A37049:369
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…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3dly. This Command is broken by corrupting of Gods worship, as when the Word is mis-interpreted and mis-applied, Prayers are used in a strange Tongue, the Word is mixed with Errors, and the Church, both left without Discipline and abused in civil things, which tendeth to the corrupting of Gods Service; unqualified-men put into the Ministry and kept in i •, ⟨p. 72⟩when Sacraments are rested on and worshipped, even as the Brazen Serpent was abused, and the Temple, though appointed by God at first for good ends, was afterward rested on and Idolized.
3dly. This Command is broken by corrupting of Gods worship, as when the Word is mis-interpreted and mis-applyed, Prayers are used in a strange Tongue, the Word is mixed with Errours, and the Church, both left without Discipline and abused in civil things, which tendeth to the corrupting of Gods Service; unqualified-men put into the Ministry and kept in i •, ⟨p. 72⟩when Sacraments are rested on and worshipped, even as the Brazen Serpent was abused, and the Temple, though appointed by God at first for good ends, was afterward rested on and Idolized.
Again, this Command is practically broken four ways: First by gross profanity and neglect of the practice of known duties of worship; this way, are guilty all profane Contemners of Sacraments, Word, Discipline, &c. All Neglecters of them when they may have them: and all these that set not themselves to go rightly about them, in secret, in Families or in Public; and wh •re many opportunities of Gospel Ordinances are, this sin is the more frequent; and so all Atheists that contemn Religion, and these that would only serve God with a good heart and intention▪ as they pretend, without any outward worship, are condemned here; and also those, who for fear or advantage give not testimony to the Truth and Ordinances of Christ, when such a testimony is called for.