A Body of Practical Divinity

3. Gods Commandments are Ornamental; Omnia quae praestari jubet Deus, non onerant nos sed ornant, Salvian. Gods Commandments do not burden us but adorn us. It is an Honour to be employed in a Kings Service: And so to be employed in Gods, by whom Kings reign. To walk in Gods Commandments proclaims us to be wise, Deut. 4.5, 6. Behold I have taught you Statutes: Keep, therefore, and do them, for this is your wisdom. And to be wise is an Honour: I may say of every Commandment of God, as Prov. 4.9. It shall give to thy head an ornament of Grace.

3. Gods Commandments are Ornamental; Omnia quae praestari jubet Deus, non onerant nos sed ornant, Salvian. Gods Commandments do not burden us but adorn us. It is an Honour to be imployed in a Kings Service: And so to be imployed in Gods, by whom Kings reign. To walk in Gods Commandments proclaims us to be wise, Deut. 4.5, 6. Behold I have taught you Statutes: Keep, therefore, and do them, for this is your wisdom. And to be wise is an Honour: I may say of every Commandment of God, as Prov. 4.9. It shall give to thy head an ornament of Grace.

4. The Commands of God are infinitely better than the Commands of Sin; these are intolerable. Let a Man be under the command of any Lust, how doth he tire himself! what Hazards doth he run to the endangering his Health and Soul that he may satisfy his Lust, Jer. 9.5. They weary themselves to commit Iniquity. And are not Gods Commandments more equal, facile, pleasant, than the Commands of Sin? Chrysostom saith true, [Greek or Hebrew]. To act Virtue, is easier than to act Vice: Temperance is less troublesome than Drunkenness: Meekness is less troublesome than Passion and Envy. There is more difficulty in the Contrivement and Pursuit of a wicked Design, than in Obeying the Commandments of God. Hence a Sinner is said to travel with Iniquity,