A37049:726
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.
1. Much Atheism, and the little heart-esteem that there is of God, and of his Majesty; the little Faith that there is of his dreadful Justice, and severe and peremptory execution of his threatenings; little of these within, maketh men careless to be watchful, and what wonder if this break forth, when in his heart the man sayeth, There is no God; then this followeth, as is clear, Isa. 37. in Sennacherib, who when once he saith, Who is the Lord, then he treadeth on his Name.
1. Much Atheism, and the little heart-esteem that there is of God, and of his Majesty; the little Faith that there is of his dreadful Justice, and severe and peremptory execution of his threatnings; little of these within, maketh men careless to be watchful, and what wonder if this break forth, when in his heart the man sayeth, There is no God; then this followeth, as is clear, Isa. 37. in Sennacherib, who when once he saith, Who is the Lord, then he treadeth on his Name.
2. There is a natural pride and stout-heartedness in men against God, flowing from the former, whereby they set their mouth against God, and think it is a piece of bravery not to stand in awe of him; and (as Goliath did) to defy the living God, and to contemn and trample upon all Religion and Holiness which appears sooner and more clearly in nothing, than in stout words against the Lord, Mal. 3.13. and in profaning of his Name; hence it is to be observed, that where this sin reigneth, there is either a height of desperate security and stupid senselessness, or a devilish gallantry in contemning God and all Religion, all Prayer, and other spiritual exercises as not becoming ⟨p. 183⟩pretty men, or men of spirits; as if, forsooth, topping with God, and bidding a defiance to the Almighty, were true knowledge, and the grand proof of a brave and gallant spirit, and of a pretty man: O! what a dreadful length is this that men are come? to say in effect, Who is the Lord, that I should reverence his Name?