For helps to understand the commands of the second Table, we may consider these four Scriptures, which will hold out so many rules for that end: The 1. and principal one is Mat. 22.39. Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self, which showeth that there should be a warmness of affection in us to our neighbour opposite to hatred (Levit. 19.17, 18.) revenge, malice, inward grudging; and no doubt this warmness of love, making a man measure his duty to others by the love he hath to himself, will notably help to understand and observe all the duties of the second Table. The 2. i • Mat 7.12 Therefore all things, whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, which is a rule of general equity and is opposite to partiality and self-love, which undermineth all the duties of the second Table; and this is of a general and universal extent, ⟨p. 312⟩to all persons and things, such as buying and selling, to duties betwixt man and wife, neighbour and neighbour, Master and Servant, &c. The 3. is Philip. 2.4. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others, a notable effect of love, not only to wish well to our neighbours, but to seek and procure their good, and it is opposite to selfishness and regardlessness of the good of others, if we be well our selves. The 4. is Rom. 12.10. Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another, be kindly to, and manifest your esteem of, your Neighbour, not in a complementing way, but really and heartily, which by James is called the fulfilling of the Law, and by the Apostle John, the old and new commandment, wherein there is more Religion then many are aware of, more then in knowledge, speculations and empty notions; but oh! How short are we in these more common duties, that lye, as it were, among our feet? We come now to the Fifth command, which is the first of the second Table, and it containeth 1. a precept. 2. a Promise, and so it is called by the Apostle Ephes. 6.2. the first Command with promise, which must be upon one of these grounds, either i. because it is the first command that hath a particular promise, that promise in the Second command being general and applicable (as it is actually applied there) to all the commands, or 2, because this is the first command of the second Table;
For helps to understand the commands of the second Table, we may consider these four Scriptures, which will hold out so many rules for that end: The 1. and principal one is Mat. 22.39. Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self, which sheweth that there should be a warmness of affection in us to our neighbour opposite to hatred (Levit. 19.17, 18.) revenge, malice, inward grudging; and no doubt this warmness of love, making a man measure his duty to others by the love he hath to himself, will notably help to understand and observe all the duties of the second Table. The 2. i • Mat 7.12 Therefore all things, whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, which is a rule of general equity and is opposite to partiality and self-love, which undermineth all the duties of the second Table; and this is of a general and universal extent, ⟨p. 312⟩to all persons and things, such as buying and selling, to duties betwixt man and wife, neighbour and neighbour, Master and Servant, &c. The 3. is Philip. 2.4. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others, a notable effect of love, not only to wish well to our neighbours, but to seek and procure their good, and it is opposite to selfishness and regardlesness of the good of others, if we be well our selves. The 4. is Rom. 12.10. Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love in honour preferring one another, be kindly to, and manifest your esteem of, your Neighbour, not in a complementing way, but really and heartily, which by James is called the fulfilling of the Law, and by the Apostle John, the old and new commandement, wherein there is more Religion then many are aware of, more then in knowledg, speculations and empty notions; but oh! How short are we in these more common duties, that lye, as it were, among our feet? We come now to the Fifth command, which is the first of the second Table, and it containeth 1. a precept. 2. a Promise, and so it is called by the Apostle Ephes. 6.2. the first Command with promise, which must be upon one of these grounds, either i. because it is the first command that hath a particular promise, that promise in the Second command being general and applicable (as it is actually applyed there) to all the commands, or 2, because this is the first command of the second Table;
