Bondage I. Thou shalt have none other Gods but me II. Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath or in the water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God and visit the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shew mercy unto thousands in them that love me and keep my Commandments III. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain For the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his Name in vain IV. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day Six days shalt thou labour and doe all that thou hast to doe but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt doe no manner of work thou and thy Son and thy Daughter thy Man-servant and thy Maid-servant thy Cattel and the stranger that is within thy Gates For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth the Sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it V. Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt doe no Murther VII Thou shalt not commit Adultery VIII Thou shalt not Steal IX Thou shalt not bear false Witness against thy Neighbour X. Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbour's House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbour's Wife nor his Servant nor his Maid nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is his Q. What dost thou chiefly learn by these Commandments A. I learn two things my duty towards God and my duty towards my Neighbour Q. What is thy duty towards God A. My duty towards God is I. II. To believe in him to fear him and to love him with all my heart with all my mind with all my Soul and with all my strength to worship him to give him thanks to put my whole trust in him to call upon him III. To honour his holy Name and his Word IV. And to serve him truly all the days of my life Q. What is thy duty towards thy Neighbour A. My duty towards my Neighbour is To love him as my self and to doe to all men as I would they should doe to me V. To love honour and succour my Father and Mother To honour and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under him To submit my self to all my Governours Teachers spiritual Pastours and Masters To order my self lowly and reverently to all my betters VI. To hurt no body by word or deed VII To be true and just in all my dealings VIII To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart IX To keep my hands from picking and stealing X. And my tongue from evil-speaking lying and slandering XI To keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity XII Not to covet and desire other mens goods but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living and to doe my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me Q. You have shew'd me how the Creed presents to us the Motives shew me next how the Ten Commandments contain the Fruits or Effects of Divine love A. Jesus our Love the great Prophet of Love has given us this trial of our love If ye love me keep my Commandments Q. Are there not some general Rules very usefull to be observ'd in expounding the Commandments A. Divine Love does suggest to us the best Rules and is the best Expositour to teach us the full importance of every Command Q. Shew me how A. The Love of God does necessarily include these two things a tenderness to please and a fearfulness to offend our Beloved and this Love will be a sure guide to us in both the affirmative and the negative part of each Command Q. Express this more distinctly A. I shall doe it in these following Particulars 1. O my God when in any of thy Commands a duty is enjoin'd Love tells me the contrary evil is forbidden when any evil is forbidden Love tells me the contrary duty is enjoin'd O do thou daily increase my love to good and my antipathy to evil 2. Though thy Commands and Prohibitions O Lord are in general terms yet let thy love direct my particular practice and teach me that in one general are imply'd all the kinds and degrees and occasions and incitements and approaches and allowances relating to that good or evil which are also commanded or forbidden and give me grace to pursue or to fly them 3. O my God keep my love always watchfull and on its guard that in thy negative Precepts I may continually resist evil keep my love warm with an habitual zeal that in all thy affirmative Precepts I may lay hold on all seasons and opportunities of doing good 4. Let thy love O thou that onely art worthy to be belov'd make me carefull to persuade and engage others to love thee and to keep thy Commands as well as my self 5. None can love thee O Lord and endeavour to keep thy holy Commands but his daily failings in his duty his frequent involuntary and unavoidable slips and surreptions and wandrings afflict and humble him the infirmities of lapst nature create him a kind of perpetual martyrdom because he can love thee no more