fond admiration w; breach of lawful promifes x; neglecting fuch things as are of good report y; and practifing or not avoiding ourselves, or not hindering what we can in others, such things as procure an ill name z. Q. 146. Which is the tenth commandment? A. The tenth commandment is, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's houfe, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-fervant, nor his maid-fervant, nor his ox, nor his afs, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's a. Q. 147. What are the duties required in the tenth commandment? A. The duties required in the tenth commandment are, fuch a full contentment with our own condition b, and fuch a charitable frame of the whole foul toward our neighbour, as that all our inward motions and affections touching him, tend unto, and further all that good which is his ċ. they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, faying, Hail, king of the Jews. Jude 16. These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own luits; and their mouth fpeaketh great fwelling words, having mens perfons in admiration because of advantage. Acts. xii., 22. And the people gave a fhout, faying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. * Rom. i. 31. Without understanding, covenant-breakers,2 Tim. iii. 3. Without natural affection, truce-breakers, falfe accu fers, 71 Sam. ii. 24. Nay, my fons: for it is no good report that I hear; ye make the Lords people to tranfgrefs. z 2 Sam. xiii. 12. And the anfwered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me: for no fuch things ought to be done in Ifrael: do not thou Q.148. this folly. v. 13. And I, whither fhall I caufe my fhame to go? And as for thee thou fhalt be as one of the fools in Ifrael: now therefore, Prov. v. 8. Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: v. 9. Lelt thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel. Prov. vi. 33. A wound and difhonour fhall he get, and his reproach fhall not be wiped away. 146. a Exod. xx. 17. 147.b Heb. xiii. 5. Let your con verfation be without covetoufnels; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath faid, I will never leave thee, nor forfake thee. 1 Tim. vi. 6. But godliness with contentment is great gain. Job xxxi. 29. If I rejoiced at the deftruction of him that hated me, or lift up myself when evil found him. Rom. xii. 15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with Q. 148. What are the fins forbidden in the tenth commandment? A. The fins forbidden in the tenth commandment are, difcontentment with our own eftated; envying e and grieving at the good of our neighbourf, together with all inordinate motions and affections to any thing that is hisg. them that weep. Pía. cxxii. 7. Peace be within thy walls, and profperity within thy palaces. v. 8. For my brethren and companions fake, I will now fay, Peace be within thee. v. 9. Because of the houfe of the Lord our God, I will feek thy good. 1 Tim. i. 5. Now the end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good confcience, and of faith unfeigned. Efther x. 3. For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, feeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his feed. 1 Cor. xiii. 4. Charity fuffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, v. 5. doth not behave itself unseemly, feeketh not her own, is not eafily provoked, thinketh no evil, v. 6. rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth: v. 7. Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 148. d 1 Kings xxi. 4. And Ahab came into his house, heavy and difpleased, because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had faid, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers: and he laid him down upon his bed and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. Efth. v. 13. Yet all this availeth me nothing, fo long as I fee Mordecai the Jew fitting at the king's gate. 1 Cor. x. 10. Neither Q. 149 murmur ye, as fome of them alío murmured, and were destroyed of the deftroyer. e Gal. v. 26. Let us not be defirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Jam. iii. 14. But if ye have bitter envying and ftrife in your hearts, glory not: and lie not against the truth. v. 16. For where envying and ftrife is, there is confufion, and every evil work. f Pfal. cxii. 9. He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor; his righteoufnefs endureth for ever; his horn fhall be exalted with honour. v. 10. The wicked fhall fee it, and be grieved: he fhall gnafh with his teeth, and melt away: the defire of the wicked fhall perish. Neh. ii. 10. When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the fervant the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to feek the welfare of the children of Ifrael. g Rom. vii. 7. What fhall we fay then? Is the law fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law: for I had not known luft, except the law had faid, Thou shalt not covet. v.8. But fin taking occafion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupifcence. For without the law fin was dead. Rom. xiii. 9. For this, Thou fhalt not commit adultery, Thou fhalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou fhalt not bear false witness, Thou fhalt not covet; and if there be any other Q. 149. Is any man able perfectly to keep the commandments of God? A. No man is able, either of himself b, or by any grace received in this life, perfectly to keep the commandments of Godi; but doth daily break them in thoughtk, word, and deed /. other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this faying, namely, Thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Col. iii. 5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleannefs, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetoufnefs, which is idolatry. Deut. v. 21. Neither shalt thou defire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's houfe, his field, or his manfervant, or his maid-fervant, his ox, or his afs, or any thing that is thy neighbours. 149. b Jam. iii. 2. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the fame is a perfect man, and able alfo to bridle the whole body. John xv. 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Rom. viii. