Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments, Index – Errata
AN ALPHABETICK TABLE Of the chief Contents of this TREATISE.
A.
ADjuring of men in what cases, lawful and useful, Page, 14.1
Adjuring of Devils, when lawful, and when not 143
Adjuring unreasonable Creatures in what sense lawful 144
Advocates their sin in pleading for unjust Causes, and Suits 444
Adultery, the Evil and aggravations of it 352
Three sorts of it, and which is the grossest 354
How many wayes one may incur the guilt of this Sin 358, 359
Alms, what obligation lyes upon us for giving of Alms, or for works of Charity 418
How great a sin, when neglected 419
Wherein this Duty consists 16
Who the fittest Objects for Alms-Deeds 420
Who are obliged to give Alms 16
After what manner, and in what measure should we give our Alms 421
General Rules directing the time, the manner and proportion of Alms 422, 423
Angels, visible representations of them impossible and dangerous 57
When, they were created 299
Anger when lawful, and when not 348
Appealing to God, in what case lawful 155
Apparel how to be used 362
The sinful abuses of it 363, 375
Asseverations, such as in Conscience, &c. whether lawful or not 128, 129
Attestations when lawful and binding 142
Of attesting God as witness 155
B.
BAck-biting, mens sin and subtilty in it 441
Baptism, the right administration of it required in the second Commandment 75
How Parents sin before the Baptism of their children, how in the time of the Administration of it, and how after it 94
Several ordinary sins of the administrators of it enumerated 95
The ordinary sins of the witnesses to it enumerated 96
Many sins of Professors in reference to their own Baptism instanced 96, 97
Beasts, the killing of them not forbidden in the 6. Commandment 34.1
How one may sin in striking of them 34.2
Bigamy, how a breach of the 7 Commandement 355
Blasphemy defined and distinguished 155
When it's against the Father, when against the Son, and when against the H. Spirit 156
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, what it is not 157
What it is 158
In what sense this sin is irremissible 159
How many wayes on may be guilty of blasphemy 159, 160
What sinnes doe occasion others especially to blaspheme ibid.
C.
CAlumny what it is 440
Caping or plundering of trading Ships, by privateers unlawfull even in time of warr 198
Charity, see Almes. Chaplains, see Families.
Commandments distinguished 9
In what sense affirmative commands oblidge semper, but not ad semper ibid.
6 Rules to know when affirmative commands bind to present practice 10, 11
10 Rules for the better understanding of each command 9, 11, 12, 13
Two more rules added 16
All these Rules summarily contained in sive Scriptures 17
Why some commands and not others have reasons pressing obedience, annexed 26
Why some have promises annexed 27
Why some have threatnings annexed ibid.
Concupiscence. How in the Sensible part of the soul and how in the rationall 450
Of habituall and actual concupiscence, with the degrees of the letter ibid.
Habitual concupiscence proved to be forbidden in the 10 Command. 452
Some objections answered 453
The first stirrings of concupiscence though not delighted in, nor consented to, proved Sinful and against the 10 Command 454
The sin of these first motions held out in many particulars 456, 457
How the inordinacy of these motions discovers it self 459
How the sin of these is not sufficiently noticed 460
That men in the state of nature cannot take up the sin of these 462
How Concupiscence in a believer differs from what it is in other men 463
Confidence it in what sense it may be put in the creatur … without sin 40
Covetousness what it is 412
How a man may endeavour to increase his estate without the guilt of it 413
Some discoveries of Covetousness 425
That in the Apostles times it brought men under Church-censure 426
What coveting is forbidden in the 10 Command. 448
The prohibition of covetousness unreasonably divided by Papists into two Commands 449
Covenant, every sin against God as our God in Covenant is against the 1 Command. as well as sin against God as God 48 49
D
DAncing, the sin of it 31, 375
Dayes, None can institute ordinary or fixed dayes for worship throughout the whole, beside the Sabbath 297
Giving or receiving gifts on New-years day, a sinfull superstitious custome 73
Despair, how a breach of the first Commandment 47, 48
Devill, his injections when our sin, when not 451
Dreams, see Sleep
Drunkeness, the sin of it Shewed in divers respects 377
Rules for preventing in sobriety in drinking, whereby one may also know when in any measure guilty 382, 383
How unbecoming all, and whom more especially 385
Whether on may drink excessively to provoke vomiting for health sake 386
Whether drunkeness lessen the guilt of sinnes committed in the time of it 387
Of Tipling and four-hour-singing 388
Of drinking at making of Bargaines 389
Of drinking healths 390
Of drinking at the birth of Children, and when visiting women in Child …bed 392
Of drinking at Light-wakes or dergies 393
Of the multitude of Taverns and Ale houses 194
Duells, the unlawfulness of them 343 344
Duties we owe to God by the first Command, summed up 28, 29
These required in the 2 Command, summed up 69
These required in the 3 Command. summed. 12 …
A summary of the Sabath duties 289, 290
Why our duty to Man is as particularly required in the d …alogue as our duty to God 309
F
FAmily-worship, wherein it consists 208
That the Scripture holds this forth is prov'd at length …09, …14, 215, 216, &c.
