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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.
The fourth is Men of Parts, &c. who have done or may do some considerable good or evil to one, or have something in them eminent beyond others: These oft-times, in regard of the fear, love, or trust men place in them, are made great Idols.
The fifth is Lawful Contentments, as Houses, Wives, Children, unto which men are often too much addicted, and with which they are often too much taken up, even sometimes with that which is in it s •lf very little, and so they prove their Idols.
A sixth is Self-righteousness, mens prayers, their repentance, blameless walking, &c. these may get, and often get more of their confidence, and weight of their Eternal Peace, than they should: So the Jews laid the great stress and weight of their Salvation upon this Idol, Rom. 10.3.
The seventh may be outward Ordinanc •s in purity, external forms, and profession of Religion, when men rest upon these, and press not after the Power as the Jews who cried up the Temple of the Lord, the Covenant b twixt him and them, and their external relation to him, I r. 7.4. &c.