because he can so little serve thee But thou O most compassionate Father in thy Covenant of Grace dost require sincerity not perfection and therefore I praise and love thee O my God though I cannot love and obey thee as much as I desire I will doe it as much as I am able I will to the utmost of my power keep all thy Commandments with my whole heart and to the end O accept of my imperfect duty and supply all the defects of it by the merits and love and obedience of Jesus thy Beloved 6. Glory be to thee O thou supreme Law-giver for delivering these Commands to sinfull men they are the words which thou thy self O great Iehovah didst speak O let me ever have an awfull regard for every word thou hast spoken O let me ever love thee for speaking them and for giving us the Laws of Love 7. Glory be to thee O Lord God who to make every one of us sensible of our obligation hast given all thy Commands in the second Person and by saying Thou hast spoken in particular to every Soul that every Soul might love and obey thee Glory be to thee O my God who in this short abstract in these Ten Commandments hast compris'd the full extent of our Duty all the effects of Divine Love Teach me O Lord to examine my Love by thy Commands that I may know how to please thee that I may know
wherein I have offended thee and grieve for my offences that I may bewail all my commissions of sin all my omissions of duty Teach me O Lord by this thy Law which is the rule of Love and of all my Actions to examine not onely my several sins but also all their several aggravations whether they have been wilfull or known or frequent or obstinate or habitual or ensnaring to others that Love may shed the more tears and in some measure proportion my contrition to my guilt 8. Glory be to thee O Lord God who givest us Christians higher obligations to keep thy Commands than thou didst to the Jews they had onely the memory of their temporal deliverance out of the Land of Egypt and the House of Bondage set before them we are deliver'd out of spiritual Egypt from the bondage of Sin the power of Satan and the torments of Hell O give us grace to exceed them as much in our love and thanksgiving and obedience as we do in our blessings 9. Glory be to thee O great Iehovah who to constrain us to love and obey thee art pleas'd to honour every faithfull Soul with a near and intimate propriety in thy self and gratiously to declare I am the Lord thy God O mercifull Lord what is it possible for me to desire more than to have thee for my God If thou be my God the relation ought to be mutual and I must be thy Servant Lord be thou mine and I will be for ever thine My Beloved is mine and I am his My God my Father my Friend my Love whatever is thine I will love and particularly thy Law will I love for teaching me to love thee thy Law I will highly esteem and diligently read and study thy Law shall be daily my delight my consellour and my meditation O my good God keep me always thine and let nothing ever divorce me from thy love Q. You have laid down proper rules for interpreting the Commandments shew me now how they are divided A. Into two sorts or Tables suitable to the two respects they have to God and to our Neighbour Q. Begin with the first Table and shew me the number and order of the Commands which it contains A. It contains the four first Commands which relate to God and teach us the Worship of God even that reverential Love we are to pay to God which naturally arises from a true sense of his infinite both goodness and greatness This Worship of God is either inward or outward The inward Worship being that of the Heart is the nobler of the two and this together with the right object of our worship is taught in the First Commandment as the foundation of all the rest The outward is compris'd in the three following which teach us the regulation of God's Worship in reference to our Gestures in the Second to our Tongues in the Third to our Time in the Fourth Q. Which are the duties of the Second Table A. They are the six remaining Commands which do all relate to our Neighbour of which I shall speak in their due place Q. What have you farther to observe of the Commandments in general A. 