tongues or ignorance And slubbering over any Ordinance For all irreverence in the things of heaven Argue's a heart that is profanely given This mightily condemn's the careless minde That move's the lip and leave 's the heart behinde That heedless is of what wee execute In prayer mindeless and psalm-singing mute Entring on duty with a heart unbent And unprepar'd receiving Sacrament Beeing at Baptism as a bare spectator No whit regarding the baptismal water Unreverent posture when they go to pray As if wee serv'd an image made of clay Sleepy and lazy prayers in our bed Unless by weakenss so occasioned Creeds Avemaries and I know not what Jabbled for prayers like the parrot's chat Yea and our Lord 's own words to idolize As if the bare rehearsal did suffice Jeering the Saints for their religion's sake All these for hainous profanations take Hearing without affection to apply Feeding our ears but not our hearts thereby Ore-curious questions wilfull cavillation Unreverent gesture or misapplication Entring the Church and starting out again When there are holy things to entertain Going to sit and sleep to muse and gaze To state on Beauty or where pomp doth blaze To keep our heart or eye without a curb And to do any thing that will disturb And lastly with a wicked life to stain A good profession take's God's name in vain Duties and Trespasses implied in the Fourth Commandment THe Fourth require's a seventh of all our dayes Spent in religion for our Maker's prais Preparing still against each Sabbath day Then rising early and avoid delay The chief are publick duties singing Psalms Pray'rs sermons sacraments and giving alms In private also wee must read and pray Discours sing Psalms and meditate that day Repeat the holy lessons wee have heard Nor may the works of mercy be defer'd Wee may do needfull works of earthly kinde Yet should wee do them with more heavenly minde Seasoning our corporal food with spiritual salt And all that edifie's wee should exalt At baptism wee must minde the bath of blood And spirit of grace pour'd on us as a flood Praying for him or her that is baptis'd That they with us may bee Spiritualliz'd Receiving Sacraments with hearts prepar'd With faith and charity and great regard Noting the breaking of the Corps-like bread The wine pour'd out as Christ his blood was shed Remembring he was God that could foretell By apt resemblance what himself befell The giving taking and to taste and feed Are all to be appli'd with carefull heed The Parent master and the magistrate Must look to all that are within their gate But these offences every one of them The fourth Commandement doth much condemâ— Not to confess or not to understand The moral nature of the fourth Command Not to prefer redemption to creätion As caus sufficient of the day's translation Forgetfulness of Sabbaths when they com Or out of slothfulness to stay at home Preferring duties don in private sort Before the place where all the Church resort Neglect of preparation meer delay Wearie attendance haste to get away Leaving of holie things som part behinde And suffering loos distractions in our mind A heart that run's a tongue that talk's in vain Of worldly toyes and following lures of gain To lay instruction or good things aside Neglecting to becom our families guide To be employ'd in errands trim attires Or labors which a common day require's Say that on Sabbaths need should chance enforâ— The hasty buâ—ial of a noysome cors Yet can it not compel in any wise To keep the funeral solemnities To ring and riot il become's a hers Much less when men should Christianly convers To crowd the Corpses in the Church that day Argue's the buriers are as dead as they Preambulations chattings or pastimes Feasts journyes visits or som lewder crimes As diceing carding Som are lewder yet Hurrying men headlong to the dreadfull pit As Stews and Stage-playes every day abhor'd But much more on the Sabbath of the LORD And lastly suffering sinners to profane The holy Sabbath when wee might restrain Although som sin by scrupulositie Pining poor creatures under miserie When sudden sickness or extreme distress Call's for a speedy succour and redress As when indeed wee cannot com or stay Our will 's accepted any hour o th' day For this rule hold's in Sabbath-exercise God will have Mercy and not Sacrifice Duties and Trespasses implied in the Fift Commandment HEre are the Duties and Digressions touch'd Which in the fift Commandement are couch'd First then the powers Supreme must first of all Bee sure they have a right and lawfull call Good wholsom Lawes they must by counsel frame â—nferior Powers must execute the same Unrighteous Lawes Superiors must repeal And set in order Chuch and Common-weal Even Kings and Princes daily should convers With sacred Scriptures and those rules rehers â—nd in their proper persons most excell 〈◊〉 godliness and guide their Housholds well Brave men they must promote of able parts Incourage virtue and reward deserts Judges they must appoint and officers And stir up able teaching