Sev … r …sons proving the necessity of it …90, 2 …1
That this is required in the 4 Commandment, proved various wayes 210, 211, 212, 213
That this duty is four wayes described in Scripture 232, 233
The right use, and also the abuse of keeping Chaplaines 234
The great advantages of consientious going about family-duties 235 236
Fasting, in what sense a part of Gods worship 108
Severall grounds of fasting 109
Twelve ordinary sinnes that goes before fasting 110
Twenty ordinary Sinnes in fasting enumerated 110, 111
Thirteen Instances of ordinary failings after fasting 112
Father, how to be understood in the first command 313
What Love the Father owes to the Son, and what the Son to the Father 333
Whether the Father or the Magistrate should be obeyed when commanding Contrary things ibid.
For …ication, the severall sorts of it, with its aggravations 356
Frugality what it is: Eight Characters of it. 424
G
GAin, when lawful and honest 417
Severall wayes of dishonest gain ennumerated 402
Gods, Who make unto themselves other Gods beside the Bond 41
Gluttony, how against the 7 command. 337
Divers considerations tending to discover when we sin in eating 338 to 382
Divers necessary Rules for regulating our eating and drinking 382
H
HAtred of God, how a breach of the first command 48
How every sin is interpreted hatred, and every sinner a hater of God 118
How corrupting of Gods worship is reckoned hatred of God in a special manner 119
Hair, how sinfully abused 364
Honour, what mentioned in the 5 Command. imports 315
Why Honouring our neighbour is commanded before other duties of the second table 321
Wherein honouring our neighbour consists, and what it imports 322
How honour differeth from love ibid.
Whether outward expressions of honour be alwayes necessary ibid.
What is contrary to this honour we owe to our neighbour 324, 325
Whether wicked men may be honoured 326
Whether rich men should be honoured ibid.
The place Jam. 2.1, 2 explained 327
How the honour we ow to a good man, differs from that we ow to others, alike in outward respects ibid.
Whether we may seek our own honour, and how 328
How we should prefer another to our selves 329
Humility required by the 5 Command▪ a threefold Consideration of it. How the Pagan moralists were strangers to it. The advantages of it. In what things its most necessary. The opposites of it 334 to 340
I
IDleness, the sinfulness of it 295, 297
Idolatry, 7 distinctions of it …31
Five wayes of more subtil hear …-idolatry 32
How to discover each of these 33
The ordinary objects of this great idolatry Instanced in 11 particulars 35, 36
What be the most subtile Idolls shewed in six particulars 37
A Twofold Idolatry, especially forbidden to the Isralites, and condemned in them 53
The Idolatry forbidden in the 2 command in six particulars 67, 68
Jealousie, what it importeth, and how attributed to God 113, 114
Ignorance of the Law. The sad effects of it, 2
How a breach of the first Command. 43
Several distinctions of it explained 44, 45
How it excuseth and how not 45▪ 46
Images of any of the … Persons in the blessed Trinity, proved to be unlawfull 55
Objections answered 56
The Command forbiding Images, proved to be distinct from the first 54
What Images may be lawfully made ibid
When are Images of creatures abused 57
Images of Heathen Gods▪ as Mars, Cupid, &c. prohibited 58
Impatience, how it appears, & how a breach of the first Command. 49
Imprecations, whether lawful or not 130
Incest, when committed, & where-in the unnaturalness of it stands 356
K
KNowledge of God
required in the first Command 28
See ignorance.
L
LAw, the excellency and usefulness of it 1, 2
How the moral Law obligeth us now 3, 4
The distinction of the decalogue as a Law and as a Covenant, cleared 6
How the Law was given to Adam in Innocency, how to Israel, and how to Believers now 15
The extent of the Law shewed in seven respects 14, 15
Several wayes of abusing the Law 17
Some directions for right using of it 18
Light-wakes and deriges, the sinfulness of them 73
Lots or Lotting defined 147
How the use of them concerns the 3 Command ibid.