'T is observable that those which refer to God are put first to teach us that the love of God is the chief and original Command and ought chiefly to be studied and to teach us also that all the duties of the Second Table must yield to the First whenever they stand in any competition Q. Go over all the Ten Commandments in particular and shew me how they are all the genuine fruits and effects of Divine Love exercis'd either in doing good or eschewing evil A. I shall gladly doe it and as distinctly as possibly I can taking every Commandment apart The First Commandment O thou who onely art Iehovah if thou be my God and if I truly love thee I can never suffer any creature to be thy Rival or to share my heart with thee I can have no other God no other Love but onely thee O infinite Goodness thou onely art amiable whatever is amiable besides thee is no farther amiable than it bears some impressions on it of thy amiableness and therefore all Love all Glory be to thee alone O my God O my Love instill into my Soul so entire reverential a Love of thee that I may love nothing but for thy sake or in subordination to thy Love O Love give me grace to study thy Knowledge that the more I know thee the more I may love thee O my God O my Love do thou create in me a stedfast Faith in the veracity a lively Hope in the Promises a firm trust in the Power a confident reliance on the Goodness and a satisfactory acquiescence in the All-sufficiency of thee my Beloved O my God O my Love do thou create in me an ardent desire of the presence an heavenly delight in the fruition of thee my Beloved O my God O my Love fill my heart with Thanksgiving for the Blessings Praise of the Excellence Adoration of the Majesty Zeal for the Glory of thee my Beloved O my God O my Love fill my heart with a true Repentance for offending with a constant fear of provoking thee my Beloved O my God O my Love fill my heart with an affective Devotion in Prayer and with a profound Humility in ascribing all Honour to thee my Beloved O my God O my Love create in me a sincere Obedience to all the commands a submissive Patience under all the chastisements an absolute Resignation to all the disposals of thee my Beloved O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull Love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy name that in all these and in all other possible instances of thy Love our Souls may be continually employed to praise and to love thee O my God O my Love let me ever be seeking occasions to excite all I can to adore and love thee O my God O my Love I renounce and detest and bewail as odious and offensive to thee as directly opposite to thy Love and to thy Glory All self-love and inordinate love of things below All wilfull and affected ignorance All Atheism or having no God and Polytheism or having more Gods than one All Heresie Apostasie and Infidelity All presumption and despair distrust and carnal security All voluntary humility and worshipping of Angels Reliance on the creature or recourse to evil spirits All unthankfulness and irreligion lukewarmness and indifference All impenitence and disregard of divine wrath All indevotion and pride disobedience impatience and murmuring All the least tendencies to any of these Impieties From all these and the like
Greatness and make them signal instruments of thy Glory and examples of thy Love O my God give grace to me and all my fellow-subjects next to thy own infinite self to love and honour to fear and obey our Sovereign Lord the King thy own Vicegerent for Conscience sake and for thy own sake who hast placed Him over us O may we ever faithfully render Him his due tribute O may we ever pray for His prosperity sacrifice our fortunes and our lives in His defence and be always ready rather to suffer than resist Glory be to thee O Lord who hast ordained Pastours and hast given them the Power of the Keys to be our Ecclesiastical Parents to watch over our Souls to instruct us in saving Knowledge to guide us by their Examples to pray for and to bless us to administer spiritual discipline in thy Church and to manage all the conveyances of thy Divine Love O my God for thy Love's sake let me ever honour and love the Ministers of thy Love the Ambassadours thou dost send in thy stead to beseech us sinners to be reconciled to thee to offer thy Enemies conditions of Love of love eternal O may I ever hear them attentively practise their heavenly doctrine imitate their holy examples pay them their dues and revere their censures O my God for the sake of thy love grant I may ever love and provide for my Servants servant and may treat them like Brethren let me never exact from them immoderate work O may I always give them just wages and equitable commands and good example and mercifull correction Grant Lord I may daily allow them time for their prayers indulge them due refreshments and may take care of their souls and persuade them to love thee remembring that I also have a Master in Heaven Give me grace O my God for the sake of thy Love to honour and love and obey my Master and Mistress and to serve him her with diligence and faithfulness and readiness to please and to pray for him her them and whatever I doe to doe heartily as to thee O Lord and not to him her them O my God let thy love incline me to love and to honour all whom thou hast any way made my superiours sutably to their quality or age or gifts or learning or wisedom or gravity or goodness O my God grant that for thy sake I may