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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.
3 That it requireth the diligent use of all means that may help and further us in these; as Reading, Meditation, Study, &c.
4 That these things which in some respect may be given to Creatures, as love, fear, &c. yet when they are required as duties to God, they are required in a far more eminent way; so that Creatures must yield and give place when God cometh in competition with them in these; and these things which are proper to God, as resting on him, adoring of him, are to be given to no other.
5 All these things are so required, as none of them thrust out another; but that all so consist, as every duty may keep its own place, without prejudice to any other.
In the next place, we would consider the negative part of this Commandment, for the extent thereof will be best discerned by cons •dering what is forbidden therein, and how it may be broken: It is indeed the Commandment, in reference to which, beyond all the rest, almost the general ty of men think themselves most innocent; and yet upon trial it will be found, that men are most guilty of the breach thereof: We may look upon the breach of this Commandment more largely, as God is any way wronged in that which is his due; or more strictly, as it relateth to that which is more properly Idolatry.