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 Royal Law, binding us to the Obedience of God our King; the Law which Jesus Christ came not to destroy but to full •il, whereof he is the end for Righteousness to every one that believeth; which doth as a School-master lead to Him (by discovering the holy nature and will of God, and mens duty to walk conformly to it, by convincing of the most sinful pollution of our nature, heart, and life, of universal disconformity to it, and innumerable transgressions of it, of the obligation to the wrath and curse of God because of the s •me, of utter inability to keep it and to help our selves out of this sinful and wrathful estate; by humbling under the conviction and sense of both, by putting-on to the Renunciation of self-righteousness or righteousness according to this Law; And finally by convincing of the absolute and indispensable necessity of an other righteousness, and so of this imputed righteousness); the law that is so very necessary to all men in common, and to every Regenerate and unregenerate man in particular; from which, ere one jot or title can pass unfulfilled, Heaven and Earth must pass; and which the Prince of Pastors, infinitely skilful to pitch pertinent subjects of Preaching, amongst many others made choice of, to be a main subject of that solemn Sermon of his on the Mount; wherein he did not, as many would have expected, soar aloft in abstruse contemplations, but graciously stooped and condescended to our capacity for catching of us, by a plain familiar and practical exposition of the Commands (as indeed Religion lieth not in high-flown notions and curious speculations, nor in great swellings of words, but in the single and sedulous practise of these things that are generally looked on as more low and common, as the great art of Preaching lieth in the powerful pressing thereof) insinuating of how much moment the right understanding of them is, and how much Religion lieth in the serious study of suitable obedience thereto, not in order to justification, but for glorifying God, who justifieth freely by his grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus; without which Obedience or holiness no man shall see the Lord. And if the Treatise bear but any tolerable proportion to such a Text and Theme, it cannot but have its own excellency;

the Royal Law, binding us to the Obedience of God our King; the Law which Jesus Christ came not to destroy but to ful •il, whereof he is the end for Righteousness to every one that believeth; which doth as a School-master lead to Him (by discovering the holy nature and will of God, and mens duty to walk conformly to it, by convincing of the most sinful pollution of our nature, heart, and life, of universal disconformity to it, and innumerable transgressions of it, of the obligation to the wrath and curse of God because of the s me, of utter inability to keep it and to help our selves out of this sinful and wrathful estate; by humbling under the conviction and sense of both, by putting-on to the Renunciation of self-righteousness or righteousness according to this Law; And finally by convincing of the absolute and indispensable necessity of an other righteousness, and so of this imputed righteousness); the law that is so very necessary to all men in common, and to every Regenerate and unregenerate man in particular; from which, ere one jote or title can pass unfulfilled, Heaven and Earth must pass; and which the Prince of Pastors, infinitely skilful to pitch pertinent subjects of Preaching, amongst many others made choice of, to be a main subject of that solemn Sermon of his on the Mount; wherein he did not, as many would have expected, soar alost in abstruse contemplations, but graciously stooped and condescended to our capacity for catching of us, by a plain familiar and practical exposition of the Commands (as indeed Religion lyeth not in high-flown notions and curious speculations, nor in great swellings of words, but in the single and sedulous practise of these things that are generally looked on as more low and common, as the great art of Preaching lyeth in the powerful pressing thereof) insinuating of how much moment the right understanding of them is, and how much Religion lyeth in the serious study of suitable obedience thereto, not in order to justification, but for glorifying God, who justifieth freely by his grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus; without which Obedience or holiness no man shall see the Lord. And if the Treatise bear but any tolerable proportion to such a Text and Theam, it cannot but have its own excellency;