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 respect of the manner of going about such ordinances or duties of worship, 1. When the Lord is not sanctified in them, nor the rule and manner prescribed by Him, kept; this way, sinned Nadab and Abihu, Lev. 10. by their offering of strange fire. The Lord complaineth of Israel as guilty of this, Isaiah 29.13. compared with Matth. 15.8, 9. While they drew near with their lips, and their hearts were far away, they worshipped me in vain, saith the Lord, teaching for Doctrines the commandments of men. 2. When men use not such ordinances, and perform not such duties profitably, when prayer, reading of the Scripture, Sacrament, Sermons, &c. want their native fruit, then his Name is taken in vain, and in that respect his ordinances frustrated and made, as if they had not been used or performed, so • Cor. 6.1. To receive the Grace of God in vain, is to miss or let go the benefit of it, and to frustrate and disappoint our selves of the native end and use of it; This is the first way in respect of which our duties are in vain as to God, so as he will not regard them.

1. In respect of the manner of going about such ordinances or duties of worship, 1. VVhen the Lord is not sanctified in them, nor the rule and manner prescribed by Him, kept; this way, sinned Nadab and Abihu, Lev. 10. by their offering of strange fire. The Lord complaineth of Israel as guilty of this, Esay 29.13. compared with Matth. 15.8, 9. VVhile they drew near with their lips, and their hearts were far away, they worshipt me in vain, saith the Lord, teaching for Doctrines the commandements of men. 2. VVhen men use not such ordinances, and perform not such duties profitably, when prayer, reading of the Scripture, Sacrament, Sermons, &c. want their native fruit, then his Name is taken in vain, and in that respect his ordinances frustrated and made, as if they had not been used or performed, so • Cor. 6.1. To receive the Grace of God in vain, is to miss or let go the benefit of it, and to frustrate and disappoint our selves of the native end and use of it; This is the first way in respect of which our duties are in vain as to God, so as he will not regard them.