A37049:735
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.
3. Use and mention his Name reverently in Prayer, Hearing, Conference, &c. For, habituating our selves to formality in such duties, maketh way ordinarily for more gross violations of this Command; and study to be more affected even when narratively ye are telling something wherein his Name is mentioned, than otherwise.
3. Use and mention his Name reverently in Prayer, Hearing, Conference, &c. For, habituating our selves to formality in such duties, maketh way ordinarily for more gross violations of this Command; and study to be more affected even when narratively ye are telling somthing wherein his Name is mentioned, than otherwise.
4. Tremble at this sin, and suitably resent it; when ye hear it in others, be affected with it, and labour to make them so, that ye may thus train your selves to an abominating of that evil.
4. Tremble at this sin, and sutably resent it; when ye hear it in others, be affected with it, and labour to make them so, that ye may thus train your selves to an abominating of that evil.
5. Let it never pass in your selves, especially, without some special grave animadversion: Look back on all your life, and see if ye can remember when and where ye were gro ••y guilty; reflect on your worship, and observe omissions and defects, at left in respect of what ye might have been at, and learn to loath your selves for these, and to be in bitterness for them; especially if the escapes have been more late and recent, let them not sleep with you, lest ye be hardened, and the Sentence stand in force unrepealed against you; what? will ye sleep and this Word stand in the Bible on record as a Registered Decree against you?