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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.
This Commandment, as all the rest, hath a positive part requiring something, and a negative part prohibiting something: We shall, in the first place▪ speak to what is required here, and we take it up in these three things.
1 And first it requireth the right knowledge of God; for there can be no true worship given to him, there can be no right thought or conception of him, or faith in him, till he be known: He must be known to be one God in Essence, Deut. 6.4. and three Persons, 1 John 5.7. He must be known in his Attributes and Essential Properties, Infiniteness, Immenseness, Unchangeableness, ⟨p. 29⟩Eternity, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Wisdom, Goodness, Justice, and Faithfulness: He must also be known in his special works, whereby his Sovereignty and Majesty appeareth, as his works of Creation, Providence, Redemption, and what concerneth it; as the Covenant of Grace, and its terms; the Mediator, and his Offices: no service or worship can be offered to God, nor can we have any ground of Faith in him, without some measure of distinct knowledge of these.
1 And first it requireth the right knowledge of God; for there can be no true worship given to him, there can be no right thought or conception of him, or faith in him, till he be known: He must be known to be one God in Essence, Deut. 6.4. and three Persons, 1 John 5.7. He must be known in his Attributes and Essential Properties, Infiniteness, Immenseness, Unchangeableness, ⟨p. 29⟩Eternity, Omnipotene, Omniscience, Wisdom, Goodness, Justice, and Faithfulness: He must also be known in his special works, whereby his Soveraignty and Majesty appeareth, as his works of Creation, Providence, Redemption, and what concerneth it; as the Covenant of Grace, and its terms; the Mediator, and his Offices: no service or worship can be offered to God, nor can we have any ground of Faith in him, without some measure of distinct knowledge of these.