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…

He that searcheth Jerusalem with Candles, hath by putting the Candle of the True Meaning, of the Law of the Lord into his Hand, made him go down and search into the very Inward Parts of the Belly, and Bowels, of the Corruption of our Nature, and to Ransack the most Retired Corners of the Close Cabinet of the Deep Deceitfulness, and Desperate Wickedness, that is lodged and locked up in our Hearts: He hath given to him as it were, the end of the Clew of Search, whereby he hath followed and found us out, in those many Turnings, and Traversings, Windings and Wanderings, of the Labyrinth of this great Mystery of Iniquity, that worketh in us. He hath therein also, marvellously helped him with Exquisite Skill, as it were Anatomically to dissect, even to some of the very smallest Capillar Veins; a great part of the Vast Body, of the many and various Duties succinctly summed up in these Ten Words, of this Holy Law: A Transumpt and Double whereof, was as Vively Written, and deeply engraven upon the fleshly tables of the Author's heart, and on the whole of his Visible Deportment, as readily hath been on many of the Sinful Sons of Adam. Not to detain thee long; Let me for provoking, and persuading, to consider what the Blest Author, being now dead, yet speaketh in this Choice Treatise (and more especially to the Inhabitants of Glasgow, now the Second time) only ⟨image 12⟩say, that amongst many other distempers of this declined and degenered Generation, there is a great itching after some new and more notional, and a loathing of old and more solid and substantial things in Religion; whereof this is a Demonstration, that though there be very few subjects more necessary and useful than what is treated of here, yet there is almost none more generally slighted, as being a very common and ordinary subject, and but the Ten Commands sitter to be read and got by rote by Children, or at best to be studied by rude and ignorant beginners, by Apprentices and Christians of the lowest form in Christ's School, then by Professors of greater knowledge and longer standing, who suppose themselves, and are it may be supposed by others, to have passed their Apprenticeship, to be grown Deacons in the Trade of Religion, and to have commenced masters of A •t therein;

He that searcheth Jersualem with Candles, hath by putting the Candle of the True Meaning, of the Law of the Lord into his Hand, made him go down and search into the very Inward Parts of the Belly, and Bowels, of the Corruption of our Nature, and to Ransack the most Retired Corners of the Closse Cabinet of the Deep Deceitfulness, and Desperate Wickedness, that is lodged and locked up in our Hearts: He hath given to him as it were, the end of the Clew of Search, whereby he hath followed and found us out, in those many Turnings, and Traversings, Windings and Wandrings, of the Labyrinth of this great Mystery of Iniquity, that worketh in us. He hath therein also, marvellously helped him with Exquisite Skill, as it were Anatomically to dissect, even to some of the very smallest Capillar Veins; a great part of the Vast Body, of the many and various Duties succinctly summed up in these Ten Words, of this Holy Law: A Transumpt and Dowble whereof, was as Vively Written, and deeply ingraven upon the fleshly tables of the Author's heart, and on the whole of his Visible Deportment, as readily hath been on many of the Sinful Sons of Adam. Not to detain thee long; Let me for provoking, and perswading, to consider what the Blest Author, being now dead, yet speaketh in this Choyse Treatise (and more especially to the Inhabitants of Glasgow, now the Second time) only