Several divisions of Lots, and which of them are lawful, which not 168, 169
What is necessary to lawful Lotting 169, 170
Cautions for preventing abuse of them ibid.
Luxory lots proved unlawful 171, 172, 173
Some objections answered ibid.
Love to God, why called the first and great commandment. 309
What love may be allowed to the Creature without breach of the 1 Command. 40
Whether we ought to Love all men alike 317
In what respects may we make a difference ibid.
What are the grounds of a lawfull difference in our Love 318
How love to the Godly, differeth from common love to others 319
How we may love wicked men ibid.
What self-Love is lawful, what not 320
…ust, how early it entred into the world 350
Several degrees of unnatural Lusts 353
See Concupiscence▪
Lye, what it is, and when is one guilty of it 437
Four sorts of Lyes 438
How many wayes we wrong our neighbour by Lying 439, 440, 441
Of Lying in Court of Justice, how the Judge & how the Advocate may be guilty as well as a false witness. 444, 445
Life, the taking away of our own, cleared, to be forbidden in the 6 Command. 342
How many ways one may be guilty of this ibid.
How we may sin against the bodily Life of others 343
How against the Life of their souls 344, 345
How against their Life of contentment 346
M
MArriage, how many wayes men sin in Contracting of it 356
How one may sinne against the 7 command. even in a Married state 356, 357
How on may sin in dissolving of Marriage 358
Mother, why mentioned in the first Command. 313
Moral, all the precepts in the decalogue not moral in the same sense 7 See Sabbath.
Murther, several distinctions of it 347
How its committed in the heart, how in words, gestures, deeds 348, 349
How Magistrates may be guilty of it 349
Self-Murder how forbidden 342 See Life.
N
NAme, what is meant by the Name of God 121
What it is to take this Name in vain 122
What is necessary to the reverent mentioning of the Name of God 123
Why the taking of this Name in vain, is so peremptorily prohibited 124
Eight ordinary wayes of taking the Lords Name in vain 161
How the Name of God is taken in vain in ordinances and duties 162
How to prevent this sin in duties 163, 164
How we know when guilty of it 165, 166
Why the taking of Gods Name in vaine, is so threatened and punished even beyond other sinnes 180, 181
How it comes that this sin is so ordinary 182, 183
Directions for the prevention of it 184
Neighbour to be honoured and loved 313
How we should love and honour our neighbour 316 See honour and love
O
OAth, five things to be considered in it 126
How one Oath differs from an asseveration 127
That its unlawfull to swear by Angels, Saints or other Creatures, proved ibid.
The difference between promissory and asse …tory Oaths, and between promissory Oaths and Vows, shewed 131
A threefold matter of an Oath, and a threefold occasion of Swearing 131, 132
Of expresse or tacite conditions in all promissory Oaths 133
Whether indefinite Oaths, such as these imposed in Colledges, in Corporations, or such as Souldiers take to their officers, be Lawfull ibid.
What does not lose the Obligation of promissory Oaths, thirteen particulars instanced 136, 137
What Oaths are null, and of no force 138
Four cases wherein the obligation of a lawfull Oath ceaseth 139
Why wicked men keep their sinful Oaths much more strictly, then they doe lawful oaths 140
What an Oath super addeth to a promise ibid.
Obedience. The difference between obedience to the morall law, as it respects the Covenant of grace, and as it respects the covenant of works. 4, 5 See Duties, Command. Law.
Omens and observations when sinfull and superstitious 175, 176
How superstitious Observations may be made of a Word of Scripture 177
Oppression shewed to be a sort of rapine, and against the 8 command. 400
Obtestations when lawfull and binding, and how we may also sin in them 141, 142
P
PErjury, several sorts of it, and several wayes how one may become prejured 134
Whether one that necessitates another to swear, when he has a suspicion that that other will for swear himself, become Acessory to his perjury 135 See Oath.
Poligamy, how a breach of the seventh Command. 255
Poverty, how men sinfully bring it upon themselves, and so violate the 8 Command. 411
Punishment of the iniquities of the Fathers upon the Children threatned in the 2 Command▪ proved to mean spiritual and eternal punishment especially 114, 115
Three considerations for clearing how the Lord does thus punish Children for the Parents sin 117
Five ends for which the Lord threatness the Posterity of wickked men 117, 118
How children become guilty of the Parents sin, and what special need some have to repent of the sins of their ancestors 120
Praising of God required in the … Command. 82
Our ordinary failings before the going about this duty ibid.