ever love and honour all that are or have been instruments of thy love to me in doing me good O may I reverence my teachers be gratefull to my benefactours and may I have always a peculiar respect to my particular Pastour O my God let thy love engage me to love those whom thou hast obliged to love me to shew constancy and fidelity and sympathy and love and communicativeness to my Friend to be affectionate to my Brethren and Sisters to be kind and affable to my Equals condescending to my Inferiours to be all the possible ways I can universally helpfull and obliging and loving to all O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull Love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy Name that in all these and in all other possible instances of duty our lives may be continually employed to love thee and for thy sake to love our Neighbour and to excite our Neighbour to love thee The several Forms which contain the Duties of Parent and Child of Master and Servant c. are to be used by every one according as may sute with his Circumstances or as he stands in any of those Relations O my God O my Love I renounce and derest and bewaâ—l as odious and offensive to thee as directly opposite to thy love and the love of my neighbour for thy sake All dishonour to our Superiours in either despising them speaking evil of them or in irreverent behaviour All unnaturalness to Children All undutifulness or stubbornness or disobedience or disrespect to Parents All rebelling or reviling or murmuring against the King or against his Ministers All defrauding undervaluing or rejecting lawfull Pastours All Schism and contempt of their regular censures All falseness or negligence or refractariness to Masters or Mistresses All rudeness ingratitude treachery want of brotherly love and unfaithfulness All the least tendencies to any of these impieties From all these and the like hatefull violatious of thy love and of the love of my neighbour and from the vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and all faithfull people O my God O my Love I earnestly pray that thy love and the love of our neighbour may so prevail over our hearts that we may sadly lament and abhor all these abominations and may never more provoke thee Glory be to thee O Lord who to teach us the importance of this duty of subjection hast placed it the first of all the second Table of all that relate to our neighbour and hast made it the first Commandment with a promise to every soul that conscientiously keeps it that thy days shall be â—â—ng in the â—and which the Lord thy God giveth thee Who would not love and obey thee O my God and for thy sake his Superiours when thou hast promised to reward our Duty with a long happy life here or if thou seest it best for us and to take us away from the evil to come by living a long tract of Holiness in a little time and at last by prolonging our bliss to all eternity in Heaven for which gratious promise all love all glory be to thee The Sixth Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce and detest and bewail as odious and offensive to thee as directly opposite to thy love and to the love of my neighbour for thy sake All duels and unlawfull War All doing hurt to the body and life of my neighbour directly by wounding or murthering him Indirectly by contriving or employing others to harm him All the ways of procuring Abortion All malice and envy hatred and revenge contention and cruelty All injury and violence all rash causeless immoderate or implacable anger or contumelious speaking and reviling All wilfull vexing grieving or disquieting him All threatning ill-wishes or curses All needless endangering our selves and self-murther All murthering of Souls by encouraging ensuaring tempting commanding them to sin All the least tendencies to any of these impieties From all these and the like c. O my God O my Love let thy unwearied and tender love to me make my love unwearied and tender to my neighbour and zealous to procure promote and preserve his health and safety and happiness and life that he may be the better able to serve and to love thee O my God O my Love make me like thy own self all meekness and benignity
