words or acts, but must extend to the entire habit of our souls : for, as I have said, the prohibition in- cludes an injunction of all that is contrary to the thing prohibited. We must not only have no other gods besides him, but must love him with all the heart, and all the mind, and all the soul, and all the strength : and this frame of mind must pervade our every action, every word, every thought : and, inas- much as every seventh day is set apart for him, the body, as well as the soul, must on that day be de- voted to his service, not only according to the mea- sure prescribed for other days, but exclusively, even as the soul itself.
If we come to the duties of the second table, we shall find them of equal extent, whether as command- ing what is good, or as prohibiting what is evil. The fifth command enjoins all that can attach to us, as superiors, equals, or inferiors : it seems, indeed, to comprehend only one relation, and that of the infe- rior only : but it extends to every relation in which man can stand to his fellow-man ; and to every pos- sible expression of mutual love.
The sixth and seventh commandments seem ex- tremely limited ; but we are warranted to affirm that they extend as much to the dispositions of the soul as to the actions of the body. Our blessed Lord has explained them to us in his Sermon on the Mount. The Scribes and Pharisees had narrowed their import, and reduced them to mere bodily acts. But our Lord and Saviour shewed, that an angry thought was a transgression of the one, and an im- pure look a violation of the other. Exceeding thank- ful should we be for this infallible exposition of their meaning : for this throws the true light upon the whole ; and serves as a clew, whereby to find our way through every commandment of the decalogue. If the letter of them only were to be taken, the great mass of us, I would hope, might congratulate ourselves as innocent in relation to them : but if an angry word, even to the saying to a brother, ' Raca,' subjects us to the danger of hell-fire ; and an impure