A37049:592
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.
2. There are Obtestations which are serious and weighty entreaties and beseechings in the Name of God, and for Christ's sake that one may do or forbear such a thing, as when Paul beseecheth ⟨p. 142⟩the Romans and Philippians by the mercies of God, Rom. 12. Phil. 2.1, 2. and Abigail interposeth seriously with David: this is most properly done by Inferiors, Subjects, Children, &c. to their Superiors; and hath in it also a more implicit threatening if such a thing be slighted, as in Abigails words to David, 1 Sam. 25. is clear.
2. There are Obtestations which are serious and weighty intreaties and beseechings in the Name of God, and for Christ's sake that one may do or forbear such a thing, as when Paul beseecheth ⟨p. 142⟩the Romans and Philippians by the mercies of God, Rom. 12. Phil. 2.1, 2. and Abigail interposeth seriously with David: this is most properly done by Inferiours, Subjects, Children, &c. to their Superiours; and hath in it also a more implicite threatning if such a thing be slighted, as in Abigails words to David, 1 Sam. 25. is clear.
3. There are Attestations whereby one is seriously put to it to tell some truth, or to bear witness of some truth asserted by another; thus Joshua attested Achan.