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…

5 Quest. If it be asked how, and in what manner, are we to pursue or seek our own honour? Answ. See what the Scripture saith, 1 Sam. 2.30. Them that honour me I will honour: And first the honouring of God is praise-worthy and honourable in it self; Gold hath not more its lustre, a Ruby or Diamond its beauty, nor the sun its light and glory, then godliness and ⟨p. 329⟩virtue, whereby God is honoured, are radiant to their own praise. 2. If after by reason of human infirmity, and other disadvantages, this radiancy be obscured, or through mens ignorance, folly or malignity, this worthiness not observed or not esteemed, the Lord undertakes for the former, and vindicates from the latter, telling us plainly, them that honour me, I will honour, and hence it is, that we so often find in Scripture, honour attributed to those things that are so low and mean in the eyes of men, as 1. To taking with Instruction, Prov. 3.16 2. To yielding to Correction, even when unjust, 1 Pet. 2.20. 3. To Submission to parents, as in this command. 4. To humility and to passing of wrongs, and ceasing from strife, Prov. 20.3. In a word therefore the high-path way to honour, is by humility, the fear of the Lord, obedience, submission and selfdenyedness: Whereby the Lord, as it were, to make honour the more honourable, will have it rather to be his pure gift, then either our study or purchase.

5 Quest. If it be asked how, and in what manner, are we to pursue or seek our own honour? Answ. See what the Scripture saith, 1 Sam. 2.30. Them that honour me I will honour: And first the honouring of God is praise-worthy and honourable in it self; Gold hath not more its lustre, a Rubie or Diamond its beauty, nor the sun its light and glory, then godliness and ⟨p. 329⟩vertue, whereby God is honoured, are radiant to their own praise. 2. If after by reason of human infirmity, and other disadvantages, this radiancy be obscured, or through mens ignorance, folly or malignity, this worthiness not observed or not esteemed, the Lord undertakes for the former, and vindicates from the latter, telling us plainly, them that honour me, I will honour, and hence it is, that we so often find in Scripture, honour attributed to those things that are so low and mean in the eyes of men, as 1. To taking with Instruction,