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Wherein honouring our neighbour confifts, and what it im

ports

Page

290, 291

ibid.

How honour differeth from love
Whether outward expreffions of honour be always neceffary ibid.
What is contrary to this honour we owe to our neighbour

How a breach of the first command

Whether we may feek our own honour, and how
How we should prefer another to ourselves

Humility required by the 5th command, a threefold confide-
ration of it. How the Pagan moraliits were strangers to
it. The advantages of it. In what things 'tis moft necef-
fary. The oppofites of it

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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-
lars

Jealousy, what it importeth, and how attributed to God
Ignorance of the law, the fad effects of it

36

292, 293

Whether wicked men may be honoured
Whether rich men fhould 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.

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65,66 108

2

42

Several diftinctions of it explained

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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

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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

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47

123

tands

319 Know

K.

Nowledge of God required in the first command
See Ignorance.,

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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

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27

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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
What love may be allowed to the creature without breach of

the firft command

Whether we ought to love all men alike

In what refpects may we make a difference
What are the grounds of a lawful difference in our love

How love to the godly differeth from common love to o
thers

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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
the fixth command

How many ways one may be guilty of this
How we may fin against the bodily life of others

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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

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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
what is neceffary to the reverend mentioning of the name of

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
How the name of God is taken in vain in ordinances and
duties

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Why the taking of God's name in vain is fo threatned and

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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

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What does not loofe the obligation of promiffory oaths, thirteen particulars instanced

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129, 130, 131

131, 132

What oaths are null, and of no force
Four cafes wherein the obligation of a lawful oath ceaseth ibid.
Why wicked men keep their finful oaths much more strictly
than they do lawful oaths

What an oath fuperaddeth to a promise
Obedience. The difference between obedience to the moral
law, as it refpects the covenant of grace, and as it refpects
the covenant of works

See Duties commanded. Law.

133 ibid.

44

166, 167

Omens and Obfervations, when finful and fuperftitious
How fuperftitious obfervations may be made of a word of
Scripture
Oppreffion fhewed to be a fort of rapine, and against the 8th
command

Obteftations, when lawful and binding, and how we may also
fin in them

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
Poverty, how men finful bring it upon themselves, and fo
violate the 8th command

Punishment of the iniquities of the fathers upon the children,
threatned in the 2d command, proved to mean fpiritual and
eternal punishment especially

127

128

320

365

109

110, III

Three confiderations for clearing how the Lord does thus pu-
nifh children for the parents fin
Five ends for which the Lord threatens the posterity of wic-
ked men

How children become guilty of the parents fin, and what spe-
cial need fome have to repent of the fins of their ancestors
Praifing God required in the 2d command

Our ordinary failing before the going about this duty
Many failings in the performances of this duty enumerated
Our failings after praising

Prayer required by the 2d command

Many fins before

prayer

inftanced

Many ordinary fins in prayer

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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

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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
thousand generations, &c. affords to believing parents and
their children

What is the meaning of the promise annexed to the 5th com-
mandment, and how to be understood
What advantage a believer under the new teftament has by
fuch temporal promifes

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

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307

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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.

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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
How to reckon when the fabbath begins and ends
What proportion of it should be bestowed on fpiritual duties

216, 217

Several confiderations tending to clear, that the 4th command
intended not the feventh, but a feventh day primarily 217, 218
Six arguments for evincing this
Some objections answered

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
ning, and continues till next morning
1. That the fabbath may be changed from the seventh day to

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