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3. Temperance, or moderation in meats and drinks, purity'. '1 Tim. 3. 4. Modesty in apparel, in behaviour, in words2.

5. Castigation of the body3.

6. Prayer, watching, fasting4.

7. Marriage to those who have not the gift of continency".

8. The bed undefiled: or the chaste use of a wife.

9. Not to separate, divorce, or put away a wife7. 10. Labour in an honest vocation.

11. To make a covenant with the eyes and ears. 12. To keep honest, modest, and chaste company'.

In this Commandment are forbidden,

[3. 8.]
1 Pet. 2.2,3.
1 Tim. 2. 9.
Mat. 5. 28.

Gen. 19. 5. 31 Cor. 9.27. Ro. 13. 14. 42 Cor. 6. 5. 1 Cor. 7. 5. 1Pet.4.[7.] 51 Cor. 7.9. Mat.19.11. "Heb. 13.4. "Mat. 19. 3.

Ez. 10. 19. 82Thes. 3. 6-13.

Job 31.1,7.

All kind of sensuality, lasciviousness, wantonness, or un- Mat. 5. 28. cleanness, which is contained under these four words2,

'Prov. 7.22. Ps. 50. 18.

1. Toрveía, which in a married person is whoredom or Rom.1.29. adultery; and under it may be reduced3,

Deu.22.22.
Prov. 6. 32.

1. Incest, which is committed with one allied in the Heb. 13.4. degrees prohibited 4.

2. Concubinage, which northward they call a ligbie.

3 Lev. 18. 6. 1 Cor. 5. 1. 1Gen. 2. 24.

Mat. 19. 5.

3. Polygamy, or the taking and keeping of two or more Mal. 2. wives.

2. Tovnρía, villainy: under which are contained,

1. Bestiality.

2. Sodomy®.

14-16.

5 Lev.18.23.
"Lev. 18.22.
Rom.1.27.
Gen. 19.
'Deu. 23.

17.

Jer. 5.7. 8Eph. 5. 3.

3. Tλeoveğía, an immoderate desire: and under this are, 1. Harlotry, when committed with a common strumpet7. 2. Fornication, when with a maid not commonR. 3. Immoderate use of the marriage bed9. 4. Kakia, naughtiness, lasciviousness, wantonness; to which Gal. 5. 19.

may be reduced this fifth following.

[1.] All that feeds this sin, or are incentives to it; as

1. Luxurious diet, inflaming wines, &c.1

2. An idle life 2.

Ezek. 18. 6.
Eph. 4. 19.

Heb.13. 4. 1Isa. 5. 11.

1 Pet. 4. 3. Ro. 13. 13. 1 Cor. 5. 11. 2Ezek. 16.

49.

3. Morose thoughts that dwell on the fancy with de- 3Mat. 15. light3.

19. Rom. 13.14. Job

2. All outward provocations to it, which are the snares of 20. 12, 13.

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4Isa. 3.
16-23.
51 Tim. 2. 9.
62 Kings

9. 30.

'Pr. 7.9-27. [Deu. 22.

5.]

Mark 6. 22.

1 Cor. 5.11; 15. 33. Prov. 6. 27.

Isa. 3. 16.

2 Pet. 2. 14.

Eph. 4. 29.
Col. 3. 8.
Jas. 1. 13,

14.

1 Tim. 6. 7,8.

Phil. 2. 4. 1 Kings 21. 6.

Rom. 13. 8.

1 Thes. 4. 6.

4. Wanton gestures, dalliances.

5. Corrupt company.

6. Lascivious books.

7. Wanton pictures, tales, stories, songs.

8. Immodest kisses.

3. The signs of it.

1. In the eye wanton glances. Eyes full of adultery. 2. In the speech, σaπρоì Xóyou, smutty words.

4. In a word, all desires of wantonness consented to, though they break not into act.

Those who keep their bodies chaste, or use the means to chastity, are those who keep;

Those who pollute, or give way to any temptation that may pollute, are the men that break this Commandment.

The Eighth Commandment.

Thou shalt not steal.

