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A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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1. It's a Command of the first Table, and so the breach of it is, in some respect, more then murder, Adultery, Stealing, &c. it's included in the first and great Commandment.
1. It's a Command of the first Table, and so the breach of it is, in some respect, more then murther, Adultery, Stealing, &c. it's included in the first and great Commandement.
2. Amongst all the commands of the first Table, yea all the commands, this religious observance of the Sabbath, is most forcibly pressed with more reasons, and with more full and particular explication: Because 1. All the commands hang some way on this; and obedience is ordinarily given to them with the same readiness, as this day is employed in Gods Service. 2. It keepeth life, as it were, in all the rest, and when men are could in this, so are they in all the rest. 3. This trieth men in their love to God best: If indeed his company and service be more delighted in, then the World: And is a notable indication of the frame of the soul; it maketh proof both of their state and frame, as men are usually and habitually on the Sabbath, so in effect are they, as to these.
2. Amongst all the commands of the first Table, yea all the commands, this religious observance of the Sabbath, is most forcibly pressed vvith more reasons, and vvith more full and particular explication: Because 1. All the commands hang some vvay on this; and obedience is ordinarily given to them vvith the same readiness, as this day is employed in Gods Service. 2. It keepeth life, as it vvere, in all the rest, and vvhen men are could in this, so are they in all the rest. 3. This tryeth men in their love to God best: If indeed his company and service be more delighted in, then the World: And is a notable indication of the frame of the soul; it maketh proof both of their state and frame, as men are usually and habitually on the Sabbath, so in effect are they, as to these.