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 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.

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 cryed up the Temple of the Lord, the Covenant b •twixt him and them, and their external relation to him, I •r. 7.4. &c.

The eighth is any gift of God which he hath bestowed on men, such as Beauty, Strength, Wit, Learning, when men who have them lay too much weight on them, or think too much of them; yea Grace it self, the sense of God's love, and inward peace, may be put in Christ's room, and more sought for sometimes than Christ himself: Now when these are rested on, delighted in, and he slighted, or when they are missed, and he not delighted in, then they are Idols.