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A17258	A guide vnto godlinesse: or, A plaine and familiar explanation of the ten commandements, by questions and answeres fittest for the instruction of the simple and ignorant people. By Francis Bunny, one of the prebendaries of the Cathedrall Church of Durham.; Guide unto godlinesse.	Bunny, Francis, 1543-1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 4100; ESTC S119539	83,481	241

him Q. We learne then that this Commandement may be broken by swearing either falsly or vainly by talking of Gods workes vnreuerently by vowing or promising to God not caring to performe the same by inconsiderate wishes and wandring praiers and lastly by making profession of seruing God when wee serue our owne lusts sinne or Sathan A. It is true But one thing I had almost forgotten For wée dishonour Gods Name not onely in our wandring prayers as is before sayd but also in praying to him for things vnseemly or that against our enemies hee would bee an executioner of our wrath In all these or such like requests we dishonour the name of the Lord our God And also in oathes besides false and vaine swearing already prooued to be against this Commandement it is a great dishonor to Gods Name to match him with any other in swearing or any other seruice of GOD as Gods people did for which GOD by his Prophet threatneth to destroy the land and to cut off the people and the beasts the birdes and the fishes also and this séemeth to be a great cause of that generall destruction because they did worship and sweare by God Zeph. 1.5 and by Malcham For our great and mighty God who gouerneth all things as he will scorneth so vnequally to be matched with Idols or any creatures Q. Now besides all these transgressions of this Commandement we read that God very often findeth fault with false prophets that came in his Name when hee sent them not spoke in his name when hee bid them not and made the people beleeue they were his true Messengers yet were nothing lesse Did not such take the name of the Lord in vaine A. Certainly they did So that as by that which hath formerly bin said we haue learned how euery man may transgresse this Lawe so here we are taught how these in their particular function do grieuously and very dangerously for other breake this Commandement And herein do all popish and other false Teachers wickedly offend in that they vaunt themselues as messengers from God to teach his truth when they speak of nothing but their owne fancies and mens traditions vnlesse as gracelesse murderers will cast Sugar vpon poison to deceiue him that eateth it so they now and then alleage somewhat out of Scriptures to make their hearers beleeue that al that they deliuer is like that when their doctrine and Gods word in his booke deliuered are no more like then night to day darknesse to light or Antichrist to Christ And thus much for this third Commandement I meane for the things prohibited therein Q. But what is required in this Commandement that we should do A. He who will not that wée dishonour his name would haue vs occupied in sanctifying the same For as Christ saith Mat 12.30 Hee that is not with mee is against mee and hee who gathereth not scattereth So hee who honoureth not GOD dishonoureth him whensoeuer occasion is giuen to honour him in that hee omitteth that dutie And therefore Moses though hee did not any thing whereby God might be dishonoured yet is charged not to haue honoured God because when oportunity serued with assured faith in Gods power and mercie he commanded not the Rocke to send forth water Exod. 17.6 as sometime before hee had done Because saith God ye beleeued not me Num. 20 12. to sanctifie mee before the Children of Israel therefore yee shall not bring this Congregation into the land which I haue giuen them And God accounted this such a dishonour to him Deut. 3.25 that though Moses praied God that hee might goe in and see that good land beyond Iordan Yet God would not heare his praier for that thing verse 26. Q. It appeareth then that this prohibiting or forbidding to dishonour Gods name doth necessarily containe in it a commandement to honour the same and that worthily For the honouring of his Name is the first thing that our Sauiour Christ hath taught vs to begge of God in that forme of prayer which he hath taught vs which we call the Lords Prayer Therefore as you haue taught vs how his Name may be in diuers sorts or many waies dishonoured so let vs heare how wee may apply our selues to honour the same A. First if we do the contrary to those things whereby Gods name is dishonoured As if taking his name in swearing we sweare alwaies truly and in iudgement or for deciding of controuersies of weight or importance if wee thinke or speake of his workes reuerently if wée performe the holy meanes which wee haue promised in our hearts to vse to furder vs in his seruice if in our short and ordinary wishes or solemne prayers wee with feare and reuerence sue to God seriously lastly if our outward profession of religion bee ioined with care and indeuour to serue God truly and walke worthy of our calling by these meanes we shall rightly performe this holy seruice Q. Are there not some particular or speciall obseruations which if wee follow we may more religiously apply our selues to all these duties before mentioned A. Yes verily and briefly they are these A diligent hearing or reading of Gods word For without it wée are like men that haue a desire to worke and will be doing somewhat but in the darke night when through want of light they know not whether it be right or wrong good or euil that were in Therefore that in all our doings and sufferings God may bee glorified Rom. 15.5 wee must pray to the God of patience as S. Paul calleth him that hee will giue vnto vs Phil. 1.29 not to beleeue only but to suffer also for Christs sake 1. Cor. 6.20 So shall we glorifie God in our bodie and in our Spirit as St. Paul willeth Q. What is meant by the words following For the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine A. God thereby moueth this people to take heed that they offend not against this lawe For many go forwards in their sinnes rashly thinking that as man doth not so God cannot espy or at the least doth not see their wickednesse or if he see yet he regardeth it not or that hee will not punish or that he is not of power sufficient For what is so absurd that vngodly men will not surmise to flatter themselues in their owne waies therefore God heere giueth his people to vnderstand that if they prophane his name they prouoke against them the LORD himselfe whose All-séeing Eye beholdeth the very thoughts of the heart and whose Power is infinite and not to bee hindred by any deuice or policie or to be restrained by any strength of man Who if he wher his glittering sword Deu. 32.41 and his hand take hold of iudgement will execute vengeance on his enemies and will reward them that hate him So that howsoeuer they deceiue themselues and plead not guilty yet he who knoweth them better then they

