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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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GOD spake not the first commandment only nor the second or third and left there, but he spake them all, and gave as great and strict a charge to keep every one as any one, and no one was uttered more by Gods voice or written with his own ⟨image 13⟩singer one then other. The doctrine that ariseth hence, that whosoever will have any true comfort by his obedience to Gods law, must not content himself to look to one or two, but must make conscience and have a care to keep them all, and every one first, because he that is the author of one, is the author also of all the rest, and he that hath promised a reward for keeping one, hath promised a reward also for keeping all, and he that threateneth to punish the offender, doth not say, if thou break this or that, thou shalt be cursed, but he that continueth not in all without exception, is accursed, and living and allowing himself in the breach of any one, shall be sure to bear the wrath of God: for he that doth many good things, yet allowing himself but to be disobedient in any one thing, he stands in danger to revolt continually, and to become a wicked and open persecutor. As this was Herod's case, he did many things according to Johns preaching, and did hear him gladly, and for all the other nine was reasonable willing to be ruled: but for the seventh there he must needs have a gap, and he kept this for certain, that let all the preachers in the world say what they would, he would not be brought to leave his incest, but would still keep his brothers wife. Therefore we see how soon he fell to break first the third commandment, in swearing to that light housewife, to give her what ever she should ask, and then also he grew to persecute John, and cut off his head, and when he had once taken leave, to break the seventh, he could not long stick at the rest.
GOD spake not the first commandement onely nor the second or third and left there, but he spake them all, and gaue as great and strict a charge to keepe euery one as any one, and no one was vttered more by Gods voyce or written with his owne