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…

The Lord in his infinite Wisdom and Goodness, hath so far consulted mans Infirmity, as to sum up his Duty in these Ten Commands, called Ten Words, that thereby his darkness and dullness by sin, might be helped by an easy abbreviation: The first Command therefore containeth mans duty to God in immediate Worship, requiring that the only true God should be worshipped: The 2d. stinteth and limiteth men to that worship alone which he prescribeth: The 3d. Commandeth ⟨p. 186⟩Reverencing of him in all his Ordinances, and a reverent manner of going about them.

THe Lord in his infinite Wisdom and Goodness, hath so far consulted mans Infirmity, as to sum up his Duty in these Ten Commands, called Ten Words, that thereby his darkness and dulness by sin, might be helped by an easie abbreviation: The first Command therefore containeth mans duty to God in immediate Worship, requiring that the only true God should be worship'd: The 2d. stinteth and limiteth men to that worship alone which he perseribeth: The 3d. Commandeth ⟨p. 186⟩Reverencing of him in all his Ordinances, and a reverent manner of going about them.

This Fourth pointeth out the Time which most solemnly the Lord will have set a-part for his Worship, that so He, who is both Lord of us, and of our time, may show what share he has reserved as a Tribute due to himself, who hath liberally vouchsafed on us the rest; which time is not to be understood exclusively, as if he would have only that spent in worship (there being no exclusive determination of exercise of worship, or duration of them in Scripture, that is to say, that they shall be so long and so often, and no longer, nor oftener) but that he will precisely have this time as an acknowledgement from us, even as when he gave Adam the use of all the Trees in the Garden, he reserved one; so when he giveth Six days to us, he keepeth a Seventh for himself.

This Fourth pointeth out the Time which most solemnly the Lord will have set a-part for his Worship, that so He, who is both Lord of us, and of our time, may shew what share he has reserved as a Tribute due to himself, who hath liberally vouchsafed on us the rest; which time is not to be understood exclusively, as if he would have only that spent in worship (there being no exclusive determination of exercise of worship, or duration of them in Scripture, that is to say, that they shall be so long and so often, and no longer, nor oftner) but that he will precisely have this time as an acknowledgment from us, even as when he gave Adam the use of all the Trees in the Garden, he reserved one; so when he giveth Six days to us, he keepeth a Seventh for himself.