Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

2. He who Fears God, walks by Rule rather than Example: Example is for the most part corrupt. Examples of great men are influential^*. Pharaoh had learned Joseph to swear, but Joseph had not learned Pharaoh to pray. The examples of others cannot justify a thing intrinsically evil^†. A fearer ⟨p. 54⟩of God steers the Rudder of his Life according to the Compass of the Word. He looks to the sacred Canon as the Mariner to the Load-Star, or Israel to the Pillar of Fire, to direct him. Isa. 8.20. To the Law, to the Testimony.

2. He who Fears God, walks by Rule rather than Example: Example is for the most part corrupt. Examples of great men are influential^*. Pharaoh had learned Ioseph to swear, but Ioseph had not learned Pharaoh to pray. The examples of others cannnot justifie a thing intrinsecally evil^†. A fearer ⟨p. 54⟩of God steers the Rudder of his Life according to the Compass of the Word. He looks to the sacred Canon as the Mariner to the Load-Star, or Israel to the Pillar of Fire, to direct him. Isa. 8.20. To the Law, to the Testimony.

1. *Princeps imperio magnus, exemplo major Paterculus.
2. †Multitudo errantium non parit errori patrocinium, Hierom.