Wherein honouring our neighbour confifts, and what it im ports Page 290, 291 ibid. How honour differeth from love How a breach of the first command Whether we may feek our own honour, and how Humility required by the 5th command, a threefold confide- Idolatry, feven diftinctions of it Five ways of more fubtile heart-idolatry 302 to 307 266, 267, 268 29, 30 31, 32, 33 The ordinary objects of this great idolatry inftanced in 1 particulars What be the moft fubtile Idols fhewed in fix particulars 34,35 A twofold idolatry, efpecially forbidden to the Ifraelites, and condemned in them The indolatry forbidden in the 2d command, in five particu- Jealousy, what it importeth, and how attributed to God 36 292, 293 Whether wicked men may be honoured 294 295 The place, fam. 2. 1, 2. explained ibid. How the honour we owe to a good man, differs from we owe to others, alike in outward refpects that ibid. 296, 297 ibid. 51 65,66 108 2 42 Several diftinctions of it explained 43 How it excufeth, and how not 44 Images of any of the three perfons in the bleffed Trinity, proved to be unlawful 53 Objections answered 54 The command forbidding images, proved to be diftinct from Images of heathen gods, as Mars, Cupid, &c. prohibited Impatience, how it appears, and how a breach of the first command Imprecations, whether lawful or not Inceft, when committed, and wherein the unnaturalness of it 56 47 123 tands 319 Know K. Nowledge of God required in the first command L. Aw, the excellency and usefulness of it How the moral law obligeth us now The distinction of the decalogue, as a law, and as a covenant, cleared How the law was given to Adam in innocency, how to Ifrael, and how to believers now The extent of the law fhewed in feven refpects Page 27 I 3 5 15 13, 14 Several ways of abufing the law 17 Some directions for right ufing of it 17, 18 Late-wakes and Divegies, the finfulness of them 70 Lots or Lotting defined How the use of them concerns the third command Several divifions of lots, and which of them are lawful, which not What is neceffary to lawful lotting 158, 159, 160 158 159 160 Cautions for preventing abufe of them 161 Lufory lots proved unlawful 161, 162, 163, 164 Some objections answered ibid. Love to God, why called the firft and great commandment the firft command Whether we ought to love all men alike In what refpects may we make a difference How love to the godly differeth from common love to o How many ways we wrong our neighbour by lying Of lying in courts of justice, how the judge and how the advocate may be guilty, as well as a falfe witness 392 395, 396 Life, the taking away of our own, cleared to be forbidden in How many ways one may be guilty of this M M. Arriage, how many ways men fin in contracting of it How one may fin against the feventh command, even in a married ftate How one may fin in diffolving of marriage Mother, why mentioned in the fifth command Page 300 321, 322 Moral, all the precepts in the decalogue not moral in the fame fenfe See Sabbath. Murder, feveral diftinctions of it How it is committed in the heart, how in words, gestures, deeds How magiftrates may be guilty of it Self-murder, how forbidden N. Name, what is meant by the name of God See Life. what it is to take his name in vain God Why the taking of his name in vain is so peremptorily prohibited 323 283 7 313 314, 315 ihid. 309 115, 116 ibid. 117 118 Eight ordinary ways of taking the Lord's name in vain Why the taking of God's name in vain is fo threatned and Ath, five things to be confidered in it How an oath differs from an affeveration That 'tis unlawful to fwear by angels, faints or other creatures, proved The difference between promiffory and affertory oaths, and between promiffory oaths and vows, fhewed 120 121 ibid. 124, 125. A threefold matter of an oath, and a threefold occafion of fwearing Of exprefs or tacite conditions in all promiffory oaths Whether indefinite oaths, fuch as thefe impofed in colleges, in corporations, or such as foldiers give to their officers, be lawful ibid. 126 ibid What What does not loofe the obligation of promiffory oaths, thirteen particulars instanced Page 129, 130, 131 131, 132 What oaths are null, and of no force What an oath fuperaddeth to a promise See Duties commanded. Law. 133 ibid. 44 166, 167 Omens and Obfervations, when finful and fuperftitious Obteftations, when lawful and binding, and how we may also P. ibid. 355 134, 135 Erjury, feveral forts of it, and feveral ways how one may become perjured Whether one that neceffitates another to fwear, when he has a fufpicion that that other will forfwear himself, becomes acceffory to his perjury See Oaths. Polygamy, how a breach of the feventh command Punishment of the iniquities of the fathers upon the children, 127 128 320 365 109 110, III Three confiderations for clearing how the Lord does thus pu- How children become guilty of the parents fin, and what spe- Our ordinary failing before the going about this duty Prayer required by the 2d command Many fins before prayer inftanced Many ordinary fins in prayer Many fins, while joining with others in prayer, enumerated 78 Many ordinary fins after prayer instanced in Preface [I am the Lord thy God] a preface to all the commandments, but more especially to the first command Pride, in what things it appears See Humility. Promifes, why annexed to fome commandments rather than to others Why the fifth command is called the first command with promife What comfort the promise made in the 2d command to the What is the meaning of the promise annexed to the 5th com- Apine, what it is See Vows. R. Religion, how concerned in the duties we owe to others Riches, ten prejudices that come by thein Right, whether a wicked man has it to any thing here S.. Sabbath, the obfervation of it a moral duty Three confiderations for clearing the morality of it Page 307 26 1 282 114 298 299 3.52 280 379 298 178, 179 1. The morality of it proved from the fcripture's way of fpeaking of it in general. The prophecies, Ezekiel 43, 44, 45, 46. considered Matth. 24. 20. confidered 2. Proved that all the 10 commandments are moral, and confequently this This cleared from Mat. 5. 17. Fam. 2. 10. 3. Several peculiar remarks upon the 4th command, ming the morality of it 4. Arguments drawn from fcripture to prove this Four notable witneffes to this truth Objections answered ibid. 180 182 183 184 185, 186 confir188, 189 195, 191, 192 192, 193 ibid. to 195 214, 215 216 Remembring of the fabbath imports four things 216, 217 Several confiderations tending to clear, that the 4th command 220 to 224 224,225 Several confiderations for clearing when the fabbath begins 225, 226 226, to 230 Divers arguments to prove that the fabbath begins in the mor |