The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…

Name: The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
Author: John Dod

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.

John Dod 1549?–1645London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603

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AN EXPOSITION UPON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. › Commandment 9: Now follows the ninth commandment. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy n…AN EXPOSITION VPON THE TEN COMMANDEMENTS. › Commandment 9: Now followes the ninth commaundement. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy n…

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Take heed of making such conclusions, for a man may want the feeling of his faith, and cry and call again and again for it, and feel nothing all this while, yet nevertheless have true and sound faith, if he feel not faith; but he feels the want of faith, and the desire of it, this is an infallible sign that he hath true faith. But do not agree with the devil to persecute your self, fight against him not with him, against your self, you shall find he is strong enough alone, you had not need join with him, but rather set to resist him: if one be once the child of God in truth he is so for ever, if once in the favour of God, for ever in the favour of God. If God loved once, he loves ever, for though our feeling alter, yet there is no change in him. Thus much for breaking this commandment, by speaking that which is false concerning themselves.

Take heed of making such conclusions, for a man may want the feeling of his faith, and crie and call againe and againe for it, and feele nothing all this while, yet neuerthelesse haue true and sound faith, if he feele not faith; but he feeles the want of faith, and the desire of it, this is an infallible signe that he hath true faith. But doe not agree with the diuell to persecute your selfe, fight against him not with him, against your selfe, you shall find he is strong enough alone, you had not need ioyne with him, but rather set to resist him: if one be once the child of God in truth he is so for euer, if once in the fauour of God, for euer in the fauour of God. If God loued once, he loues euer, for though our feeling alter, yet there is no chaunge in him. Thus much for breaking this commaundement, by speaking that which is false concerning themselues.

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Now it follows concerning others, and that is either public or private. Public first, when the magistrate or judge passeth a false sentence in any cause that comes to be hard before them. This is a most heavy sin and is as much as in them is to make God a liar, for he stands in the place and is his substitute and vicegerent here one earth; now then for him to bear men in hand that that judgement which he gives is the judgement of God that sets him there, when yet he knows it is false and corrupt, this is even to draw God to be the author of a lye, so much as he can. And this is not only a

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