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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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But how foul and vile a sin this is, The ill effects that follow of it do declare, the first is set down Proverbs. 5. 11. it consumes the flesh and the body. It is a fire in the bones, it breeds eating & incurable diseases, that as the sin makes one loathsome in the sight of God, so the plague may make him loathsome in the sight of men. If one be so audacious as to break the covenant of God, though it be a thing much neglected of men, and they will not cut him of according to Gods law, (for by the law of God the adulterer is as culpable of death as the wilful murderer) yet God meets with him, and by filthy diseases brings him to his death. Proverbs. 6. 26. the holy Ghost saith, it brings one to a morsel of bread, that is, to extremity of poverty, and so Job in Chap. 31. saith of this sin, that had been a fire to have rooted out all mine increase, this will make spoil and havoc of all a man hath. And it consumes not only the goods and body, but there is a further consumption then all this, he that doth it destroys his own soul; he forfeits his body and goods, and worse then all this he gets a perpetual blot to his name that he shall never be able to put away, unless he do truly repent, and so get it washed away by the blood of Christ that will make all clean. But else he shall have a shameful name, an ill report, all the brave apparel, all the bribing and colouring in the world will not cover this blot of the name and estimation, for he is a needless thief that doth not steal for necessity, but of presumption and therefore deserves no pity.
But how foule and vile a sinne this is, The ill effects that follow of it doe declare, the first is set downe Prouerbs. 5. 11. it consumes the flesh and the bodie. It is a fire in the bones, it breedes eating & incurable diseases, that as the sin makes one lothsome in the sight of God, so the plague may make him lothsom in the sight of men. If one be so audatious as to breake the couenant of God, though it be a thing much neglected of men, and they will not cut him of according to Gods law, (for by the law of God the adulterer is as culpable of death as the willfull murderer) yet God meetes with him, and by filthie diseases brings him to his death. Prouerbs. 6. 26