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…

But because this Command in an especial manner looketh to public Ordinances, let us see a little more particularly how it is broken in these: 1. In respect of Preaching and Hearing▪ 2. Public Prayer. 3. Praising. 4. Sacraments. 5. Fasts; and in all these, there are faults of three sorts. 1. Some going before the performance of these duties. 2. Some following after. 3. Some going along in the performance of them.

But because this Command in an especial manner looketh to publick Ordinances, let us see a little more particularly how it is broken in these: 1. In respect of Preaching and Hearing▪ 2. Publick Prayer. 3. Praising. 4. Sacraments. 5. Fasts; and in all these, there are faults of three sorts. 1. Some going before the performance of these duties. 2. Some following after. 3. Some going along in the performance of them.

And again, 1. Some are guilty of the breach of this Command by neglecting these duties. 2. Some are guilty in the wrong manner, of going about them.

And 1. Before hearing the Word men break this Command. 1. In not Praying for the speaker. 2. In not Praying for themselves, in reference to this end, that they may profit by the Word. 3. In not setting themselves to be in a spiritual composed frame for such a work. 4. In not watchfully preventing what may divert them or distract them, or straiten their minds when they come to hear, not ordering their other affairs, so as they may not be a hinderance to them in meeting with the blessing of the Gospel. 5. In not aiming to have the right esteem of the Word. 6. In not blessing God for it, or for any good received before by it. 7 In not coming with hunger and thirst, as new born Babes, having laid aside what may hinder its, being received with desire,