A25294:1197
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian…The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian…
The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easy draught of the Christian catechism in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy labourer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...The substance of Christian religion, or, A plain and easie draught of the Christian catechisme in LII lectures on chosen texts of Scripture, for each Lords-day of the year, learnedly and perspicuously illustrated with doctrines, reasons, and uses / by that reverend and worthy laborer in the Lord's vineyard, William Ames ...
London: printed by T. Mabb for Thomas Davies, 1659
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The forty fourth Lords day.
Exod. 20. 17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours […], thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbours.
Exod. 20. 17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours 〈…〉, thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbours.
IN this last commandment is handled, the estate and condition of our Neighbour in common, as appeareth by these last words; or […] is […] neighbours: For as in the first Commandment of the first Table, that duty is commanded, whereon all other duties lye and depend; so also in this last Commandment of the last Table, that duty is handled, on which all others, that relate to our neighbour do depend. About this state of our neighbour in common, covetousness is forbidden; by which neither is understood the natural faculty of coveting or desiring, which is of it self good and lawful, and not to be ranked in the place of things forbidden: Nor yet every concupiscence or lust is here to be understood; because such acts of filthy lust, as have the consent of the will joined with them, for the accomplishing the acts of sin, if occasion were given, are prohibited in the other Commandments, according to their kinds, whereunto they belong, as Christ himself teacheth of a man inordinately lusting after a woman: which while he calls adultery, he shows that it is forbidden