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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.
If we might be particular, we could show how there is no Command more pressed, more fully explained, and sorer plagued in the breach of it, then this, and set forth with more aggravating expressions, to make it so much more abominable. It wrongeth God, and the Society of men, it wrongeth others; in particular, our children and our selves, both in body, estate and name; it bringeth a blot on the soul here and hereafter, Job 31.12. Prov. 6.33. It taketh away wit and courage, yea, and even the very heart, besotting men, Hos. 4.11. compared with Prov. 6.3 •. So did it in Solomon, and therefore the man given to it is compared to an Ox and a Fool, Prov. 7. 22, 23, &c. It is compared also to the neighing of Horses, Jer. 5.8. and the hire of a whore, and the price of a dog, are put together, Deut. 33.18. The madness, folly, yea and, to say so, devilry and bewitching power of it are see • out in Jezebel. It is said to be, Ephes. 5. v. 6. A work of darkness, that bringeth Gods wrath on the children of disobedience, as it did bring it on Sodom, the Old world, and the Canaanites most signally; and seldom is there a remarkable plague and punishment brought on a Person or Land, but this sin of vileness hath a main hand in the procuring of it; and where it reigneth, it is usually, if not always, accompanied with many other gross sins, which are occasioned by it, and given way to for its sake, as drunkenness, murder, idolatry, &c.
If we might be particular, we could shew how there is no Command more pressed, more fully explained, and sorer plagued in the breach of it, then this, and set forth with more aggravating expressions, to make it so much more abominable. It wrongeth God, and the Society of men, it wrongeth others; in particular, our children and our selves, both in body, estate and name; it bringeth a blot on the soul here and hereafter,