A65285:2571
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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1. It breaks the First Commandment, Thou shalt have no other Gods but one. The covetous Man hath more God's than one; Mammon is his God. He hath a God of Gold, therefore he is called an Idolater, Col. 3.5.
2. Covetousness breaks the Second Commandment: Thou shalt not make any graven Image, thou shalt not bow down thy self to them. A covetous Man bows down, tho not to the graven Image in the Church, yet to the Graven Image in his Coin.
2. Covetousness breaks the Second Commandment: Thou shalt not make any graven Image, thou shalt not bow down thy self to them. A covetous Man bows down, tho not to the graven Image in the Church, yet to the Graven Image in his Coyn.
3. Covetousness is a Breach of the Third Commandment, Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain. Absalom's Design was to get his Fathers Crown, there was Covetousness; but he talks of paying his Vow to God, there he took God's Name in vain.