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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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First the heart falls a lusting, and what then? then there is no stay, the violence of their lusts carries them headlong, and they cannot be at quiet till they have undone a man, and spoiled him of all his goods.
First the heart fals a lusting, and what then? then there is no stay, the violence of their lusts carries them headlong, and they cannot be at quiet till they haue vndone a man, and spoild him of all his goods.
And this was Acans first beginning of Thievery. He saw a fair garment and a wedge of gold, that was no particular mans indeed, but he knew it was none of his, for God had challenged the spoil of all that City to himself, but he thought that there was enough for God and for him to, and therefore he let his heart loose to desire it, and then he could not hold his hands of, but took it to his own destruction and the utter ruin of his whole family, for they were all put to death, and the first beginning was his coveting heart. So Ahab looks out of his window upon a time, and sees how commodiously Naboths vineyard stood to his palace, and thought the might make him a fair garden there, and he might have a golly private walk as it were, so close to his, & therefore he would fain have it. And so sends for Naboth & offers him some consideration for it, but Naboth knew that he might not alienate his possession from himself, that God had given him, therefore he says him nay, but his desire was so earnest and importunate that it would take no nay, and therefore he was even sick with grief and desire of that which was none of his. And then there was no way left, but Naboth must be slain, and by hook and crook Ahab must have the vineyard, and so Naboths ⟨image 158⟩[…] ⟨p. 58⟩[…] ⟨image 159⟩life and vineyard were both taken away, but so that Ahab destroyed his family and posterity by this evil covetousness.