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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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For as one must not yield to the flatteries of other, so neither must he yield to their false accusations concerning himself, that tend to make him think worse of himself then indeed he ought, and so to disable him to do that good he should, and also hath liberty to do. So Job would not accord to the sayings of his friends in this case, let them say as oft as they pleased that he was an hypocrite, and had not an upright heart before God, Job would not for all that consent that it was so, he would not while he lived forsake his innocency, and let let go the purity of his cause, nor would think a whit the worse of his former life or of his present estate for all their proofs and reasons that they did falsely allege against him, for he knew that he had many days and times before, made all even betwixt God and himself, he had many a time cast over his accounts, and found himself acquitted of all before God, that no debt remained to be laid to his charge. For howsoever no man whiles his life endures shall be freed from the dregs of sin, and the spots of corruption, yet when he in a sight of his faults, comes to repent, and be sorry for them, and to pray to God for pardon for them, and to believe that God for Christs sake will forgive them, he is as free then from the guilt and punishment of all his sins, as if he had been ever from the action of them,
For as one must not yeeld to the flatteries of other, so neither must he yeeld to their false accusations concerning himselfe, that tend to make him thinke worse of himselfe then indeed he ought, and so to disable him to doe that good he should, and also hath libertie to doe. So Iob would not accord to the sayings of his friends in this case, let them say as oft as they pleased that he was an hypocrite, and had not an vpright heart before God, Iob would not for all that consent that it was so, he would not while he liued forsake his innocencie, and let let goe the puritie of his cause, nor would thinke a whit the worse of his former life or of his present estate for all their proofes and reasons that they did falsely alledge against him, for he knew that he had many daies and times before, made all euen betwixt God and himselfe, he had many a time cast ouer his accounts, and found himselfe acquitted of all before God, that no debt remained to be laid to his charge. For howsoeuer no manwhiles his life endures shall be freed from the dregs of sinne, and the spots of corruption, yet when he in a sight of his faults, comes to repent, and be sorrie for them, and to pray to God for pardon for them, and to beleeue that God for Christs sake will forgiue them, he is as free then from the guilt and punishment of all his sinnes, as if he had beene euer from the action of them,