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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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Thus we see what be the causes of this evil suspicion, namely at the lest foolishness and uncharitableness, or else an ill conscience and deep hypocrisy and the one of these is always a cause. Now the effects are even as bad, for if the heart be ⟨p. 82⟩infected thus it makes one apt and ready to speak & do evil, if one allow himself to think evil, he cannot withhold his tongue to speak it, and his hand to practise ill if occasion serve, for what ever is within in the thought that will show it self openly, it will bewray it self in the mouth, in the hand, in all ones actions. As appears in Daniels enemies that having conceived an ill opinion of him, that he kept them from honour, did nothing else but practise and lay devilish plots till they had brought him into danger of death and found him within the compass of a law. All this malice arose from hence, that they falsely suspected Daniel to forestall them of honour and to have kept them from that high place, that they thought themselves as worthy of, and every way as fit for it as he.
Thus we see what be the causes of this euill suspicion, namely at the lest foolishnesse and vncharitablenesse, or else an ill conscience and deepe hipocrisie and the one of these is alwaies a cause. Now the effects are euen as bad, for if the heart bee ⟨p. 82⟩infected thus it makes one apt and readie to speake & do euill, if one allow himselfe to thinke euill, hee cannot withhold his tongue to speake it, and his hand to practise ill if occasion serue, for what euer is within in the thought that will shew it selfe opēly, it will bewray it selfe in the mouth, in the hand, in all ones actiōs. As appeares in Daniels enemies that hauing cōceiued an ill opinion of him, that he kept them from honour, did nothing else but practise and lay diuilish plots till they had brought him into danger of death and founde him within the compasse of a law. All this malice arose from hence, that they falsely suspected Daniel to forestall them of honour and to haue kept them from that high place, that they thought themselues as worthye of, and euery way as fitte for it as hee.