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…

1. In giving little entertainment unto, and laying little weight upon the charges and obtestations of Ministers, which come unto you by them from this Word and Gospel; these charges of Ministers are as if an Herald gave a Charge in the Magistrates name, which bindeth as from him, and more than another message delivered in other terms; in this then, Ministers are as Heralds charging you in their Master's Name, even in the Name of the great God, and of Jesus Christ, the Prince of the Kings of the Earth.

1. In giving little entertainment unto, and laying little weight upon the charges and obtestations of Ministers, which come unto you by them from this Word and Gospel; these charges of Ministers are as if an Herauld gave a Charge in the Magistrates name, which bindeth as from him, and more than another message delivered in other terms; in this then, Ministers are as Heraulds charging you in their Master's Name, even in the Name of the great God, and of Jesus Christ, the Prince of the Kings of the Earth.

2. When one of you putteth not another seriously to it, to forbear and abandon sin, or to practise such a duty, charging them, or rather obtesting them, as they will answer to God to do so, as often in the Canticles we find, I charge you, O Daughters of Jerusalem.

3. In your overly, rash, and slight way of using obtestations and grave entreaties, merely or mostly for the fashion, or by way of complement, or in petty and trivial things; as when ye say, for God's sake, for God's blessing do this or that, only ⟨p. 143⟩as a customary by-word; this is no doubt more than on ordinary taking of God's Name in vain in common discourse, because ye take on you to bind others in the Name of God, not considering what ye are doing; and in a matter not necessary, and of no weight exposing the Name of the Lord to contempt, and thereby tempting others to care but little for it; this is a most horrid and crying sin amongst our ordinary Beggars, whereof others also are guilty, who are not suitably affected with it, and do not in their places seriou y endeavour to have it mended; as also this is, when we desire one another lightly & irreverently to do such and such a little thing in the Name of God, as to sit down or rise up, in God's Name, &c. which things are alas too too frequent.