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…

are these fancies, fictions, and forgeries? are these fables cunningly devised and told by the Non-Conformists-Preachers? Did the Apostle thunder the great Anathema Maranatha, against men for their not having a mere Romantic and fancied love to the Lord Jesus? (the execution of which dreadful doom will be a solid proof of its reality, and a sad reproof for denying it to be so). Dare the most proud, petulant, perverse, and prodigiously-profane prater, pretending but to the name of a Christian, say it? If these most real love Communications and intercourses betwixt the Lord Christ and the believing Soul, be but Romances; then the whole ⟨image 11⟩Bible (whereof these make so considerable and so comfortable a part) may be reckoned a Romance (which be like this Romantic Divine will not so much demur making small account thereof, a •dacious •y alleging the English Bible to be a Book in some places erroneous, in some scarce sense and of dangerous consequences; loath would he be to deal so by Grand Cyrus, Cleopatra, and his other darling Romances;) if there be no real but romantic and feigned love betwixt Christ and the Christian, then no real Christianity, no real Christ (whom this new Doctor dreadfully debas •th under the poorly palliated pretext of exalting him, affirming, that his unparalleled civility, and the obligingness of his deportment, seems to be almost as high an evidence of the Truth and Divinity of his Doctrine, as his unparalleled miracles were, otherwise he would be a base and prof •igat Impostor; what would this young Divine (for old Divines, and even great Calvin by name, amongst the rest, he despiseth as a company of silly Systematics) have said and thought of the Divinity of the person and Doctrine of blessed Jesus, if when on earth he had more frequently (as he might and probably would have done under the same circumstances) spoke and dealt so roughly and roundly as he did when he called Herod a Fox, and scourged the buyers and sellers out of the Temple, and had seemed to be as uncivil and of as little obliging a Deportment as his harbinger, John Baptist; he would be like have doubted of his Divinity, and deemed him but a base Impostor, if not peremptorily pronounced that he had a Devil;) No real Redemption, no real Redeemer; no real misery, no real mercy; no real Heaven, no real Hell (but ah!