A20559:547
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The things forbidden either Inward in all unclean lusts. Outward 1. Adultery. 2. Fornication Unnatural with others self. natural in marriage either entering without parents consent &c. using out of season and immoderately. 3. Uncleanness either Wantonness.
The things forbidden eyther Inward in all vncleane lusts. Outward 1. Adulterie. 2. Fornicatiō Vnnaturall with others selfe. naturall in mariage eyther entring without parents consent &c. vsing out of season and immoderatly. 3. Vncleanenesse eyther Wantonnes.
In the Things pertaining to body, as apparel, food, sleep. body parts hand eye and foot. whole in dancing.
In the Things parteyning to bodie, as apparrell, food, sleepe. bodie parts hand eye and foot. whole in dauncing.
First for filthy lusts and desires of the heart consented unto. Though they be kept in & neither break forth in word nor deed, yet this very lust and desire it self makes, one a breaker of this commandment before God. As our Saviour Christ the law maker and therefore also the best expositor of it doth testify Math. 5. 27. I say unto you he that ⟨p. 52⟩looketh upon a woman to lust after, he hath committed adultery with her all ready in his heart. They of old (afore he saith) meaning the Pharisees had said thou shalt not commit adultery, extending the commandment no further then the gross act and that they would not have men commit, because it would bring reproach upon their name and death unto their body▪ but Christ makes a more narrow meaning, and shows that the adultery of the heart is odious to God as well as that of the body, and that men cannot more easily see and perceive that outward filthiness, then he doth the inward; for he hath pure eyes that can abide none iniquity, and he searcheth the heart and reins. An unclean heart therefore wishing foul things, and meditating upon vile matters is most hateful to God.