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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.
1. An Idol is then most subtle, when it lurketh in the heart, and seateth it self principally in mens mind, aim, and inward contentment, and they inwardly ascribe too much to such a thing, and yet, it may be, in their external practise, there is not much to discover this.
1. An Idol is then most subtil, when it lurketh in the heart, and seateth it self principally in mens mind, aim, and inward contentment, and they inwardly ascribe too much to such a thing, and yet, it may be, in their external practise, there is not much to discover this.
2 Then are Idols most subtle, when they lye in such things to which some what of fear, love, delight, &c. is allowable, as in lawful things, which may in some measure be lawfully loved, feared, and sought for.
2 Then are Idols most subtil, when they lye in such things to which some what of fear, love, delight, &c. is allowable, as in lawful things, which may in some measure be lawfully loved, feared, and sought for.
3 When they are in negatives, as in Omissions, Ease, &c. then they are more subtle than when they lye in something men positively seek after, or in the Commission of something forbidden.
3 When they are in negatives, as in Omissions, Ease, &c. then they are more subtil than when they lye in something men positively seek after, or in the Commission of something forbidden.