A65285:2575
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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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.
5. Covetousness is a Breach of the Fifth Commandment, Honour thy Father and thy Mother. A covetous Person will not honour his Father, if he doth not feed him with Money: Nay, he will get his Father to make over his Estate to him in his Life-time, and so the Father shall be at the Sons Command.
6. Covetousness is a Breach of the Sixth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill. Covetous Ahab killed Naboth to get his Vineyard, 1 Kings 21.13. How many have swum to the Crown in Blood!
6. Covetousness is a Breach of the Sixth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill. Covetous Ahab kill'd Naboth to get his Vineyard, 1 Kings 21.13. How many have swum to the Crown in Blood!
7. Covetousness is a Breach of the Seventh Commandment, Thou shalt not commit Adultery. Covetousness causeth Uncleanness. You read of the Hire of a Whore, Deut. 23.18. An Adulteress for Money sets both Conscience and Chastity to Sale.