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…

Because, they are frequently made use of, in the Scripture; Joshua, 7.13, 14, and 15. &c. Acts, 1. Yea they seem to be, from the Light of Nature, Jona, 1. 2. The use of them, is Moral and perpetual, Prov. 18.18. To cause Contentions to cease, and to part between the Mighty. 3. When they are rightly gone about, they are a Honouring of God, and are a Manifest acknowledging of his Providence. I say, Rightly gone about: Where,

1. The matter should be weighty or of some Consequence; that is, It should either be weighty in it self; or it should be so by some Consequence, or Inconvenience; making a light thing, in it self weighty, otherwise it is (as Swearing is, in a matter of no moment) but a baffling of his Ordinance.

2. It should be Necessary, that is a thing, that without many Inconveniences, cannot be in another way decided: otherwise to put God to reveal his mind, in an Extraordinary way, when there is an Ordinary at hand, is a tempting of God; even as; to leap over a Wall is, while there is an ordinary passage to go through by.

2. It should be Necessary, that is a thing, that without many Inconveniences, cannot be in another way decided: otherwise to put God to reveal his mind, in an Extraordinary way, when there is an Ordinary at hand, is a tempting of God; even as; to leap over a Wall is, while there is an ordinary passage to go thorow by.