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…

1 When our love to Creatures drowneth our love to God, and maketh us to cast off duties we owe to him, as in Demas. 2. When in part it marreth us in the performance of duties to God, as in Eli. 3. When it so taketh us up in our practise throughout the day, that we give not necessary time to the Worship of God, in praying, reading, hearing, &c. 4. When it indisposeth for these; so that when we are praying or hearing, the heart is carried away after Creatures, and the mind is taken up with some other thing than God, as Ezekiel 33.31. 5. When they too much, and very unnecessarily haunt the heart in meditation, or when we lye down or rise, and at such times when our thinking on such employments contributeth not to the furtherance of them, it showeth that they have too much of the heart when they possess it always, and when it is seldom taken up actually with better things, but these steal in easily and at all times.

1 When our love to Creatures drowneth our love to God, and maketh us to cast off duties we owe to him, as in Demas. 2. When in part it marreth us in the performance of duties to God, as in Eli. 3. When it so taketh us up in our practise throughout the day, that we give not necessary time to the Worship of God, in praying, reading, hearing, &c. 4. When it indisposeth for these; so that when we are praying or hearing, the heart is carried away after Creatures, and the mind is taken up with some other thing than God, as Ezekiel 33.31. 5. When they too much, and very unnecessarily haunt the heart in meditation, or when we lye down or rise, and at such times when our thinking on such imployments contributeth not to the furtherance of them, it sheweth that they have too much of the heart when they possess it always, and when it is seldom taken up actually with better things, but these steal in easily and at all times.

It may appear now 1. How common this sin of Idolatry is. 2. How great guilt and hazard men are lying under thereby, because 1. Few are convinced of it. 2. Many years Idolatry lieth together upon the Consciences of many. 3. There is little repentance for it, though many ways one may insensibly slide into it.