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…

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.

Ninthly, Ease, quietness, and a mans own contentment, is oft-times a great Idol; and it is so when a man is so addicted to his case, as he cannot abide to be troubled, Thus was it with that man, Luke 12.19. Soul take thee rest: His E •se was his Idol, and he rested on it, and made it the end of all his buildings, and laying up of goods; but his riches were his Idol, as he grounded his expectation of rest upon that which he possessed: So many idle men who frame their life so as they may not be troubled, though they be no ways profitable, but spend what they have, making this the drift of all they do, that they may have an easy life, when this overswayeth them as their last end, (though otherwise, if they were not wedded to their ease, might be more ⟨p. 37⟩profitable) and often with abstaining from, and neglecting of many necessary duties, that they may eschew trouble, it is a prevailing Idol.

Ninthly, Ease, quietness, and a mans own contentment, is oft-times a great Idol; and it is so when a man is so addicted to his case, as he cannot abide to be troubled, Thus was it with that man, Luke 12.19. Soul take thee rest: His E •se was his Idol, and he rested on it, and made it the end of all his buildings, and laying up of goods; but his riches were his Idol, as he grounded his expectation of rest upon that which he possessed: So many idle men who frame their life so as they may not be troubled, though they be no ways profitable, but spend what they have, making this the drift of all they do, that they may have an easie life, when this overswayeth them as their last end, (though otherwise, if they were not wedded to their ease, might be more