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…

6 Look after the breaches of this Commandment, by considering what is contrary to the obedience we owe to him as God, ⟨p. 49⟩and our God: Now internal and external obedience may both be comprehended in this, every man ought wholly to give away himself, and the use of all his faculties and members, for the Glory of God, and to him only, and to none other: And this requireth a practise that is complete, both as to the inward bent of the will and heart, and also as to all the external parts th •reof, which being seriously pondered, O! how often will we find this Commandment broken? as the particular comparing of our life with the Word, and the explication of the rest of the Commandments, may easily clear and discover.

6 Look after the breaches of this Commandment, by considering what is contrary to the obedience we owe to him as God, ⟨p. 49⟩and our God: Now internal and external obedience may both be comprehended in this, every man ought wholly to give away himself, and the use of all his faculties and members, for the Glory of God, and to him only, and to none other: And this requireth a practise that is compleat, both as to the inward bent of the will and heart, and also as to all the external parts th •reof, which being seriously pondored, O! how often will we find this Commandment broken? as the particular comparing of our life with the Word, and the explication of the rest of the Commandments, may easily clear and discover.

7 The sin of impatience, which is opposite to that patience and submission we owe to God in his ways and Dispensations, is one of the special br •aches of this Commandment: it is very broad, and doth many ways discover it self: As 1. In fretting at Events which befall us. 2. In not submitting cheerfully to God's way with us, but repining against it. 3. In wishing things had fallen out otherwise than God hath disposed. 4. In limiting God, and prescribing to him, thinking that things might have been better otherwise. 5. In not behaving himself thankfully for what he doth, even when his Dispensations are cross and afflicting.