and the wants of all faithful People which I 〈◊〉 up in the words of thy own beloved Son Our Father which art in Heaven c. After the like manner you may pray at night Evening Prayer Glory be to thee O Lord for my preservation and for all the Blessings of the day past for which all love all praise be to thee Father forgive me all the sins I have this day committed either in thought or word or deed either against thee or against my neighbor for the sake of Iesus my Saviour Amen Amen It grieves me O merciful God that I should daily offend thee But I repent O pitty and pardon me for the sake of Iesus thy Beloved Amen Amen O my God keep and protect and bless me this night and preserve me from sin and danger for the sake of Iesus Amen Amen Lord refresh me this night with seasonable sleep that I may rise the next morning more fit and able to serve thee in my Calling for the sake of Iesus thy Beloved Amen Amen I believe in God the Father c. All love all glory be to thee our God the Father who c. as in the Morning I desire thee O Lord God O Heavenly Father who art the Giver of all goodness to send thy Grace unto me and to my Wife and Children to my Husband and Children Father and Mother Brethren and Sisters Kindred and Friends Master and Mistris you must name these Relations according as you stand related and to all people that we may worship thee serve thee and obey thee as we ought to do And I pray unto thee that thou would'st send us all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies and that thou wilt be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins and that it will please thee to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that thou wilt keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this I trust thou wilt do of thy meecy and goodness through our Lord Iesus Christ. Amen Lord so be it Lord hear me help me pardon my failings supply all my wants and the wants of all for whom I pray which I sum up in the words of thy own beloved Son Our Father which art in Heaven c. As you are going to bed say I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou Lord only that makest me dwell in safety Psal. 4.9 As you began the day so end it with glorifying God and when you are in bed say Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost three Persons and one God blessed for evermore All praise all love be to thee I earnestly beg of God to make you sensible your selves and to give you grace to make your Children and Servants sensible also how Necessary and Happy and Heavenly a Duty Prayer is and how many exceeding great precious Promises God has made to those that devoutly pray to him and if you are thus sensible you will not content your selves with Morning and Evening Prayer onely but you will be desirous if you have Opportunity to retire about Mid-day for a few Minutes that you may imitate the Devotion of Holy David and of Daniel and pray three times a day Dan. 6.10 and that you may not want a help for Noon tide Prayer the Catechism shall supply you Prayer at Noon At evening and at morning and at noon-day will I pray and that instantly Lord hear my voice Psal. 55.19 Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end Amen All love all glory be to thee O God the Father who hast first loved us and hast given thy beloved Son to die for our Sins and to rise again for our Iustification Have mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences Wash me throughly from my wickedness and cleanse me from my sin Make me a clean heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me for the sake of Iesus thy Beloved Amen O Lord God who seest I am not able of my self to walk in thy Commandments and to serve thee be pleased to help and strengthen me by thy special Grace that I may daily and sincerely perform my duty towards thee and my duty towards my neighbor for the sake of Iesus my Saviour Amen O my God give me grace to believe in thee and to love thee with all my heart with all my mind with all my soul and with all my strength to worship thee to give thee thanks to put my whole trust in thee to call upon thee to honor thy holy Name and thy Word and to serve thee truly all the days of my life for the sake of Iesus thy Beloved Amen O my God give me grace to love my neighbor as my self to do to all men as I would they should do to me to love honor and succor my Father and Mother this clause must be left out if your Father and Mother be dead to honor and obey the King and all that are put in Authority under him to submit my self to all my Governors Teachers Spiritual Pastors and Masters to order my sâ—â—f lowly and reverently to all my betters to hurt no body by word or deed to be true and just in all my dealing to bear no malice nor hatred in my heart to keep my hands from picking and stealing and my tongue from evil speaking lying and slandering to keep my body in temperance soberness and chastity not to covet or desire other mens goods but to learn and labor truly to get mine own living and to do my duty in that state of life unto which it has pleased thee to call me for the sake of Iesus thy Beloved Amen Lord hear me help me pardon my failings supply all my wants which I sum up in the words of thy Beloved Son Our Father which art in Heaven c. Instead of these two last Prayers you may sometimes say the Ten Commandments which you may turn into a very good Prayer by saying after every one Lord have mercy upon me and incline my heart to keep this Law Where you not onely beg pardon for the sins you have committed against each Commandment but you also beg Grace to keep it At the end of them you may say Lord have mercy upon me and write all these thy Laws in my heart I beseech thee And so conclude with the Lords Prayer Do not think that this Practice of Prayer will be too hard or too long for young persons or for labouring people for if you cannot say them all say as much as you can or if you are at Day Labour or have not time or convenience to say them offer up to God two or three hearty Ejaculations in their place But