heere a peculiar promise belonging to such as honor their Parents A. That disobedient children may know that they who performe not the duty of honour to them who vnder God are authors and gouernors of their life may looke for no promise of long life but rather may feare the shortning of their daies as a punishment due to their disobedience Q. But how is long life promised as a blessing Wee see it is full of miseries wants feares cares and troubles in so much that death is many times rather desired then long life 1. Kings 19 4. Eliah sitting vnder the Iuniper tree desired that hee might dye and sayd It is now enough O Lord take my soule for I am no better then my Fathers A. Long life is not of it selfe a blessing because many times wicked men liue long 1. King 13.11 as the Prophet that deceiued the man of God that came from Iudah 1. Macha 6.16 is said to be old Antiochus liued 149. yeeres but the sinner Esay 65.20 though hee be a hundred yeeres olde shall be accursed Yet because God promiseth long life often as a blessing no doubt it is so vnto his seruants but then he so seasoneth the bitternes of this life with the sweet comfort of his fauour that not onely their dayes are prolonged but also as here Moses saith it goeth well with them wherby it commeth to passe that such doe feele to their vnspeakeable consolation the performance of this promise With length of dayes will I satisfie him I will shew him my saluation Psal 91.16 Q. But how can it be sayd the Lord their God gaue them that Land seeing Ioshua and the Israelites fought many battels Iosh 12.24 so that before they could inioy the land they smote one and thirty Kings A. First when they went to take possession of that Land of promise God made the waters of Iordan miraculously to giue place Iosh 3.17 so as they went ouer dry-shod Iericho the first Cittie that Ioshua did assault had the walles thereof battered with no other engines Iosh 6.16 then the sound of seauen Trumpets made of Rams hornes and the shout of the Israelites When the fiue Kings of the Amorites were discomforted did not God shew that he fought for them the Amorites were put to flight and many were killed in the flight GOD also cast hailestones from heauen vpon them so that moe were slaine so then by the sword And the it might yet more plainly appeare that the Lord tooke their part Ioshu 10. at the Prayer of Ioshua the Sun stood still that they might haue time enough to pursue their enemies And the Israelites being scarce well settled in that promised land of Canaan the Amalekites and Madianites and all they of the East in number like Grass-hoppers gathered together against them Gideon the Captaine of the hoast of Israel onely with three hundred men deuided into three bands set vpon this great multitude in thrée seuerall places euery man hauing a Trumpet and a Pitcher wherein was a Lampe The Israelites sounding their Trumpets and breaking their pitchers holding their Trumpets in their right hands and their Lamps in their left cryed The sword of the Lord and of Gideon and stood in their places so the Lord set euery mans sword vpon his neighbour and vpon all the host So all the host fled Vpon good ground therefore said the Prophet Psal 44.3 They inherited not the Land by their own sword neither did their owne arme saue them but thy right hand O Lord and thine arme and the light of thy countenance because thou didst fauor them Yea God himselfe euen in Ioshua his daies sold his people Iosh 24.12 Not by thy sword or by thy bow didst thou conquer the land of Canaan So that although the people sometime fought yet GOD so miraculously subdued their enemies vnto them that it must needs be confessed that GOD gaue them that Land Q. Now let vs heare somewhat of the sixt Commandement Thou shalt not kill A. The words themselues are a prohibition but out of them we must also gather a Commandement Q. But why are the three first Commandements and this and the rest that follow deliuered negatiuely or prohibiting the thing that is euill rather then commanding that which is good A. Because through the corruption that is in vs wee are so prone and inclining to euill that wee must first learne to eschew euill before wee can apply our selues to doe good we must after the counsell that our Sauiour Christ giueth Mat. 12.33 first make the tree good because Mat. 7.18 an euill tree cannot bring forth good fruit Therefore our Lord God herein teacheth vs where our reformation must begin wee must purge out the olde leauen of sinne that wee may be a new lumpe 1. Cor. 5.7 and for this cause are we forbidden to do that which is sinne that by little and little vnaccustoming our selues from our own waies we may grow and go on forward in newnesse of life Q. But what is forbidden in this Commandement A. First all killing with hand heart or tongue and the things that tend to the hurt of any mans person then also the bereauing him or spoyling of his goods or possessiōs Thirdly the Omission of such duties as tend to the safety or good of other men Q. I desire to heare of these points more particularly and first of killing with the hand A. The killing with the hand is diuersly sometime it is done bluntly without any care to cloake it as Cain killed Habel Ioab Abner and Amasa sometime craftily as Dauid killed Vriah For though he thought the matter was wittily contriued 2. Sam. 11. so as no body could charge him with it yet Nathan the man of GOD told him Thou hast killed Vriah the Hittite with the sword 2. Sam. 12.9 thou hast slaine him with the sword of the children of Ammon Sometime men murder vnder shew of iustice so was Naboth put to death for his Vineyard A fast was proclaimed Naboth accused of blasphemy the accusation prooued and he stoned who could say Achab had any hand in this Yet was the Prophet Eliah sent from God to examine him vpon this interrogatory 1. Kings 21 19. Hast thou killed and also gotten possession A lesson needfull to be learned of many Polititians in these daies who care not by secret practices to take out of the way any that may hinder their proud attempts Yet euen the greatest of them must one day stand giue account of their doings before that iust Iudge to whom no such thing is secret because his Eyes behold their very thoughts and their very intents and all the meanes which they vsed are knowne to him Q. But how may murder be committed with the heart only death not insuing A. Our Sauiour Christ in expounding this very Commandement and reprouing the interpretations of the Scribes and Pharises thereof saith But