Ministers Giving them charge that with alacrity They do their several duties faithfully Who they that prove corrupt and vile must bee Remov'd and censur'd by severe decree The Judges must give light to every cause Respect no persons but regard the laws They must maintain true freedom faithfully Propertie peace and civil honestie But most of all Religion that must have A sure defens against each storm and wave And thus far doubtless should compulsion go To cause to practise what men clearly know Wherefore the Christian magistracie ought Take care that people may bee truly taught And for that teaching caus them to maintain A learned Ministry to take the pain They are obliged allwaies to suppress Strife whoredom drunkenness and Idleness Profaneness conjuring witchcraft blasphemie Idolatry Heresie vain astrologie And all iniquitie since both tables are Committed to their custody and care All publick persons that are put in trust Must bee religious wise couragious just Patient to hear and hating covetousness Give good example and good Counsel press With Justice Equitie must go along Els utmost right may prove extreamest wrong Especially when as the innocent Among the guilty suffer punishment This care concern's likewise the Jurie-men And Officers and every one of them Umpires and Abitrators are no less Oblig'd to Equitie and righteousness But usurpation of the throne one hour Or putting vicious men in place of power Rigor remisness partiality Taking of bribes exaction tyrannie And toleration of those evil things The Lord's sure wrath upon the Rulers bring 's If Magistrates encourage not the Word And godly people by the civil sword If they reliev not the oppress'd with speed And let not flie against an evill deed If they will act no more then for their friends Or for their interests and worldly ends If they be cold or take an evil cours They hearten sinners and themselvs sin wors 'T is sin to
late and earlie hour In true devotion to our utmost power And Magistracie is God's ordinance In sacred things God's glory to advance The churche's peace and happiness to purchase Besides the keyes committed to the Churches But these are sins from which we must withdraw Condemned by the second sacred Law Neglect of duties mentioned before For meer omission set's us on the score Wil-worship which quite alter's or withdrawe's And man's invention adding to the Lawes The superstitious use of Images Although wee aim at the true God in these Religious honors don in any kinde To Creatures shapes of God within our minde All reverencing pictures or thereby To point out any of the Trinitie All that in idol-service are partakers All idol-mongers and all idol-makers All Superstitiousness when any one Doth put religion where the Lord put 's none Or when wee binde our selvs contrarily With the fals snares of scrupulosity For all wee reckon to our souls propitious Without a scripture rule is superstitious As Consecrating or forbidding dayes Religious places orders or arraies Processions pilgrimages popish pix Bell book or candle cross or crucifix Beads relques altars holy waters shed And worlds of superstions tow'rds the dead Rash vows and mock-fasts yea this Law debar's Too neer acquaintance with idolaters To let whose monuments go undefac'd Hath Christian Kings and princes much disgrac'd Rash vows are such as do from passion spring Or such as offer an unlawfull thing Oâ— such as are not in our power to do Yet of all these the saying is most true Vows rashly made may not bee rashly broken Though fit to bee repented of e're spoken Affected poverty is much a kin And single life when it occasions sin Defrauding our own families to dwell Within a monkish solitary cell The wilfull suffering of some hard distress As whips and haircloth sores and raggedness Which seem humility and self denial But pride and popery when they com to trial Moreover it condemn's all thâ—se that dare Without commission sit in Moses chair They that do want endowments and a call Had best keep to their shop-board and their stall Let Vzzah and Vzziah bee example To all that on these sacred orders trample Yea 't is a sin if such as have desert Refuse God's order to be set apart And they that thrust out by unruly stirr's True doctrines Ordinances officers And bring in false or let the Church to fall By Anarchie offend the most of all Christ's seamless coat may not be rent with Schism Nor truth admit of sect or Sectarism Much less of Heresie and wide Division Which ruines the foundation of Religion No fictions being fitlier term'd then these Man 's own invented graven images Duties and Trespasses implied in the third Commandment A Reverent meditation of God's Word Titles and attributes take up the third God's works must be observ'd with diligence Those of Creätion those of Providence Hearing and reading pray'r and spiritual songs Must exercise all awfull ears and tongues With understanding care and constancy With faith zeal gladness and humility With earnest purpose what wee hear to do Adding both pray'r