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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.
5. A good end is to be proposed, namely one of these three, God's Honour, the good of others, or our own necessary vindication in something, that so it be not taken to no purpose.
There is this difference betwixt this Command and others; in other Commands, God expresseth the highest degree of every kind of sin, to scare men from the breaches of these Commands; ⟨p. 124⟩here he mentioneth not Forswearing or Blasphemy, but taking the •ord's Name in vain▪ which is the lowest degree of that kind; that by this God may teach us what reverence we owe to Him, and of what large extent the Command is, and how careful he would have us to be, lest we should come upon the borders of any thing that seemeth to be a breach of it.
If it be asked, Why the Lord is so peremptory in urging this Command, and in pressing the thing here commanded in the very lightest?
If it be asked, Why the Lord is so peremptory in urging this Command, and in pressing the thing here commanded in the very leightest?