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.

Title

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.

Author

Dod, John, 1549?-1645.

Publication

London :: Imprinted by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, dwelling in Pater Noster Row, at the signe of the Talbot,

1603.

Rights/Permissions

This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.

Subject terms

Ten commandments -- Early works to 1800.

Link to this Item

https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20559.0001.001 content_copy

Cite this Item

"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20559.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To the Christian Reader.
• A necessarie Table, referring the Reader to the principall matters con∣tained in this booke.
• AN EXPOSITION VPON THE TEN COM∣MANDEMENTS.
  • Exod. 20. 1. God spake these wordes, and saide, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egipt, out of the house of bondage.
    • God spake these words.
    • All these Words.
    • I am IEHOVAH▪
    • Thy GOD.
    • Which brought thee out of the land of Aegipt, out of the house of bondage.
  • Thou shalt haue none other gods before mee.
    • Before my face.
  • Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image, nor the likenesse of any thing that is in heauen. &c.
    • Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any idoll.
    • I am Iehouah thy God, a iealous strong God.
    • Visiting the sinnes of the fathers on the children.
    • Of them that hate mee.
    • And shewes mercie to thowsands of them that &c.
    • Those that loue him and keepe his commandements.
  • Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine, for the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that takes his name in vaine.
    • For the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that takes his name in vaine.
  • Remember that thou keepe holy the sabboth day, sixe daies shalt thou labour & do all that thou hast to doe, but the seauenth day is the sabboth of the Lord thy God, in it; thou shalt doe no manner of worke, thou and thy sonne, and thy daughter, thy man seruant, thy maide seruant, thy cattell and the stranger that is within thy gates, &c.
    • Remember.
    • To keepe it holy.
    • Sixe daies shalt thou labour &c.
    • It is the sabboth of the Lord thy God.
    • In it thou shalt doe no manner of worke.
    • Thou.
    • Nor the stranger that is within thy gates.
    • For in sixe daies the Lord made heauen and earth, the sea, &c. and rested the seauenth day.
    • In sixe dayes the Lord created the heauen and earth.
    • Wherefore the Lord blessed the seauenth day, and hallowed it.
  • The summe of the fifth Commaun∣dement is to shew what duties we owe one to another in respect of their and our place.
    • Exod. 20. 12. Honour thy father and thy mother, &c.
    • That the Lord thy God giueth thee.
  • Thou shalt not kill.
  • Thou shalt not commmit adulterie.
  • Thou shalt not steale.
  • Now followes the ninth com∣maundement. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour.
  • Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house nor his wife nor his ser∣uant nor his Oxe nor his Asse nor any thing that is his:
    • Nor any thing that is his.