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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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Also for matts of the body, we must be touched with the griefs of other.. as. Heb. 13. 3. Remember those that are afflicted as if ye were also afflicted. And we must be as members of one body, now we know that the members be all partakers of the grief & pain, if any one yea but the meanest suffer any thing; and so if we have that love that ought to be in the hearts of christians, we cannot choose but we shall feel in some part the afflictions of christians and see that they shall in some part also pertain unto us. And this the example of Jobs friends Job. 2. 11. shows; it is said that having heard of the misery whereinto Job ⟨p. 46⟩was suddenly cast they came to him. What to do? not as common custom is to bid him be of good cheer, and we hope he shall do well, and such shuttle comforts, for no man can give sound words of consolation, until himself have a true spirit of consolation, but they came to lament with him; they wept with him, rent their cloths and sat down with him mourning. They hearing their friends woe, would let him know that they were touched with it, and therefore they show it by crying and sitting on the dust making his case theirs, so near as might be. And if one be thus sensibly affected with other mens sorrows this good effect will follow, that they will be very ready and willing to relieve them and show works of mercy unto them. As if one part be troubled with a king pain, you need not make a long oration to stir up the other parts to use the best means they can to ease and help it, for they are partakers of the grief. But for want of these bowels of mercy, it comes to pass that men be so hardly drawn and hailed to any work of mercy, that it must be pulled from them by main strength, and so many arguments, so many reasons, so many inducements must constrain them to it before they will yield, and then when all this is done, they drop out with a thing of nothing, nothing to the purpose, and those that be bountiful and liberal enough in matters of vanity and lust, be so holdfast, and sparing for works of mercy, that one can hardly wring a penny from them, by all the persuasions he can make: and what is the matter▪ they be so slow and unwilling?
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