Many failings in the performances of this duty enumerated 82, 83
Our failings after praising 84
Prayer required by the 2 Commandment. 79
Many sins before Prayer instanced ibid.
Many ordinary sins in Prayer 79, 80
Many sins while joyning with others in Prayer, enumerated 81
Many ordinary sins after Prayer, instanced in 81, 82
Preface [I am the Lord thy God] a preface to all the Commandments, but more especially to the first command. 25
Pride, in what things it appear 339 See Humility.
Promises, why annexed to some Commandments rather then to others. 27
Why the first Command is called the first Command▪ with Promise 312
What Comfort the Promise made in the 2 Command▪ to the thousand generations, &c. affords to believing Parents and their children 119
What is the meaning of the Promise annexed to the 5 Commandment, and how to be understood 330
What Advantage a Believer under the New Testament, has by such temporal Promises 331 See Vowes
R
RApine, what it is 397
Religion, how concerned in the duties we ow to others. 310
Riches, ten prejudices that come by them 416
Right, whether a wicked men has it, to any thing here 330
S
SAbbath, the observation of it a moral duty 188
Three considerations for clearing the morality of it. 189
The morality of it proved from the Scriptures way of speaking of it in general 190
The Prophesies, Ezekiel 43, 44, 45, 46 ch.
Considered 192, 194
Math 24▪ 20
considered 194
2 Proved that all the 10 Commandments are moral, and consequently this 195
This cleared from Mat. 5.19. Jam. 2, 10. 796
3 Several peculiar remarks upon the 4 Command, confirming the morality of it 119, 120
4 Four Arguments drawn from Scripture to prove this 201, 202, 203
Four Nota …e Witnesses to this truth 203, 204
Objections answered 205, 206, 207
Remembring of the Sabbath imports four things 237, 238
How to reckon when the Sabbath begins and ends 239
What proportion of it should be bestowed on spiritual duties 239, 240
Severall Considerations tending to clear, that the 4 command. intended not the Seventh, but a Seventh day primarily 241, 242
Six Arguments for Evincing this 243 to 248
Some objections answered 249
Several Considerations for clearing when the Sabbath begins 249, 250
Divers arguments to prove that the Sabbath begins in the morning, and continues till next morning 251 to 255
1 That the Sabbath may be changed from the Seventh day to the first, proved not derogatory from the 4 Commandment 255
2 That it was Convenient, that the day should be changed, proved 256
3 That the change should be to the first day of the week, proved most convenient 260
4 That the Seventh-day-Sabbath was actually changed to the first day, proved 262 to 271
5 That this Change is not by Humane, but Divine Institution, proved 271 to 275
6 That this change was made by Christ from the very day of his Resurrection, proved to be probable 275
How the Lord did Sanctifie the Sabbath, and we ought to sanctifie it 276
What works are Lawfull on the Lords day 277, 279
Eight Caveats for preventing the Abuse of what liberty God allows on that day 280, 281
What is meant by a Sabbath days journey 278
What resting on the Sabbath imports, and from what we must rest 282, 283, 284
That we are equally oblidged to the sanctification of the Sabbath as they were of old 285
An Objection answered 286
Wherein the peculiar holiness required on the Lords day consists 287, 288, 289
What preparation is necessary for the Sabbath 290
Particular directions for Sanctifying the Lords Day from morning to evening 291, 292 293
Whats to be done when the Sabbath is over 294
How the Lord Blesses the Sabbath 299
Why he has set a part a day to himself 300
How Magistrates are by the letter of the 4 command. oblidged to take care that the Sabbath be observed by all that are under them 296, 298
Six aggravations of the Sin of Sabbath-breaking 301, 302
In what sense Sabbath-breaking is a greater sin then the breach of any command in the second table 303
Several wayes whereby the Sabbath is prophaned 304, 305
Some Directions for preventing this sin 306
Sacraments, the right administration of them required in the 2 command. 85
Eight observations … Concerning the Sacraments in general 85, 86, 87
Five ends and uses of the Sacraments 87, 88
How the Sacraments seal the proposition of a practical Syllogisme, how the assumption, and how the conclusion 88, 89
How we sin by laying too much weight on the Sacraments: ten several failings instanced in 92
How we sin in undervaluing of of them: seventeen wayes enumerated 93
How we sin in not receiving the Lords-Supper 97
Many ordinary failings before the participation of this ordinance, enumerated 98
Many sins on the receiving of the Lords-Supper instanced 99, 100
Many sins after partaking of this ordinance instanced 101, 102
Whether the admission of scandalous persons does pollute the ordinance 102 to 108
Sins forbidden in the 1 command. 30, 39, 40, 41
How we may find out the sins against the 1 command 42, 43
Sins forbidden in the 2 command. 70, 71, 72
Sleep, whether we may not Contract the guilt of sin when Sleeping. Answered affirmatively 19
The difference between the case of Sleeping-men, and mad-men 19, 20
Seven arguments to prove the affirmative answer to the question 21, 22, 23, 24
Swear, see Oath.