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God fending his own Son in the likeness of finful fleth, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh. i Eccl. vii. 20. For there is not a juft man upon earth, that doth good, and finneth not. 1 John i. 8. If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. v. 10. If we fay that we have not finned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Gal. v. 17. For the flesh lufteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flefh: and thefe are contrary the one to the other; fo that ye cannot do the things Q.150. that ye would. Rom. vii. 18. For I know, that in me, (that is in my flefh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not. v. 19. For the good that I would, I do not, but the evil which I would not, that do I. * Gen. vi. 5. And God faw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Gen. viii. 21. -And the Lord faid in his heart, I will curfe the ground no more for man's fake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth :— I Rom. iii. 9.-We have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin; v. 10. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: v. 11. There is none that underftandeth, there is none that feeketh after God. v. 12. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one: v. 13. Their throat is an open fepulchre with their tongues they have ufed deceit, the poison of afps is under their lips: v. 14. Whofe mouth is full of curfing and bitternefs. v. 15. Their feet are swift to fhed blood. v. :6. Destruction and mifery are in their ways: v. 17. And the way of peace have they not known. v. 18. There is no fear of God before their eyes. v. 19. Now we know that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law: that every mouth X 2 may Q. 150. Are all tranfgreffions of the law of God equally hainous in themselves, and in the fight of God? A. All tranfgreffions of the law of God are not equally hainous: but fome fins in themselves, and by reason of feveral aggravations, are more hainous in the fight of God than others m. Q.151. What are thofe aggravations that make some fins more hainous than others? A. Sins receive their aggravations, 1. From the perfons offending n: If they be of riper ageo, greater experience or gracep; eminent for profeffion q, gifts, may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. James iii. from verfe 2. to 13. For in many things we offend all, 150. m John xix. 11. Jefus anfwered, Thou couldst have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater fin. Ezek. viii. 6.—But turn thee yet again, and thou fhalt fee greater abominations. v. 13.-Turn thee yet again, and thou fhalt fee greater abominations that they do. v. 15.-Turn thee yet again, and thou fhalt fee greater abominations than these. 1 John v. 16. If any man fee his brother fin a fin which is not unto death, he shall afk, and he shall give him life for them that fin not unto death. There is a fin unto death: I do not fay that he shall pray for it. Pfal. Ixxviii. 17. And they finned yet more against him, by provoking the most High in the wilderness. v. 32. For all this they finned still: and believed not for his wonderous works. v. 56. Yet they tempted and provoked the moft high God, and kept not his teftimonies. 151. Jer. ii. 8. The priests faid not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law, knew me not: the paftors alfo tranfgreffed against me, and the prophets prophefied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit. Job xxxii. 7. I faid, Days fhould fpeak, and multitude of years fhould teach wifdom. v. 9. Great men are not always wife: neither do the aged understand judgment. Eccl.iv. 13. Better is a poor and a wife child, than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished. 1 Kings xi. 4. For it came to pafs when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. v. 9. And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Ifrael, which had appeared unto him twice. q 2 Sam. xii. 14. Howbeit, becaufe by this deed thou haft given great occafion to the enemies of the Lord to blafpheme, the child that is born unto thee fhall furely die. 1 Cor. v. 1. It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and fuch fornication as is not fo much as named among the Gentiles, that one giftsr, place, officet; guides to others v, and whofe example is likely to be followed by others w. one should have his father's wife. James iv. 17. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doth it not, to him it is fin. Luke xii. 47. And that fervant who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himfelf, neither did according to his will, fhall be beaten with many ftripes. v. 48. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of ftripes, fhall be beaten with few ftripes. For unto whom foever much, is given, of him fhall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. Jer.v.4. Therefore I faid, Surely these are poor, they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God. v. 5. I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them: for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. - V. 2 Sam. xii. 7. And Nathan faid to David, thou art the man, Thus faith the Lord God of Ifrael, I anointed thee king over Ifrael, 8. And I gave thee thy mafter's house, and thy master's wives into thy bofom, and gave thee the houfe of Ifrael and of Judah: and if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee fuch and fuch things. v. 9. Wherefore haft thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his fight? -Ezek. viii. 11. And there ftood be fore them feventy men of the ancients of the house of Ifrael, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the fon of Shaphan, with every man his cenfer in his hand, and a thick 2. From cloud of incenfe went up. v. 12. Then faid he unto me, Son of man, haft thou feen what the ancients of the house of Ifrael do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they fay, The Lord feeth us not, the Lord hath forfaken the earth. v Rom. ii. 17. Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makeft thy boaft of God; V. 18. and knoweft his will,V. 19. And art confident that thou thyfelf art a guide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness, v. 20. an inAtructer of the foolish, a teacher of babes,---v. 21. Thou therefore who teachest another, teachest thou not thyfelf? Thour' that preacheft a man fhould not steal, doft thou steal? v. 22. Thou that fayeft a man fhould not commit adultery, doft thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idois, doft thou commit facrilege? v. 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the law, thro' breaking the law, difhonoureft thou God? v. 24. For the name of God is blafphemed among the Gentiles, through you. w Gal. ii. 11. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. v. 12. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew, and feparated himself, fearing them who were of the circumcifion. v. 13. And the other Jews diffembled likewife with him; infomuch that Barnabas alfo was carried away with their diffimulation. v. 14. But when I faw that they walked not uprightly, according to the truth of the gospel, I faid unto Peter before them all, |