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…

4. For finding out of the breaches of this Commandment, ye may consider the opposites to love with the whole heart, such as luke-warmness, Rev. 3.15. coldness of love, Mat. 24. •2. self-love, excessive love to Creatures, hatred of God, not as he is good, but as he is averse from sinful men, prohibiting what they love, and punishing them for committing sin; for it is impossible for men to serve two Masters, as Sin and God, but the one must be loved, and the other hated: And is there any thing more ordinary than love to sin which is evil, and hatred of God which is the great Good? which appeareth in little zeal for him, and little reverencing of him.

5 Consider what is opposite to Fear and Reverence, and there you will find much carnal security and vain confidence in it, obstinacy, stout-heartedness, little trembling at his Word, not being affected with his Judgments, rashness and irreverence in his Service, whereas there is a general fear in all our walk called for, Prov. 23.17. We ought to be in the fear of the Lord all the day long; and there is a peculiar fear called for in the Ordinances of his Worship, Eccles. 12.23. Mal. 1.6. which was commended in Levi, Mal. 2.5. On the other hand, opposite to this, is that carnal fear and anxiety, which is commonly called servile and slavish fear, and the fear of man which bringeth a snare, Prov. 29.25.