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Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things
Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things: or, the doctrine of regeneration, the new birth, the very beginning of a godly life. Delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire.
London: printed by J.F. for I.A., 1650
Appendix › Chapter 2 › Section 7 › Or for the sins here forbidden.
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Or for the sins here forbidden.
Say: 1 Hast thou not sometimes envied others for their wealth, 1or for their gifts, or for their respects with others? 2. Hast thou not offended others in gestures, gnashing on them with thy teeth, or sharpening thine eyes on them? 3. Hast thou not ⟨p. 57⟩fended others in words, by censuring, or reviling, 2or rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing? 4. Hast thou not offended others in deeds, plotting against the just, 3or doing evil to any man? 5. Hast thou not been angry with thy brother without cause, or continued long in anger, keeping thy wrath (as it were) for ever? 6. Hast thou not rejoiced at others fall, 4or wished a curse to their souls? 7. Hast thou not done evil to thy self, by inordinate fretting, or grieving, or drinking, or surfeiting, 5or saying in thy passions, Would God I were dead? 8. Hast thou not been a sower of discord, or some way or other, a just occasion of the discomfort, or of the death of thy neighbour? If in any of these thou hast transgressed, thou hast then broken this Commandment, Thou shalt do no murder.