and practice thereunto Confessing sin with grief when wee offend And with a speedy purpose to amend All weighty business must be usher'd in With solemn pray'r before the work begin Nor may wee here pass over or conceal The duty of thanksgiving at our meal The very mention of God's Name and Laws Must bee with reverence and upon just caus Swearing by God alone when call'd thereto And knowing what we swear is just and true Using God's blessings in a lawfull sort Even food and raiment labor sleep and sport And joining with Profession of God's name A conversation worthie of the same But these are sins of which wee must repent Forbidden by the third Commandement Irreverent words or thoughts of the most high Or mention of him in hypocrisie Privie hypocrisie is sin though small Wors is the formal Pharisaïcal But gross hypocrisie is worst of all Which under the pretence of pietie Dare's enterprise the greatest villanie Regardless Naming God in salutation In begging borrowing or vain admiration God save you God bee with you O good Lord Oh Christ Oh Jesus many a such like word May bee and should bee in right manner us'd But infinitely often are abus'd Because the Name of God by many a one Is us'd with slightness or not thought upon So singing psalms and tunes for recreation Not with devotion or due meditation Prayer or praise for small or sinfull things Cursing or swearing which from passion spring's From wanton custom or profane neglect Of that great name to which wee owe respect Thus som in simpleness when at their game They pray to win or praise God for the same Say God forbid to that which God will do And God save all when ther 's a damned crew They say if God will when the Lord will not But when they should say so 't is oft forgot Dreadfull is swearing by Christ's humane nature Or the great titles of the great Creätor But when by mortals or base things wee swear Greater reproach wee make God's name to bear Chiefly by Idols Hee commit's a sin of highest nature that offend's therein Yea vowing and protesting is too much Or calling faith or conscience to avouch Clipt oaths and curses which few people balk All idle words and foolish jesting talk And whatsoever phrase of speech bear's sway In common meaning more then Yea and Nay To say I le swear offend's and as I live Too bold attest for mortal man to give Or when for truth and certaintie wee dare With God and Gospel make a proud compare Or offer by presumptuous speech or spell To prophecy or work a miracle As vain are any kind of words brought in To jest with Scripture sacred things or sin Societie with mockers whose pastimes Are oaths and sportings at profanest crimes To hear the voice of swearing and forbear To warn reprove or punish them that swear Although it more prophane's the things divine To cast away reproofs on dogs and swine Such are those miscreants that care not for So rich a pearl or do the pearl abhor Bold adjurations to extort and draw The truth from others violate this law So do those pray'rs that never can be sped Vain repetitions dirges for the dead To pray for friends deceased is the trade Of such as seldom in their life time prai'd As vain are prayers for great cures appli'd But in a way God never sanctifi'd So are the prayers and presumptuous praise Which fond affection and false rumors raise Abuse of blessings or a mouth that 's dumb To give him prais from whence the blessings com Babbling in pray'r or preaching void of reason Duties misplac'd and acted out of season As private duties in the publick don More faulty when the publick is begun To read when wee should hear or pray's a crime For it profane's two duties at one time Prayer in unknown
serjeant and the setter That often cheat both creditor and debter What worlds of men live by unlawfull shifts The bribe-fed taker of corrupting gifts The prosecutor of unjust decrees To whom the vile extortioner agree's The clipper and embaser of the coyn A monstrous theft that doth much treason joyn Th'exacting Broker and the highway thief The cous'ning Breaker one among the chief The cunning cutpurs and the conjurer The cheator and the common Barretter The guilefull gamester and his loos partaker The brutish bearward and the ballad-maker The trifling juggler with his nimble slight The scurrilous fidler and the parasite The gâ—being jester with his wits so quick The ignorant unskilfull empyrick The bold pretender to some great cures don By touch or stroking of the seventh son Hee take's his fee but neither mend's the evil Nor hath the power to do 't but from the devil The base purloiner of men's goods and grist The vaporing and deceitfull Alchymist The subtle hors-courser inur'd to cheat And hee that rob's the dumb beast of his meat The tumbler and the dancer on the rope The spiritual merchants of the Romish Pope And neer a kin to him as Satan's factor Is every simoniacal contractor The exorcismist and the pardon-seller The figure-caster and the fortune-teller Th'inveigling preacher whom the truth controll's That for his gain make's