A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...
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A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...
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Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.
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Oxford :: Printed by H. Hall for R. Davis,
1653.
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Sin -- Early works to 1800.
Punishment.
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Their Due.
Such as doe not honour them, may justly
feare God's anger: because it is said, Thou shalt
rise up before the hoarie head, and honour the
face of the old man; and feare thy God: I am
the Lord, Lev: 19. 32. As if the charge were
thus, Honour the face of the old man, as thou
fearest God, who will punish thee if thou dost not.
How tenderly God takes it to have them
wronged by any; you may gather by his
complaint thereof, against the king of Baby∣lon,
Thou didst shew them no mercy: upon the
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Ancient hast thou very heavily laid the yoake.
Is: 47. 6. And what a crime he accounts it, to
have them despised by the younger sort; by his
threat thereof to the Jewes (as a punishment)
Isa: 3. 5. The child shall behave himselfe proudly
against the Ancient. Such sins as are threat∣ned
for punishments, are usually great sinnes.
that was a great wrong to old men; other∣wise
it had not been threatned for a punish∣ment.
And if it were a great wrong, it was a
great sin; and if it were a great sinne, it must
expect a great punishment. Give me leave
to produce what a heathen* 1.1 speakes, in com∣mendation
of the practise under the golden
age. When, although men had no other law
besides that of nature; yet, he saies, they coun∣ted
it a capital crime, if a young man did not
rise up (as the phrase is here used likewise in
the Hebrew) to an Old man, though a poorman.
Credebant hoc grande nefas & morte piandum,Si Juvenis vetulo non assurrexerit, & siBarbato cuicun{que} puer, licet ipse videretPlura domi farra, & majores glandis acervos.Tam venerabile erat praecedere quatuor annis.
But the present age is of another mettall,
Wherein the disrespect commonly shewed
not only to old men, but to old parents, (and
such especially; for then doe we slight them
most, when we should most respect them,)
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makes this report concerning those times
almost incredible, so that I may use the
words of the Historian* 1.2 (speaking of an ar∣my,
how the younger bands gave place to the
elder) Ʋix ut verisimile sit, parentum quo{que}
hoc saeculo vilis levis{que} apud liberos autoritas.
Of the respect given and commanded to be
given to old men in Scriptures, See Job. 29. 8.
Chr: 32. 4, 6, 7. Rom: 16. 3. 1 Tim: 5. 1, 2.