The law unsealed

From this we may see that this Command is unreasonably and unjustly divided by Papists into two Commands, the one relating to the Neighbours house, the other to his wife, and what followeth: For, 1. this concupiscence or lust looketh not only to the seventh and eighth, but to the fifth and sixth, and ninth Commands, there being an inordinate affection towards thy Neighbours life and honour, or estimation also; and it is instanced in these two, because they are more discernible and common: This then showeth that God taketh in this inordinateness of the heart, under one Command, in reference to whatsoever object it be, otherwayes we behoved to say that either the Commands are defective, or that there is no such inordinateness to other objects of other Commands (which is absurd) or by the same reason we must multiply commands for them also, which yet the adversaries themselves do not. 2. The Apostle, Rom. 7. 7. comprehendeth all inordinateness of heart towards whatsoever object it be in that Command, Thou shalt not lust, which is, as Thou shalt not de•i•e his wife, so nothing else what is thy Neighbours. 3. The inverting the order which is here, in Deut. 5. 21. where the wife is put first, not the house, showeth that the Command is one, otherwayes what is ninth in the one would be tenth in the other, and ⟨p. 270⟩contrarily, and so the order of these ten words (as they are called by the Lord) would be confounded. But the great thing we are mainly to inquire into, is the meaning of this Command; in which Papists being loath to acknowledge corrupt natures case to be so desperate as it is, and designing to maintain perfection of inherent righteousness and justification by works, do make this sin of Lust, forbidden in this Command, a very general thing, and all of us ordinarily are apt to think light of this sin.

From this we may see that this Command is unreasonably and unjustly divided by Papists into two Commands, the one relating to the Neighbours house, the other to his wife, and what followeth: For, 1. this concupiscence or lust looketh not onely to the seventh and eighth, but to the fifth and sixth, and ninth Commands, there being an inordinate affection towards thy Neighbours life and honour, or estimation also; and it is instanced in these two, because they are more discernible and common: This then sheweth that God taketh in this inordinateness of the heart, under one Command, in reference to whatsomever object it be, otherwayes we behoved to say that either the Commands are defective, or that there is no such inordinateness to other objects of other Commands (which is absurd) or by the same reason we must multiply commands for them also, which yet the adversaries themselves do not. 2. The Apostle,