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…

so that in all his dispensations towards them, his absolute Dominion ⟨image 4⟩and his good Will shall be commensurable, and of equal extent, the one of them never to be stretched one hairs▪ breadth beyond the other; and even in the most dark, involved, intricate, abstruse, and mysterious providences wherein they can read and take up least of his mind; and wherein he (seeming to walk either in the greatest absoluteness of his Dominion, or in the sharpest severity of his Justice) refuseth to give a particular account of his matters and motions, hath wonde fully stooped and condescended to give this general, sweetly-satisfactory Account, That they shall work for good, even their spiritual good and profit, The purging of sin, and their further participation of his Holiness: O! that all the graciously sincere Lovers of God, and the effectually called according to his purpose, might from the lively Faith of this, be persuaded and prevailed with, to set themselves down at the Receipt of these Customs from the many Crosses and Afflictions that come their way, with a fixed resolution to suffer none of them to pass without paying the Custom imposed by the King; The faithful, diligent, close, and constant following of this employment would inspeakably enrich, and more than make up all their Losses, infinitely beyond what gathering in the Customs of the rarest and richest Commodities of both the Ind •es could possibly do, were they all engrossed and monopolized to that most honourable Society of the Godly; and would help them to bear out a great spiritual rank and port, suitable to the state of the King, and as it becometh them that are privileged to be Collectors of such Customs under Him.

so that in all his dispensations towards them, his absolute Dominion ⟨image 4⟩and his good Will shall be commensurable, and of equal extent, the one of them never to be stretched one hairs▪ breadth beyond the other; and even in the most dark, involved, intricate, obstruse, and mysterious providences wherein they can read and take up least of his mind; and wherein he (seeming to walk either in the greatest absoluteness of his Dominion, or in the sharpest severity of his Justice) refuseth to give a particular account of his matters and motions, hath wonde fully stooped and condescended to give this general, sweetly-satisfactory Account, That they shall work for good, even their spiritual good and profit, The purging of sin, and their further participation of his Holiness: O! that all the gradiously sincere Lovers of God, and the effectually called according to his purpose, might from the lively Faith of this, be perswaded and prevailed with, to set themselves down at the Receit of these Customs from the many Crosses and Afflictions that come their way, with a fixed resolution to suffer none of them to pass without paying the Custom imposed by the King; The faithful, diligent, close, and constant following of this imployment would inspeakably inrich, and more than make up all their Losses, infinitly beyond what gathering in the Customs of the rarest and richest Commodities of both the Ind es could possibly do, were they all ingrossed and monopolized to that most honourable Society of the Godly; and would help them to bear out a great spiritual rank and port, sutable to the state of the King, and as it becometh them that are priviledged to be Collectors of such Customs under Him.