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…

So then we conceive this Command, as to its positive part, doth 1. Require love to our Neighbour, and complacency in his prosperous condition, and all such motions as are inconsistent with it, are here forbidden, though they never come to act, and being such as we would not have any others entertaining towards us. 2. Contentment, so that discontent, discouragement, fainting heaviness, anxiety, disquietness and not resting satisfied with our own lot, which is forbidden Heb. 13.5. are condemned here. 3. A holy frame of heart, a delight in the Law of God, and conformity to it, Rom. 7.22. Hence these motions are counted opposite to it which were in Paul (although he wrestled against them, as was said) and are the Imaginations of mens hearts, but the serenity and tranquil composure of the heart having every thing subject and subordinate to the Law of God, is called for here. 4. It requireth complete conformity to the Law of God, and exact and perfect love to, and delight in him. Thus this Command is broken, when there is any stirring of heart inconsistent with perfect love to him and his Law: But obedience is given to it when we put off the old man, and put on the new man created after God, &c. Col. 3.9, 10. and attain unto a stayed, composed, established, and fixed heart, so much commended in Scripture. For the difference of this Command from the former Commands, is not in the object, but in the act lust, for determinate lust, for instance, looketh to the seventh Command, but here a sort of vaging unsettledness in the thought that cannot be called adultery, as not partaking of that name, yet really is Lust, is forbidden, and so also vain wanderings upon Ideas and notions come in here under the name of Lust, and are sinful, being inconsistent with a composed frame of heart.

So then we conceive this Command, as to its positive part, doth 1. Require love to our Neighbour, and complacency in his prosperous condition, and all such motions as are inconsistent with it, are here forbidden, though they never come to act, and being such as we would not have any others entertaining towards us. 2. Contentment, so that discontent, discouragement, fainting heaviness, anxiety, disquietness and not resting satisfied with our own lot, which is forbidden