A37049:794
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.
2. As the Pra •tise of all, so the Judgment and opinion (which is often more sound than m •ns practises) of all, doth confirm it: Was there ever any Churches that did not in all their Catechisms and Canons, take in this fourth Command with the rest? do not all Writers, who comment on the Decalogue, comment on this Command, and urge the sanctifying of the Lor •• day from it?
3. Take men • Consciences for a third Witness, and it will be found that for no sin, do they more frequently and more sharply challenge, then for Profaning of the Lord's day: The Conscience directly making use of this Command, and of the M • mento, and other reasons in it for aggravating of that sin, when yet it will say nothing for the Seventh day; but this first-day of seven it presseth most exactly, neither will any reason all •aged against its morality quiet it; and the more te •der that Christians be, the more will they find a pressure of Conscience for obedience to this Command; and the more easily will they be convinced of, and sadly challenged for, the least breach of this Command.
3. Take men • Consciences for a third Witness, and it will be found that for no sin, do they more frequently and more sharply challenge, then for Prophaning of the Lord's day: The Conscience directly making use of this Command, and of the M • mento, and other reasons in it for aggravating of that sin, when yet it will say nothing for the Seventh day; but this first-day of seven it presseth most exactly, neither will any reason all •aged against its morality quiet it; and the more te •der that Christians be, the more will they find a pressure of Conscience for obedience to this Command; and the more easily will they be convinced of, and sadly challenged for, the least breach of this Command.