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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…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 Any affirmative Precept binds to present practice, when the duty r squired tends to God • glory, unto which every thing should be done (as 1 Cor. •0.31.) and when the omission of the duty may disho •our her •.
1 Any affirmative Precept binds to present practice, when the duty r •quired tends to God • glory, unto which every thing should be done (as 1 Cor. •0.31.) and when the omission of the duty may disho •our hir •.
2 When it tends to others edification, and omitting will some way stumbl • and offend.
3 When some speci •l Providences meet and concur, to give opportunity for such a duty; as for instance, the giving of Alms when we h •ve it, and some indigent person offers, whose necessity calls for it, Gal. •.10. So when secrecy for prayer is offered, (and no other more necessary duty at that time is called for) which we are to watch unto, C •l. •.2. or when we meet with some special occasion or Dispensation, pointing out to us this or that as a duty called for, such a Providence invites us to the practice of that duty: for though Providences will not make these things to become duties which are not duties, yet they will serve to time and circumstantiate duties that lye on us, by virtue of affirmative Prec opts.