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…

and yet they will make little or no conscience of loving their neighbour, or of showing mercy, as we see in the Pharisees: 5. Because it is no less necessary for Christians living together as to their Being and well-being and mutual thriving, that they do duty one of them to another with respect to the command, then that they all do their duty to him; how else can folks live well together in a Family or other Societies, if each therein do not duty to another? the neglect of this makes them as a house divided against it self, which cannot stand: 6. That ⟨p. 310⟩the Lord may have the more clear and convincing ground of challenge against such as slight these commands, and live in envy, malice, oppression, &c. for none can say he knew not these to be sins, Mic. 67. The Lord hath showed thee, O man, what is good, that thou do Justice, and love Mercy, &c. and he beginneth at the Duties of the second Table, the more to stop their mouths: If they should say, they knew not tha • they should be holy, or how to be holy in these, he had it to say, that he had told them: For these, and such like reasons, the Lord hath been so part ocular in, and hath added his Authority unto, the commands of the second Table as well as to these of the first, that we may lay the greater weight on them.

and yet they will make little or no conscience of loving their neighbour, or of shewing mercy, as we see in the Pharisees: 5. Because it is no less necessary for Christians living together as to their Being and vvell-being and mutual thriving, that they do duty one of them to another with respect to the command, then that they all do their duty to him; how else can folks live well together in a Family or other Societies, if each therein do not duty to another? the neglect of this makes them as a house divided against it self, which cannot stand: 6. That ⟨p. 310⟩the Lord may have the more clear and convincing ground of challenge against such as slight these commands, and live in envy, malice, oppression, &c. for none can say he knew not these to be sins, Mic. 67. The Lord hath shewed thee, O man, what is good, that thou do Justice, and love Mercy, &c. and he beginneth at the Duties of the second Table, the more to stop their mouths: If they should say, they knew not tha • they should be holy, or how to be holy in these, he had it to say, that he had told them: For these, and such like reasons, the Lord hath been so part cular in, and hath added his Authority unto, the commands of the second Table as well as to these of the first, that we may lay the greater weight on them.