all goodness and sweetness all gentleness and long-suffering Fill me full of good wishes and compassion of liberality in Alms-giving according to my abilities and of readiness to succour and relieve and comfort and rescue and pray for all whom thy love or their own necessities or miseries or dangers recommend to my charity O let thy love thou God of Love make me peacefull and reconcilable always ready to return good for evil to repay injuries with kindness and easie to forgive unless in those instances where the impunity of the criminal would be injustice or cruelty to the publick O thou lover of Souls let thy love raise in me a compassionate zeal to save the life the eternal life of Souls and by fraternal and affectionate and seasonable advice or exhortation or correptions to reclaim the wicked and to win them to love thee O my God O my Love let thy All-powerfull love c. as p. 51. The Seventh Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce c. as p. 52. All adultery and violations of my neighbour's bed in the gross act robbing him of that he loves best All adultery and unchastity of the eye or the hand All the kinds and degrees of lust fornication pollution of our own bodies and works of darkness which it is a shame to mention All things that provoke or feed lust impure company discourse songs books or pictures All lascivious dresses or dances or plays all idleness or luxurious diet All the excesses or abuses of lawfull Marriage all unreasonable jealousies and all things that lessen the mutual kindness or alienate the affections of those that are married All the least tendencies to any of these impurities From all these c. as p. 52. O my God my Love let thy purest love who art Purity it self create in me a perfect abhorrence of all impurity that I may purifie my self as thou Lord art pure I know O Lord that I can never be partaker of the Divine Nature unless I escape the pollution that is in the world through lust O do thou therefore cleanse me from all filthiness of flesh and spirit that I may perfect holiness in thy fear Give me grace to possess my vessel in sanctification and honour and to keep thy Temple holy that thy Spirit of Love may always there inhabit O my God let my love be chast to thee chast to my self chast to my neighbour O my God may thy Love set a strict guard on my Senses turn away mine eyes stop mine ears bridle my tongue and restrain my hand from all uncleanness Lord give me grace to fly all incitements or opportunities or instruments of defiling either my neighbour or my self To beat down my body and to bring it into subjection O my Love let me live ever watching or praying or profitably employ'd or busied in thy love that I may leave no room if possible for any unclean Spirit to enter into my Soul and tempt me O my God O my Love let thy all-powerfull love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that profess thy Name that in all these and in all other possible instances of duty our lives may be continually employ'd to love thee and for thy sake to love our neighbour and to excite our neighbour to love thee O thou God of Love who hast ordain'd the marriage state for the cure of our passion and the comfort of our life and hast made it the embleme of that Divine Love and Union thou art pleas'd to bear towards thy Church Let the force of thy mystical love teach us to love each other and both of us to love thee O thou who hast made us one flesh make us but one Soul also let our love be mutual constant and inviolate full of compliance and condescensions and Sympathy and forbearance towards each other Fill us O God of Love with reciprocal care and zeal and charity for each others happiness temporal and eternal and with a delight in each other exclusive of all loves but thine Lord give us grace to keep our marriage always honourable and our bed undefiled let the affectionate authority of the one and the submissive sweetness of the other produce an entire friendship and harmony of dispositions and fervent intercessions for each other Give us O Lord an unafflicting foresight of our parting here and a passionate longing to be beatified near each other in neighbouring mansions above that from thenceforth our love to each other and to thee may be coeternal with thine The