A37049:511
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.
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?
Answ.
1. That he may in this set out his own Greatness, and work a fear and reverence of him in the hearts of his people; therefore will he have them reverently using that which concerneth him, that the due distance betwixt God that is in Heaven, and Creatures that are on Earth, may be imprinted on us, and entertained by us, Eccles. 5.1, 2, 3. Lev. 22.31, 32. Psal. 89.9.