Superstition, see omens and observations, superiours why called Fathers and Mothers 314
T
TAbles, of the Division of the Moral Law into two Tables 7, 8
Three observations on the Connexion of the two Tables 310
Four Scriptures that help to understand the second table 311
Temperance in eating and drinking stands not in an indivisible point 377 See drunkenness.
Theft, what that forbidden in the 8 Command, is, with the several sorts of it 396
Four sorts of theft more strictly taken 401
Twenty five wayes of stealing or wronging the goods of others 404 to 410
How men sin against the 8 Command. in reference to their own goods 411
Whether theft ought to be punished with death 427
Threatnings why annexed to some Commands and not to others 27
What the meaning of the threatning annexed to the 2 command. 114, 115
How the threatning annexed to the 3 command. is to be understood 179 See punishment.
Trading, the lawfulness of it, and how to be managed 417
Some general rules for right buying and selling 41 …
W
WOrd, the right hearing of it required in the 2 Command. …5
How many wayes we sin before the hearing of the word ibid.
Many sins while hearing the word instanced 76, 77
Many instances of sin after the hearing of the word 77, 78
How a word of Scripture may be superstitiously abused 177
Worship of God, the difference between that enjoyned in the 1 command from what is enjoyned in the 2 command. 52, 53
Worship of Images among the heathen two-fold 58
Some distinctions of divine worship 59
How religious worship differeth from evil or politick ibid.
Worshiping of God by Images, proved unlawfull 61
The heathens way of worshiping Images Considered ibid.
The place Deut 12.31. considered 62
The Israelites worshipping the Calf in the wilderness, Mica's Image, Jeroboams Calfs, the high Places in Juda Considered, 62, 63, 64
That such a way of worshiping God, is forbidden in the 2 Command. proved by five arguments 67
Exceptions answered ibid.
Will-worship prohibited in the …. Command. 72 See more in Idolatry, Images.
Onbelief, how … breach of the 1 command. 47
Vsury how forbidden 428
All gain by Lending of Mony neither contrary to equity nor charity ibid.
Six considerations for clearing this 429 431
On what grounds Vsury might be forbidden peculiarly to the Israelites 430
Several inconveniences that follow the asserting the unlawfulness of all profit by lent-mony 432
Whether one that lends Mony may contract for so much gain 433
Some Cautions to prevent abuses in this 434
Vowes not only lawfull, but in some cases necessary, proved 144
In what cases and what things lawful, and how to be gone about 145, 146
How they bind in moral duties, and how in accessory helps to duties 147
How and in what respects Vowes against, sin and for holiness at baptisme, or other occasions, bind 147, 148
How the breach of them aggravats si … 149
Whether these aggravations render it more eligible not to Vow at all 150
Whether the Simple omission of duty be a lesser sin, then the doing Contrary to our Vow 150 151
Whether one under Conviction of failing in performing Vowes, can keep up his peace 151, 152
How we may be helped to perform our Vowes to the Lord 152, 153
ERRATA.
Reader,
Please to take Notice, that there are two Marginal Notes of the Publishers, thorow the Printers inadvertency, slipt into the Body of the Book the one is,
PAge 3. line 2. the other is p. 333. l. 2: Some other Mistakes the Judicious Reader will easily correct, as in p. 75. l. 3. trust for tryst (i. e to meet) p. 253. l. 3. trusted for trysted, and elsewhere p. 231. l. 9. private for family, p. 234. as for has, p. 287. l. 2. needless by for needl …sly, p. 289. l. 7. e …ealting for exulting, p. 30 …. l. 23. statutes for statu …s, p. 320. l. 7. mediate for immediate, idem p. 344. l. 6.—p. 341 l. 5. dead for dear, p. 358 l. 19. walking for waking, p. 382. l. 21. unlawfull for lawfull, p. 393. l. 32. evils for ends, p. 437. l. 21. Falsly or safely, p. 455. l. 22. proving for roving.