A37049:1293
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.
Again, this inordinateness we say is when either our Neighbours estate, or our own, is wronged; his may be wronged when ours is not advantaged; as by destroying, firing, and the like, out of hatred and malice; yea, it may be wronged by our negligence, when possibly he and our selves are both wronged, yet this is condemned in Scripture; and Exod. 22.5. & sequent. the Lord provideth Laws anent it. It may be also in reference to the profiting our selves or our neighbour, or bettering of our own estate or his, there is no doubt inordinateness in getting, keeping, and using that which belongs to us or to our neighbour, as when we get it without right, or its due price by another's folly or negligence, &c.
Again, this inordinateness we say is when either our Neighbours estate, or our own, is wronged; his may be wronged when ours is not advantaged; as by destroying, firing, and the like, out of hatred and malice; yea, it may be wronged by our negligence, when possibly he and our selves are both wronged, yet this is condemned in Scripture; and Exod. 22.5. & sequent. the Lord provideth Laws anent it. It may be also in reference to the profiting our selves or our neighbour, or bettering of our own estate or his, there is no doubt inordinateness in getting, keeping, and using that which belongs to us or to our neighbour, as when we get it without right, or its due price by anothers folly or negligence, &c.
To proceed a little, we shall consider the sin forbidden in this Command, as drawn to these three forementioned heads, rapina, furtum, turpe luerum.
Rapine includeth violence of all sorts, both by land, and that either by more petty parties, as robbers, plunderers, &c. or such as are more strong and able to carry their point, as Conquerors, Generals of Armies, &c. meddling with that which is not theirs, which is robbery in the Lords account,