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…

3 Ignorance natural, or proceeding from paucity of means, or less occasion to learn, though it doth not fully, yet in part excuseth: Hence it is said, they that know not the Masters will, shall be beaten with few stripes; but ••razin, and B •thsaida, and other places, having plenty of means, shall not in the least be sheltered under that excuse, Mat. 11.22, 23, 24.

4 In some things we would distinguish betwixt sinning ex ignorantia out of ignorance, and sinning ignoranter ignorantly's one may do a thing out of ignorance (as Paul persecuted the Church) that would not have done it had he known it; it was not malice but ignorance that led Paul to that sin of pers cutting, this excuseth in part; but to do a thing ignorantly, is when a man is more immediately the cause of his own ignorance, as wh •n by drunk •nn •ss, passion, hatred, malice, &c. a man is so blinded and prejudiced, that he cannot discern what is duty, and what is sin: So some of the Ph •risee were, who might have seen that Christ was God, and to be acknowledged as such, but prejudice marr •d it. Thus a sin considered in it self may be less, which b •ing considered more completely, will be found a far greater guilt; as suppose one in drunkenness swear, commit Adultery, or in passion commit Murder, the Murder or Adultery considered in themselves, as done in drunkenness, or passion, are less, than when done in soberness, or d •lib irately; y •t these sins being completely consid •red, the p arson is more guilty, because he hath Murder and Drunkenness, or Murder and Passion, both to answer for, which Drunkenness or Passion he caused to himself by his unwatchfulness, and all the effects that follow upon th se