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 part of whose Royal and Incommunicable Prerogative, it is (not communicate nor given out of his own hand to any dispensation, whether of Ordinances, or of Providences more smiling or more cross, abstractly from his Blessing and Grace) to teach to profit. If your Ladyship be not thus enriched, and if your Stock and Revenue be not thus bettered, I take it for granted that it is your burden, and more afflicting to you than all your other Afflictions; and that it is with-all singly aimed at by you, and diligently driven as your greatest design in the world. I could from my own particular certain knowledge and observation, long ago, and of late (having had the honour and happiness to be often in your company, and at some of the lowest ebbs of your outward prosperity) and from the knowledge of others more knowing and observing than I, say more of your rich in comes of gain and advantage, of your improvements, of the countervailings of your damage, and of the up-makings of all your losses this way, than either my fear of incurring the construction of a Flatterer with such as do not know you as I do, will permit; or your Christian modesty, sobriety, and self-denial will admit; and to undertake to say all that might truly, and without complementing (too too ordinary in Epistles Dedicatory) ⟨image 6⟩be said to this purpose, would be thought by your Ladyship as far below you to crave, or expect, as it would be above me suitably to perform.

a part of whose Royal and Incommunicable Prerogative, it is (not communicate nor given out of his own hand to any dispen•ation, whether of Ordinances, or of Providences more smiling or more cross, abstractly from his Blessing and Grace) to teach to profit. If your Ladyship be not thus inriched, and if your Stock and Revenue be not thus bettered, I take it for granted that it is your burden, and more afflicting to you than all your other Afflictions; and that it is with-all singly aimed at by you, and diligently driven as your greatest design in the world. I could from my own particular certain knowledg and observation, long agoe, and of late (having had the honour and happiness to be often in your company, and at some of the lowest ebbs of your outward prosperity) and from the knowledge of others more knowing and observing than I, say more of your rich in comes of gain and advantage, of your improvements, of the countervailings of your dammage, and of the up-makings of all your losses this way, than either my fear of incurring the construction of a Flatterer with such as do not know you as I do, will permit; or your Christian modesty, sobriety, and self-denyal will admit; and to undertake to say all that might truly, and without complementing (too too ordinary in Epistles Dedicatory)