Eighth Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce as p. 52. All kinds of stealing by open Robbery Violence or Invasion All Oppression or Extortion or Rapine vexatious Law-suits or griping Usury All fraud in Trade and Contracts false Weights and Measures and Coin All concealing the defects of our own Goods or depretiating those of our neighbour All making haste to be rich or taking advantage of the ignorance or necessity of the persons we deal with All withholding our neighbours dues or detaining the hire of the Labourer All borrowing and not paying injurious keeping the goods of others and refusing to make restitution All bâ—each of Trust or removing Land-marks wastfull prodigality avaritious gaming or idle begging All outrages to the Fatherless the Widow and the Stranger All the least tendencies to any of the these acts of injustice From all these and the like hatefull violations of thy Love and of the Love of my neighbour and from the vengeance they justly deserve O my God O my Love deliver me and all faithfull people O my God O my Love let the love of thy eternal and amiable justice teach me a steddy justice in giving all men their due since I cannot love my neighbour if I am unjust to him Lord give me grace to use my neighbour as my friend as my self to buy and sell by just Weights and Measures and to be content with moderate gain To pay debts and wages and conscientiously to make restitution for injuries or wrongs or for goods unlawfully gotten Teach me O my God to use this world so as not to abuse it to receive and manage all thy temporal blessings with thankfulness to thee sobriety to my self and charity to all besides Make me ever O my God upright and faithfull in Trusts and Trade and Agreements diligent and honest in my station and Calling and according to my ability willing to lend and remit to my poor neighbours Whenever O my God I am forc'd to go to Law O let me ever contend more for right than victory and in all prosecutions preserve a charitable and an equitable disposition O my God O my Love let thy all-powerfull love abound in my heart and in the hearts of all that
profess thy Name that in all these and all other possible instances of duty our lives may be continually employ'd to love thee and for thy sake to love our neighbour and to excite our neighbour to love thee The Ninth Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce as p. 52. All manner of bearing false Witness against my Neighbour All false accusations or glosses or pleadings or testimonies or sentences in Courts of Judicature by concealing or overspeaking or perverting right and truth All things prejudicial or destructive to my neighbours good name All censoriousness and slander detraction and calumny forc'd consequences or invidious reflexions All scoffing or exposing the infirmities of others All whispering and tale-bearing or raising of evil reports suspicions or jealousies and all evil-speaking All equivocations and dissembling flattery and lying All the least tendencies to any of these injurious falshoods From all these and the like hatefull violations of thy love and of the love c. as page 52. O my God O my Love who dost love truth and dost hate a lie as perfectly Diabolical instill into my Soul an unalterable love of truth that nothing may tempt me to deviate from an intire veracity in my whole conversation or become a liar which thy Soul abhors O Lord give me grace ever to speak the truth and let my heart and my tongue always go together O my God give me grace to be tender of my neighbour's good name since I cannot love him if I take that from him which I know to be most dear to him Grant O my God for the sake of thy own love that I may be always ready to vindicate my neighbour's good name on all occasions that I may judge the best and speak well of him and conceal or excuse his infirmities that I may be impatient to hear slow to believe and unwilling to propagate evil reports that I may put candid interpretations on his actions since the more he is defamed the less able he is to serve thee the less credit he has to perswade others to love thee O my God O my love let thy c. as page 51. The Tenth Commandment O my God O my Love I renounce as p. 51. All the inordinate desire of what is my neighbour's All coveting his House or Wife or Servant or Maid or Ox or Ass or any thing that is his All discontentedness with my worldly condition and worldly solicitude All covetousness or repining at the happiness of others All taking pleasure in sin or complacence in past impurities All the first motions all the least tendencies to concupiscence From all these and the like hatefull c. as p. 52. O my God O my Love thou art the great searcher of hearts and dost not onely require outward acts of duty but the inward disposition of the heart the heart is the chief sacrifice thou