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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.
Let us then take a view in particulars. 1. Look to our profession, Oh! what emptiness is there, much more appearance and show, than reality and substance? yea what desiring to seem something, rather than to be? if our professions (who are least in them) were met and measured by our reality, O how lamentable vast a disproportion would be found? the one would be quickly found much broader and longer than the other, the outer-half much bagged as it were, being a great deal larger than the inner, even where there is most sincerity and reality.
Let us then take a view in particulars. 1. Look to our profession, Oh! what emptiness is there, much more appearance and shew, than reality and substance? yea what desiring to seem something, rather than to be? if our professions (who are least in them) were mett and measured by our reality, O how lamentable vast a disproportion would be found? the one would be quickly found much broader and longer than the other, the outer-half much bagged as it were, being a great deal larger than the inner, even where there is most sincerity and reality.
2. Look through public duties, if there be not much taking of Gods Name in vain, in hearing, praying, praising, using the Sacraments, &c. and if so, O what a Libel might be drawn up against us from every Sabbath, Prayer, Sermon, &c. whereof we often cannot tell what fruit remaineth, except it be sin, guilt, and hardness; and therefore doubtless his Name is much taken in vain in them.
2. Look through publick duties, if there be not much taking of Gods Name in vain, in hearing, praying, praising, using the Sacraments, &c. and if so, O what a Libell might be drawn up against us from every Sabbath, Prayer, Sermon, &c. whereof we often cannot tell what fruit remaineth, except it be sin, guilt, and hardness; and therefore doubtless his Name is much taken in vain in them.