merchandize of souls The sturdy rogue that goe's from door to door The player and the mercenary whore And hee that set's them on as many doe That serv's or feed's them is a robber too Manstealing rapine theft and pyracie Receiving stollen goods and robberie All these are sins and heightened when wee lurch The poor the weak the orphane or the Church Duties and Trespasses implied in the Ninth Commandment THe Ninth Command appointeth us to trie To know and judg our selvs impartially â—o shun the rock of pride and dangerous shelvs â—f self-conceit with low thoughts of our selvs By virtue to procure our own good Name â—nd when ther 's need wee must defend the same Yet this must ever bee with modestie And in a sort perform'd unwillingly It binde's us to bee sparing in our talk But when wee speak the trueth wee may not balâ— Where solemn promises and Covenants tie Wee must perform them though wee loos therebâ— Yet should they not bee rash lest when compacteâ— 'T were sin to break or sin to bee exacted Our Neighbour's credit wee must highly prize And should bee griev'd for his infirmities Casting love's mantle o're them without grudgâ—â—â— Hoping the best with patience and so judging Commending his deserts and gifts of grace Yet more behinde his back than to his face Defending his good name whose worth wee knâ—â— By speech or writing when requested so Abhorring everie idle fals report That wounds our Neighbour's Name in any sorâ— But this condem's the willfull promise-breakâ—â— The brain-sick boaster and the lavish speaker Proud self conceit from whence the boasting spâ—â—â—â—â— And over-weening of our own good things Unjust excuses and dissimulation Whereby to reap another's commendation Striving for place or fame to set us forth And bearing of our selvs above our worth High titles buildings ornaments array Have born fals witness often in a day And so much meaner they that brave and flaunâ—â—â— So much the greater must the sin bee granted Another sort of boasters too there bee That do good works but all for men to see Som sooner build a College from the ground Then lend in secret one poor saint a pound 'T is corban said the Pharisee well atchiev'd And leav's his needy Parents unreliev'd But these good works proceeding from vain-glory Tell not the naked truth of half the story So much fals witness do those structures bear Whose stately turrets popish pride doth rear Yet the Pretenders that would pluck them down And proud devotion in base avarice drown Have falser conscience and a cause far wors Those got som prais but these procure a curs For such hypocrisie and false pretence Is to bee censur'd falser evidence Others there are that tell a baser lie Having great wealth and pleading povertie A ragged miser idolizing pelf Both rob's and bear's fals witness of himself Unmanliness and whining for relief When men by wisdom should bite in their grief 'T is faulty others flattery to embrace But wors it is to do our selvs disgrace Sinfull is the disclosing of our wants Or weaknesses to carping sycophants Needless disclosing secrets breed's transgression And Popish-like Auricular Confession Yet to keep Satan's counsel undisclos'd Wanting the skill whereby hee is oppos'd Is to receiv fals-witness and conspire Against the truth to gratifie a lyar Causless suspicion also and to labour To bring reproach upon our harmless neighbour Of any man's infirmity to tell Unless a just necessity compell Wanting affection to our neighbour's fame Jeering and scorning breed no little blame For contumelious speech their good name tearing Is with a witness a fals-witness-bearing To think by casting of their dirt so thick Som will light on and som be sure to stick But they that think the wors for such aspersion Join with detractors to their own subversion Rash censure 's sin and libels of all sorts And giving ear to scandalous reports Abusive pictures and the drunkards songs And railing language of fals pens or tongues Deriding jests not caring where wee hit With the unruly engine of our wit Deriding gestures and hard speeches too Hoping to hurt though speaking he're so true Renewing mention of our neighbour's faults Which time had buried in forgotten thoughts Rejoycing his infirmities to see Which to provoke is great iniquitie To see one drunk's a shame at any time But to make drunk is a most horrid crime When Madman drunkard or a babbling fool Can make us sport it make's us break this rule For how much sin and shame on him reflect's That take 's delight in other men's defects But greater sin and shame do none fall in Than they that boast and glory in their sin 'T is sin to violate a private seal Or any trusted secrets to reveal Talebearing slandering lying misrelating Wrongfull accusing and equivocating Fals evidence forgery and a wrongfull sentence Are sins that call for very much repentance Yet all concealment cannot blame the tongue But that Which som way tend's to other's wronâ— Any fals papers to subscribe or sign Make 's us to violate this Law divine Or though the matter happily bee true To give our test to what wee no way knew To pay without plain witness note or book Hazards fals witness if it bee mistook keep fals records or accounts in store peacheth truth and break 's this Law much more â—ie's by hyperbole som scarce forbear â—â—d hee offend's that tell 's a lie for fear 〈◊〉 does 't excuse but aggravate a lie â—use it as a stale for piety â—ut monstrous lies which men devise for sport 〈◊〉 a more damnable and sinfull sort Romancers fortune-tellers ballad-makers 〈◊〉 all
