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…

We may be guilty of the breach of this Command in reference to our selves by omissions as well as by commissions, as when things needful for entertainment and health of the body are, either designedly, or with an excessive misregard to health and life, omitted.

We may further fall into the breach of this Command in reference to our selves, either directly, as purposing and intending hurt to our own body, or indirectly, by casting our selves in unnecessary seeming dangers, by wilful or careless overusing of known unwholesome food, by excessive and immoderate toil, by spending and wasting the body with unchastness, by drunkenness and gluttony (whereby many more are destroyed then with the Sword, according to the common saying, plures gulâ quàm gladio pereunt) and many other ways.

We may further fall into the breach of this Command in reference to our selves, either directly, as purposing and intending hurt to our own bodie, or indirectly, by casting our selves in unnecessary seeming dangers, by wilful or careless overusing of known unwholesome food, by excessive and immoderate toyl, by spending and wasting the body with unchastness, by drunkenness and gluttony (vvhereby many more are destroyed then with the Sword, according to the common saying, plures gulâ quàm gladio pereunt) and many other vvays.

If we consider this command with respect to others, we may conceive it in reference to a threefold life, which we should endeavour to preserve and promote in them, in any one of which a commission or omission will make a breach thereof.

If we consider this command vvith respect to others, vve may conceive it in reference to a threefold life, which vve should endeavour to preserve and promote in them, in any one of which a commission or omission will make a breach thereof.