it a small matter, yet those against whom it is done, feel what grief it brings, and that they could with more ease suffer a blow of an other then such a dogged look there. First then here we are forbidden to be bold to grieve others by carrying our selves in countenance or behaviour rudely and ungraciously towards them.
The outward follow. And first by gesture, by any vnhappie & froward action or behauiour done to despite, grieue or anger our brother. As Christ condemnes the saying of Racha, which is not a word signifying any ill name or reprochfull tearme, but a cutted answere ioyned with a contemptuous and scornefull behauiour to disgrace our brother. As if one should say what you sir, come vp geape, or such like when the vntoward and disdainefull gesture to grieue our brother makes it a finne. And so the wicked persons first practised murther against Steuen in their gesture, for they gnashed their teeth at him. And so