Þ And neither in more nor leſs time, as he could have done. 9g ( 7. e. ) Ceaſed from his Creating Works ; otherwiſe he worketh ſtill, ( Jobn 5: 19: ) by his Providence and Grace ; and neither js idle, nox weary, Iſa: 40: 28: but this reſt is aſcribed to him for our Admonition and Imiration. » ( #5. e.) Made it a day of Bleſſing, as well as of receiving Bleſſings and Praiſes from men,as of cenferring his Bleſſing, and Favours upon thoſe that religiouſſy obſerve it. The Day is ſaid | to be bleſſed, when Men are bleſſed by it, and in it, by a common . Metonymy, as a Man's Field, Gen: 27: 27: and basket and flore, Deut: | 28: 5: and the work of his hands, Job 1: 10: areſaid to be bleſſed, when i a Man is bleſſed in them. 5 It is remarkable, the Bleſſing and San- : Ctification arenot appropriated to the Seventh day, but to the Sabbath | day, whether it ſhould be the Seventh day, as to the Jews it them © was ; or the firſt day, as to us Chriſtians now it is, which change g | ſeems hereby to be inſinuated. 7 (5. e.) Separated it from the reſt 4 of the days, and from all common Employments, and conſecrated it to his own holy Service, and Man's holy Uſe. * Lew: 6
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z Towit, any Man or Woman, without Authority,and without jult Cauſe ; * which exceprioa muſt neceffarly be underſtood, be- cauſe many other Scriptures command the Magiftratz ro kill grear Offenders. And this Prohibition, being delivered by God vvho and commands Mgns hearts, muſt be extend- ed not en'y to the external A& of killing bur to all motions of yhe H-art or Tongue which tend that way, / as Anger, Hatred, Envy, Malice, Strife, Blows, and the Challenges of Duelliſts; which is clearly manifeſt by comparing this with other Scriptures, as Mar. 5:21: 1 John 3:15. &c, And here, as in the reſt, is commanded the contrary Duty of preſerving the lives of our Neighbours as much as lies in our Power. :
14 Thou ſhalt not commit adultery «. _
s Here is mention<d one kind of Uncleanneſs,as being eminently ſinful, and unjuſt,and pernicious tro Humane Society. Bur under this are comprehended and forbidden all other kinds of Filthineſs, as Beſtiality, Sodomy, W horedom, Fornication, Cc. and all means, occa/ions,and appearances of them,as it appears 1. from orher Scri- ptures that forbid thoſe things, which either belongrto this Command, or to none of the Ten,whichis very improbable. 2. From the large extentof the orher Commands,noted before. 3- From cur Saviour's Explicarion, Matth: 5:27: And contrariwiſe,all Chaſtity and Sobriety in Thoughts, Affe@ions, Words, Habits, and Geſtures, is here pre- ſcribed. See 1 Theſ: 4:3, 4+ Heb. 13: 4.
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b (#: e: ) Either by deceit or violence, or without his knowledge a:id confenr, take away another Man's Goods, Eph: 4: 28. butanthe contrary ſhalt preſerve and increaſe them,as need requires,and occaſi- on :soff.red.
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1. 19: 16:Or,n: ſpeak # falſe t:ſtimony, or as a falſe Witneſs Which d<th nor only forbid Perjury in Judgment, but alſo all unjuſt Cen- ſure, Slander, Backbiting, Scrnng, falle Accutation, and the like ; and alfo requires a juſt and candid Judgment of him, and of his Words and A&ions, ſpeaking well of him, as faras Truth and Ju- ſtice will permit, and defending his good Name againft the Calum- nies and DerraCions of others. + No, nor for thy Neighbours; but he ſaich againſt, both becauſe ſuch Perjuries, Slanders, &c. are moſt commonly deiigned againſt them, and becauſe this is a great aggra- vation cf the Sin, when a Man not only ſpeaks evil and falſhood, bu: doth th's from malice and ill-will. But under this kind are con- tained other Sins ofa like, though leſs ſinful nature, as in the other commards. 4 A Man's Neighbour here is not only the Jſraelite, as ſome would have it, but any Man ; as plainly appears, 1. becauſe that word is frequen:ly uſed in that ſenſe, not only in the New,as a'l agree, bur a'fo in the Old T:flament, as Gen: 11: 3: Lev: 20; 10, Eſth: x. 19. Prov. 18. 17. 2. Becauſe it is fo explained, Luke 10: 29, 26. Rim 13. 9: compared with Match, 22: 39. 3. From the reaſon of rhe thing, whict is common to all ; unlels a man will be {o harlly to ſay, that he may bear falſe Wirneſs againſt a Stranger, though nor againſt an /ſr#elite;and,in like manner, that when God forbids a Man to commit adultery with his neighbours wife, Ley: 20 10: he may de it with a Stranger's Wife ; and that though a Man be commanded to ſpeak the truth to his neighbour Lech: 8. 16. he may tell lies roa Stranger. 4: Becauſe the gicat law of Love and Charity, which is the Life and Soul of this, and all the Commands, and binds us to all, binds us, and bound the Iſraelites to Strangers, as appears from Exod: 23: 4 and Levit: 19: 33, 34- :
17 * Thou ſhalt not covet e thy neighbours houſe, thou ſhalt not * covet thy neighbours wife,nor hisman- ſervant, nor his maid-ſervant,nor his ox,ner his aſs,nor
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