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…

The Third Commandment. Exod. 20. v. 7. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him Guiltless that taketh his Name in vain.

This Command the Lord presseth with a Threatening, that it may be known that he is in earnest, and will reckon with men for the breaches of it: The scope of it, is, To have the Name of the Lord Sanctified, Hallowed, and had in reverence by all his people, and so every thing eschewed that may be dishonourable to that Holy Name, and which may make Him, as it were, contemptible; this scope is clear from Levit. 22. v. 32. where having forbidden the profaning of his Name, he addeth this positive precept, as opposite thereto; But I' will be Hallowed among the Children of Israel; So then, its that he himself may be Hallowed and had in reverence amongst them, as Psal. 89.7. and 111.9 And so this Command is much more extensive then at first view it appeareth; the scope thereof, being to keep the heart in a holy awe and reverence of God, and so in a holy way of using, and rev •rend way of going about every thing which concerneth Him.

THis Command the Lord presseth with a Threatning, that it may be known that he is in earnest, and will reckon with men for the breaches of it: The scope of it, is, To have the Name of the Lord Sanctified, Hallowed, and had in reverence by all his people, and so every thing eschewed that may be dishonourable to that Holy Name, and which may make Him, as it were, contemptible; this scope is clear from