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…

what coveting of, and complacency in fellowship with God the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ, while your other fellowship is made desolate? what accounting of all things, so much in account amongst men, to be but loss & dung in comparison of the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ the Lord? what growing disconformity to the World, by the renewing of your mind? what transforming into the Image of God from Glory to Glo •y, as by the Spirit of the Lord? what exemplary holiness in all manner of conversation? what postponing of all particular and self-interests to the public interest of his Glory▪ what waitings and longings for the Coming of his Kingdom? what desires and designs faithfully to serve your Generation according to His Will; and when that is done, what groanings to be unclothed and clothed upon with your House from above? and what lively longings, with sweet submissions to his Will to be dissolved, and to be with Jesus Christ, which is best of all? How much in the mean time of a Stranger's & Pilgrim's deportment with published practical plain declarations to the world that this is not your Country? but that you are in expectation of one, even a Heavenly Country, so that God is not ashamed to be called your God? finally, What practical and experimental knowledge of, and clear insight in, that notable and none-such art of making out of God, and making up in Him what is missing amongst the Creatures? a little of whom can go far, inconceivably far, to fill up much empty and void room, through the removal of many and most choice Creature-comforts? What possibly loss or want is it that cannot be made up in him? who is God all-sufficient, and in whom, what-ever is desirable and excellent amongst ⟨image 6⟩them all, is to be found in an eminently transcendent, and infinitely more excellent way; and from whom, as the inexhaustible full Fountain, and incomprehensibly vast, immense, shoreless, boundless, and bottomless Ocean of all delightful, desirable, imaginable, and possible perfections, the small drops, and little rivulets of seeming and painted perfections scattered amongst the Creatures, issue forth: O! beautiful and blest fruits of afflictions, yet not brought forth by afflictions of themselves, but by his own grace working together with, and by them;

what coveting of, and complacency in fellowship with God the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ, while your other fellowship is made desolate? what accounting of all things, so much in account amongst men, to be but loss & dung in comparison of the excellency of the knowledg of Jesus Christ the Lord? what growing disconformity to the World, by the renewing of your mind? what transforming into the Image of God from Glory to Glo y, as by the Spirit of the Lord? what examplary holiness in all manner of conversation? what postponing of all particular and self-interests to the publick interest of his Glory what waitings and longings for the Coming of his Kingdom? what desires and designs faithfully to serve your Generation according to His Will; and when that is done, what groanings to be uncloathed and cloathed upon with your House from above? and what lively longings, with sweet submissions to his Will to be dissolved, and to be with Jesus Christ, which is best of all? How much in the mean time of a Stranger's & Pilgrim's deportment with published practical plain declarations to the world that this is not your Country? but that you are in expectation of one, even a Heavenly Country, so that God is not ashamed to be called your God? finally, What practical and experimental knowledge of, and clear insight in, that notable and none-such art of making out of God, and making up in Him what is missing amongst the Creatures? a little of whom can go far, inconceivably far, to fill up much empty and voyd room, through the removal of many and most choice Creature-comforts? What possibly loss or want is it that cannot be made up in him? who is God all-sufficient, and in whom, what-ever is desirable and excellent amongst