A37049:232
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.
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.
4 When they pass under a lawful name, as when Pride goeth under the name of Honesty, Anxiety under the name of Lawful Care, &c. then they are hardly discovered.