the weathercock Prognosticators 〈◊〉 for the most part lyars by profession 〈◊〉 to defend it double their transgression Comparisons are odious to resent I bear fals-witness by disparagement â—efly when spite would cast the righteous down â—om God exalt's with honor and renown And there are faults too on the other side â—cious lies and persons deifi'd â—th flattering complements of tongue or pen 〈◊〉 giving too much honor unto men â—retended missions too and heresies 〈◊〉 to be rank'd among the rankest lies â—s also do the simpler sort offend â—eading books which Hereticks have pen'd â—aus there are no falser witnesses â—ill the Christian world then such as these 〈◊〉 may they read them that can well discern â— make the simple solid truth to learn â—ow much fals-witness then fals teachers bear â— they that hear them with an itching ear â—t as the Serpent once beguiled Eve â—h flattering speech lie waiting to deceive 〈◊〉 devil's pedlers under a disguise â—k'd with a fardle of deluding lies Duties and Trespasses implied in the Tenth Commandment THe Duties of the last Commandement Are gratefull thoughts and full of true conâ— In all things to affect and keep a mean Our hearts thereby from fond desires to wean Hoping in each condition to be blest And thinking still what God appoint's is best A minde prepar'd to bear both good and ill And bearing to our neighbours great good wiâ— Mortification quenching Sathan's darts And from temptation turning eyes and hearts Quelling each fond and fleshly appetite By spiritual contemplation and delight But here originall sin is censurable As the spring-head against the second table And every vile uncharitable thing That issues from or feed's this poys'nous sprinâ— Vain thoughts and contemplations could we How wee would wed and flourish live and dâ—â— Build plant and prosper things that can't beeâ— Nor wee bee nearer when our thoughts are 〈◊〉 Wishes and worldly projects how to store With worldly goods and carry all before us Such are lascivious lusts an evil eye Ambition avarice greedy gluttony O're-hastie cares proceeding from distrust Repining envy jealousies unjust Corrupt self-love rash anger discontent Motions of sin before the full consent Secret concupiscence and sin's first rising Which may bee fitly term'd sins tenebrizing Som murmur that their body is diseas'd Som with their hous and Calling are displeas'd The loss of chidren or a barren womb â—s the perpetuall discontent of som â—he teeming Rachel too sollicitous â—sk's discontentedly why am I thus Som corpulence offend's or to be lean â—om thinking their estate too poor and mean â—om to bee undervalu'd as they think â—om that their high estate begin's to sink â—heir charge o're-great their yoke-fellow unfit â—heir friends are lost their projects do not hit Som deafness or deformity doth vex â—om hoary age and som dislike their sex â—heir wrongs or tryalls too extreme som judg â—ameness or blindeness make's som people grudg â—nd som that their Inferiors as they deem â—et place before them or have more esteem â—nd then for want of grace and sweet submission â—re ever wishing other men's condition â—f all such sinfull thoughts must those beware â—hat would of this Commandement have care The Levelling Doctrine of Community â—hich doth all civil property deny â—nd that which doth Authority confound â—y Parity this Level's with the ground â—ecaus the same a sore infringement is â—f what our neighbour justly calleth his THE BREVIARIE I Commandment MAke God thy Hope and Joy trust all hee sâ—â—â—â—â— For no Obedience like 's him but of Faith II Commandment Act alwaies in Religion every thing By word and warrant from our heavenly King III Commandment THou maist bee short in duty never slight Nor use a word of GOD that 's vain or light IV Commandment ON Sabbaths alwayes put thy soul to nurs Shun worldly thoughts occasions and discours V Commandment BEe sure to carry well in thy Relation For none are good without that commendation VI Commandment BEe peacefull sober kinde shun wrath and striâ—â— By all good means preserv and succour life VII Commandment KEep Chastitie all wantonness eschew In touch in talk in hearing heart and view VIII Commandment SHun sloth and too much game injustice hate Maintain thy neighbour's and thine own estate IX Commandment MAintain thy neighbour's and thine own good name Scoffs flatteries slanders lies and brags disclaim X. Commandment DIsband thy throng of thoughts quell fond desire And let thy heart to true content aspire FINIS