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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
House.) The house is put in the first place, not because the house is more deer and near then the wife, but because this injury in desiring the house, extendeth it self to the husband, to the wife, to the children, and servants, yea to the beasts also and cattle, every one hath a part in it, it is more general then the rest, in hurting, therefore it is placed in the first place. In that this breach is set in the first place that is hurtful to more, We learn that those sins, which are injurious to more men, are more hurtful to ones self, and most hated of God, and for this cause coveting other mens houses is set in the first rank, and in the chief place of it, and most abhorred. So in Isaiah, the Lord pronounceth an especial woe and curse against those that join house to house, that they may dwell alone in the land. So in Job. 20. he shows the curse and vengeance of God that light upon those which are spoilers of houses. He pulled down houses which he built not. This is the sin. It were a foul fault for one to begin well, and end ill, to build houses for the harbour, and help of mankind, at the first, and after to destroy and pull down those which he hath built. But when finds he the world in a good temper, and there was room enough for his neighbours to dwell by him, before he came, then for him to come and pull down houses, and unpeople ⟨image 195⟩the land, and waste the country, this is a most horrible and indigne thing, such as God hath provided a condigne punishment for it. Therefore God will rain upon his meat, and make him vomit his sweet morsels, and the arrows of his vengeance shall pierce through him. Solomon also shows what kind of people they be in the commonwealth, for they are ready to excuse themselves, that they meddle with base follows, and mean companions, that must not be compared with men of such worth as themselves are, better a thousand such vermin want say they, then a gentleman of place and worship be without his delights. But they do not only meddle with men of the lower sort, but they give a stroke at the prince, and at the whole land, for Solomon saith, that the strength of a prince is in the multitude of people, and the brood of mankind; they weaken the state of the prince, and the stay of the land, and by consequence are traitors, & in truth the most secret underminers of a commonwealth that can be.
House.) The house is put in the first place, not because the house is more deere and neere then the wife, but because this iniurie in desiring the house, extendeth it selfe to the husband, to the wife, to the children, and seruants, yea to the beasts also and cattle, euerie one hath a part in it, it is more generall then the rest, in hurting, therefore it is placed in the first place. In that this breach is set in the first place that is hurtfull to more, Wee learne that those sinnes, which are iniurious to more men, are more hurtfull to ones selfe, and most hated of God, and for this cause coueting other mens houses is set in the first ranke, and in the chiefe place of it, and most abhorde. So in Esay, the Lord pronounceth an especiall woe and curse against those that ioyne house to house, that they may dwell alone in the land. So in