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…

1. Under this Command we take in habitual Lust, even as it disposeth and inclineth to ill in the root of it, though not principally, yet consequently; because its streams and branches that do flow from, and clear this to be the fountain and root, are primarily understood; and the reasons why it must be taken in here, are 1. Because habitual Lust in the root is sin (for so it conceiveth sin, James 1.14, 15.) and if it be sin, it must be against some of these Commands, which are the substance and matter of the Covenant of Works, which prescribeth all duty, and forbiddeth all sin. 2. If this Law require absolute purity, then that inclination must be condemned by it, but it requireth absolute purity and exact holiness, even according to Gods Image; therefore that inclination inconsistent with it must be condemned here, seeing in the other Commandments, acts that are resolved and fully consented to in the heart, are forbidden. 3. If the rise of this habitual Lust was by this Command condemned and forbidden to Adam, in looking to the fruit, and in entertaining that motion, or the indisposing of himself by it to walk with God; or if this Command did forbid him his f •ll, and the bringing upon himself that Lust; and when it was in him if it was a breach of this Command, then it is so to us also; but certainly Adam was enjoined by this ⟨p. 453⟩Command to preserve himself free of the root of such •••ls, if the fruits themselves be evil, which is undeniable. 4. If this ill be [Greek or Hebrew], or a transgression of, or disconformity to the Law, then it must belong to some Command reductively at least; but the former is certain, and it cannot so properly be reduced to any other Command as to th •s, therefore it is here condemned as sin. 5. If it lieth in th • heart, and giveth the first sinful rise to actual sins, then it must be forbidden in this Command (for as we now consider it, it preventeth determination, and may be where actual sin is not) but the former is truth, that i • conceiveth other actual sins as the mother of them (as it is James 1.15