Man may have a just title to somewhat, which he may call his own, whether his title ariseth by just acquisition, inheritance, by gift or donation, or by contract. And it is the purpose of God here to secure suum cuique, every man in his estate, setting a hedge and a fence about his goods by an eternal law of commutative justice, that no man dare to break over, or rush upon, what is his, without an apparent injury, and an affront done to God.

This being the end:

1. Here is commanded,

1. That every man be content with his estate; and to have moderate desires.

2. To preserve our neighbour's goods, and to suffer every man to enjoy his own quietly and fairly.

3. To give and pay every man his due; and injure

Deu. 25.13. no man.

Mic. 6. 11.

Pro. 27. 23. Phil. 4. 12. Lu. 15. 13. Mat. 6. 11. [1Thes.2.9.

2 Thes. 3. 7-10.]

4. To use justice in all our dealings, contracts, bargains. 5. To be frugal, and not to spend above our estates.

6. To use honest means to get a livelihood, viz. prayer and labour.

7. To use our goods to benefit others justly, liberally, 1 Tim. 5. cheerfully.

8. That we restore what is unjustly gotten or detained.

2. Here is forbidden,

1. Unjustice, violence, oppression.

2. Covetousness, and hoarding up all that comes in.

3. Tenacity, or the niggard's hand.

4. Contentiousness, and vexatious lawsuits.

5. Immoderate care and solicitude.

8, 16.
Lu. 6. 35.
Heb. 13.16.
Ex. 22.1-7.
Lu. 19. 8.

Rom. 1. 29.

1 Thes. 4. 6. Eph. 5. 5.

Tim. 6. 9. 2 Pet. 2.14. Eccles. 4. 8.

1 Cor. 6. 1. Mat. 6. 25.

6. Deceit, fraud, circumvention in bargaining, contracts, 1 Thes. 4.6. buying, selling.

7. Picking and stealing; or secret purloinings.

8. Open robbery, violence, plundering and rapacity.

9. False weights and measures.

10. Sacrilege to detain tithes, tribute, custom.

[Pr.20.14.] Eph. 4. 28. 1 Pet. 4. 15. 1 Cor. 6.10. Dev. 25.13. Amos 8. 5.

Rom. 2. 22.

Acts 5. 3.
Lu. 20. 25.

Ps. 37.21.

Jas. 5. 4.

11. To borrow, and not to pay again when they are able. 12. To detain hirelings' wages; cheat orphans and widows. Mat.22.21. 13. To embezzle other men's estates, and fail a trust. 14. To receive bribes, and to set justice to sale. 15. To break their promise, and refuse to stand to their Lev. 6.2, 3. bargain.

16. To embase and adulterate coin, and pass it for good and perfect.

Jer. 7. 6.

Isa. 1. 23.
Ps. 15. 4.
1 Pet. 2. 1.

17. Prodigality, to waste their own estate. 18. They who make not restitution, offend.

Lu. 15. 13.

Lev. 6. 4, 5,

19. To live an idle life, and not to use honest labour to live. Ezek. 22.

The Ninth Commandment.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

The scope and intent of the law-giver is, that as God is a God of truth, so those who honour Him, labour to preserve truth among men, and hate the contrary, which is all falsehood and lying; since by a false testimony the credit, reputation, and good name of our neighbour, that I say nothing of his goods and life, are much impaired and wronged.

This sometimes is called in question in judgment, sometimes again it may be hazarded in private commerces among

6, 7.

2 Thess. 3. 11.

'Eph. 4. 25. Ps. 15. 2. Rom. 1.30. Lev. 19. 16. 1 Tim.5.13. 2 Acts 23.6. Joh. 18. 36. Acts 5. 42. 3Lu. 22. 57. Rom. 12.9. 1Pet. 2. 1.

2 Cor. 12. 20. Acts 12. 22.

1 Thes. 2.5.

*Eph.4.29.
2Sam.16.7.
5Prov. 17.
27, 28.
Jas. 3. 6.

