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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.
Being (through Gods strength) resolved to Essay the opening of the Ten Commandments, all that we shall say, by way of Preface, shall be to give you an account or the Motives which have engaged us in this Work.
BEing (through Gods strength) resolved to Essay the opening of the Ten Commandments, all that we shall say, by way of Preface, shall be to give you an account or the Motives which have ingaged us in this Work.
T •e first is the Excellency of this Scripture, it being by the Lord himself intended as a comprehensive sum of his peoples duty, and commended to us from this, that though all the Scripture be his Word, yet this in a singular manner is so; for he spake all these words himself, and by a Voice immediately formed by himself he pronounced them first to his people, and afterward twice by his Finger (that i •, immediately by himself, without making use of any P •n man, as in •ther Scriptures) he wrote them for his peoples behoof upon two Tables of Stone, which were afterwards commanded in a singular manner to be kept in the Ark, D •ut. o. v. 2, 5. and to be l •arn •d, Deut. 5.1. as also to be written on the Posts of their Doors, and diligently pressed on their Children, Deut. •. 7, 8, 9, 10. In opening of which Commandments, not only the Prophets and Apostles, but our ⟨p. 2⟩blessed Lord in that Sermon of his upon the Mount, Matth. 5.6, 7. doth much insist.