A37049:1320
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.
4. As to the manner, it would be qualified thus, 1. That it be in obedience to God, serving him in some measure in that Calling or Trade, as well as in Prayer; and acknowledging him in the particulars of our gain: 2. That it be by faith on him, waiting, as was just now said, for the blessing from ⟨p. 416⟩him, Psal. 127.1. 3. That it be by a Christian way in every thing, submitting to him when a cross cometh, being without peremptoriness or anxiety, being quiet in praying, as Matth. 6. but not thoughtful: 4. That it be by trysting and ordering our care for our estate in the world, so as it may be most consistent with promoving our edification, and we not entangled with the affairs of this life, as it is 2 Tim. 2.4. nor so hedged up and straitened with them, as to have no time for other things more necessary: In sum, our manner would be such as the heart may be kept in a good frame for praying, praising, keeping communion with God, and even for dying in the midst of our endeavours of that kind, Luke 21.34. otherwise we may be surfeited, even in cares, about lawful things, and made also indisposed for spiritual duties, as a man is by gluttony and drunkenness.
4. As to the manner, it would be qualified thus, 1. That it be in obedience to God, serving him in some measure in that Calling or Trade, as well as in Prayer; and acknowledging him in the particulars of our gain: 2. That it be by faith on him, waiting, as was just now said, for the blessing from ⟨p. 416⟩him, Psal. 127.1. 3. That it be by a Christian way in every thing, submitting to him when a cross cometh, being without peremptoriness or anxiety, being quiet in praying, as Matth. 6. but not thoughtful: 4. That it be by trysting and ordering our care for our estate in the world, so as it may be most consistent with promoving our edification, and we not intangled with the affairs of this life, as it is