1. The commanding of Duty includeth the forbidding of the contrary.
2. Under General Commands and Prohibitions, the kinds and particulars are included which the General word extendeth to.
3. When one Particular sin is forbidden, or duty Commanded, all the Branches of it, and all of the same kind and reason are Forbidden or Commanded.
4. Where the End is commanded or forbidden, it is implied that so are the true Means as such.
5. Every Commandment extendeth to the whole Man, to our Bodies and all the Members, and to the Soul and all its Faculties respectively.
6. Commands bind us not to be always doing the thing Commanded. Duties be not at all times duty: But Prohibitions bind us at all times from every sin, when it is indeed a sin.
7. Every Command implieth some reward or benefit to the Obedient, and every sin of Omission or Commission is supposed to deserve punishment, though it be not named.h
8. Every Command supposeth the thing Commanded ⟨p. 233⟩to be no Natural impossibility, (as to see Spirits, or into the Heart of the Earth, to know that which is not intelligible, &c.) But it doth not suppose us to be Morally or Holily disposed to keep it, or to be able to change our Corrupt Natures without God's Grace.
9. So every Command supposeth us to have that Natural freedom of Will which is a self-determining Power, not necessitated or forced to sin by any: But not to have a Will that is free from Vicious inclinations: Nor from under God's disposing power.i
10. The breach of the same Laws may have several sorts of punishment: By Parents, by Masters, by Magistrates, by the Church: On Body, on Name, on Soul, in this Life by God, and finally heavier punishment in the Life to come.
11. The sins here forbidden are not unpardonable, but by Christs Merits, Sacrifice and Intercession are forgiven to all true penitent converted Believers.
1. The commanding of Duty includeth the forbidding of the contrary.
2. Under General Commands and Prohibitions, the kinds and particulars are included which the General word extendeth to.
3. When one Particular sin is forbidden, or duty Commanded, all the Branches of it, and all of the same kind and reason are Forbidden or Commanded.
4. Where the End is commanded or forbidden, it is implyed that so are the true Means as such.
5. Every Commandement extendeth to the whole Man, to our Bodyes and all the Members, and to the Soul and all its Faculties respectively.
6. Commands bind us not to be alwayes doing the thing Commanded. Dutyes be not at all times duty: But Prohibitions bind us at all times from every sin, when it is indeed a sin.
7. Every Command implyeth some reward or benefit to the Obedient, and every sin of Omission or Commission is supposed to deserve punishment, though it be not named.h
8. Every Command supposeth the thing Commanded ⟨p. 233⟩to be no Natural impossibility, (as to see Spirits, or into the Heart of the Earth, to know that which is not intelligible, &c.) But it doth not suppose us to be Morally or Holily disposed to keep it, or to be able to change our Corrupt Natures without God's Grace.
9. So every Command supposeth us to have that Natural freedom of Will which is a self-determining Power, not necessitated or forced to sin by any: But not to have a Will that is free from Vicious inclinations: Nor from under God's disposing power.i
10. The breach of the same Laws may have several sorts of punishment: By Parents, by Masters, by Magistrates, by the Church: On Body, on Name, on Soul, in this Life by God, and finally heavier punishment in the Life to come.
11. The sins here forbidden are not unpardonable, but by Christs Merits, Sacrifice and Intercession are forgiven to all true penitent converted Believers.
- hMal. 3. 14.
- iRom. 8. 6, 7, 8. Jer. 13. 23.Rom. 8. 6, 7, 8. Ier. 13. 23.