Eccles. 10.
12-14.
Gal.2.4-14.
Ruth 2. 4.
Eph. 5. 4.

men;

and therefore God here gives an order for the tongue, that whensoever, or whatsoever there be an occasion to speak of Him, we cast off lying, and speak every man the truth of, and to his neighbour. Our words then must be,

lying, and slander,

1. True to which is opposed calumny, detraction,

2. Free to which is opposed

3. Simple: to which is opposed

4. Profitable to which
is opposed

- vanity, tale-bearing1. indiscreet professing of truth, and cowardly fear2. dissimulation, flattery. guile and whispering,

unprofitable, hurt-
ful, rotten+

speech.

immoderate prating, fu

5. Few to which is opposed tility, unseasonable sup

pressing the truth3.

6. Courteous to which is opposed scurrility, railing,

scoffing.

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7. Affable to which is opposed morosity, churlish words7.

1. The virtues here commanded are, truth, freedom, sim1 Sam. 25. plicity, &c.

Gen. 21. 9.

10, 11.

2Sam.16.5.

$Pro. 10.12.

Mat. 1. 19. 9Acts 4.20;

1Jas. 1. 19.

2. The opposite vices forbidden, viz. lying, slandering, &c.

1. They then keep this Commandment,

1. That preserve the good name of their neighbours.

2. That truly and freely, and simply give a testimony to 5. 29, 30. truth, especially being called to it by lawful authority9. 3. That use few, courteous, profitable, and affable words1. 4. That speak well and charitably of their neighbours2.

1 Pet. 3. 8. Eph. 4. 29. 21 Cor. 13. 5, 7.

3Mat.26.60.

2. They offend against this Commandment,

1. They that bring in, and they that are false witnesses '1 Kings against any man3.

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21. 10.

Lev. 19.16.

Tit. 2.3.

Acts 2. 13.

2. They that accuse their neighbour unjustly, and raise false tales, and they who report and scatter thema.

5Lu. 11.15. 3. They that openly slander, detract, scoff, or rail, at their Mat. 7. 1. brother, or uncharitably censure him, and backbite him".

Rom. 2. 1.

4. They who are suspicious, raise jealousies, and are busy 2 Sam. bodies in other men's matters.

16. 3.
1 Pet. 4. 15.

5. They who flatter and dissemble with a double tongue". "Prov. 26. 6. They who are whisperers.

24, 28.

8 Rom.1.29. 91 Sam. 25.

3. 10.

7. They who use churlish words, and are vain boasters9. 8. They who give malicious false testimonies in public or 2 Pet. 2.18. private 1.

9. They who conceal the truth to the prejudice of another, being required by justice and charity to give testimony to it2. 10. Judges that give false sentences3.

11. Advocates and lawyers that wittingly plead bad causes*.
12. Registers or notaries that make false acts".
13. All that equivocate or lie.

The Tenth Commandment.

'Rom.3.13. Ps. 58. 1-3.

Ex. 23. 1.
Lev. 5. 1.

2Pro.24.11.

3Ps. 82. 2,4.
1 Kings 21.
12, 13.
4 Ex. 23. 2.
2 Chron.
19. 2.
5Isa. 10. 1.
Jer. 32. 13,
14.

61 Tim. 4.2.

Ex. 23. 7.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet Col. 3. 9. thy neighbour's wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his. This Commandment cuts to the quick; and the scope of it is to extirpate the very root, and destroy the seed of all injustice and uncharitableness from the earth.

It shews that God looks farther than man, and that His law is more perfect and exact than all the laws of men; for, whereas the laws of men can only restrain the outward act, Rom. 13. 4. bind the hands, and stop the mouth, and, in case they prove unruly, punish the malefactor; God's law takes hold on the Heb.10.16. first and inmost thoughts, intentions, and motions to evil, Mark 12. and in case they be entertained, will call man to the bar 30. for them.

I little doubt but what is here forbidden, was also prohibited in the former Commandments; for in them all intentions to evil are restrained. But yet with this difference; in them it was by reduction and implication; in this it is plainly and by explication; in them somewhat darkly; in this clearly, evidently, expressly.

And such an express and Command was necessary. For such is the deceitfulness of man's heart, that he is apt to flatter himself, and to conceive, that when he hath forborne the outward act, he hath done God's will. This is apparent

Rom. 7. 14.

Joh. 4. 23.

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