requirest the heart is the proper seat of thy love and my heart I wholly devote to thee O my God create in me a clean heart that the fountain of action being clean the streams may run clean also Give me a heart O thou who onely canst change the heart entirely turn'd to thee that may suppress and resist all the first springings of Lust before they shoot up into consent approbation and desire before lust conceiving brings forth sin Lord make me contented and thankfull and well-pleased with that portion thy providential love has allotted me and to acquiesce in thy choice as best for me O great Lord of hearts lodge my neighbour in my heart next to my self let all my desires be for his good and let it be the subject of my joy and praise and love to see thy love liberal to him to see him abounding in thy blessings O my God my love what can a Soul enamour'd of thee ever desire but thee O let the world never more have place in my heart all my affections I withdraw from that to fix on thee Forgive me O my God if I am unmeasurably ambitious it is onely of thy favour forgive me if I am unsatiably covetous it is onely of thy fruition forgive me if I am perpetually discontented it is onely because I cannot love thee more O unconceivable happiness of Heaven where my Ambition shall rest on a Throne where my Covetousness shall be filled with the â—eartifick Vision and where I shall be eternally satisfied with love O my God O my Love let thy c. as page 51. Q. My good child know this that thou art not able to do these things of thy self nor to walk in the Commandments of God and to serve him without his special grace which thou must learn at all times to call for by diligent Prayer Let me hear therefore if thou canst say the Lords Prayer A. Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our daily bread And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us And lead us not into temptation But deliver us from evil Amen Q. What desirest thou of God in this prayer A. I desire my Lord God our heavenly Father who is the giver of all goodness to send his grace unto me and to all people that we may worship him serve him and obey him as we ought to do And I pray unto God that he will send us all things that be needful both for our souls and bodies And that he will be merciful unto us and forgive us our sins and that it will please him to save and defend us in all dangers ghostly and bodily and that he will keep us from all sin and wickedness and from our ghostly enemy and from everlasting death And this I trust he will do of his mercy and goodness through our Lord Iesus Christ. And therefore I say Amen So be it O infinite Lord it is my duty and my happiness to love thee but alas my own sad experience teaches me how little able I am to love Ah Lord there is a dark cloud of Ignorance spread over my Soul that intercepts thy beams I cannot clearly see I cannot fully know how lovely thou art Ah Lord when ever any gleams of thy loveliness break in upon my Spirit and attract my will a crowd of strange Loves importune and tempt me to wander after them Since O my God I can of my self neither know nor love thee since I cannot by my own strength do those things thou requirest nor walk in thy Commandments nor serve thee nor think so much as one good thought whither can I fly but only to thy free and unbounded love Thou art my hope my help and my salvation thou only canst teach and enable me to know and to love thy own goodness By thy special Grace
19.1 Psal. 129.3 y Mat. 27.28 29. z Mar. 15.19 a Mat. 27.24 26. His Crucifixion b Iohn 19.17 c Mat. 27.32 d Mat. 27.38 e Psal. 69.21 f Mat. 27.39 Luke 23.39 g Gal. 3.13 h Isa. 53.6 His Death i Luke 23.46 k Iohn 19.30 l Mat. 27.51 His unknown Sufferings m Mat. 27.46 n Isa. 63.3 o Isa. 53.6 10. p Lam. 1.12 q Gal. 3.13 r Heb. 2.14 15. s Rom. 6.14 t 1 Thess. 1.10 v Eph. 1.7 Heb. 9.12 15. x 1 Iohn 4.19 y Heb. 9.28 z Phil. 2.7 a Acts 20.28 b 1 Iohn 4.8 c Gal. 2.20.6.14 d 1 Cor. 2.2 e Phil. 3.8 f Luke 9.23 g Rom. 6.6 Gal. 5.24 h Acts 21.13 i 1 Pet. 2.21 His Burial and descent k Ioh. 19.34 l Mat. 27.57 60. m Eph. 4.9 n Heb. 2.9 o 1 Cor. 15.55 56 57. p Col. 2.15 In his state of Exaltation His Resurrection q Luke 24.26 27. Mat. 12.40 r Ioh. 2.19 s Acts 2.31 t Ioh. 16.22 His Ascension v Luk. 24.51 Acts 1.9 10. x Ioh. 14.2 y Eph. 4.8 z Ioh 10.7 a Heb. 6.19 20.10.20 21. b Psal. 73.25 His Session c 1 Pet. 3.22 d Rev. 5.8 9 12. f Rom. 8.34 His coming to Iudgment f Acts 1.11 Phil. 3.20 g 2 Thess. 1.7 h 1 Cor. 15.52 i Rom. 14.10 Matt. 12.36 Rev. 20.12 k Eccles. 12.13 14. l Ioh. 5.22 The Third Person in the Trinity m 2 Cor. 3-17 18. n Ioh. 4.24 Acts 5.3 o Heb. 9.14 p 1 Cor. 2.10 q Matt. 10.20 Rom. 8.9 r Ioh. 14.26.16.7 s 1 Pet. 1.15 t Gal. 5.22 v Ioh. 3.5 x Luk. 11.13 y Rom. 5.5 z 1 Cor. 6.19 Our Belief of the Church 1. Militant It s Nature a Matt. 16.18 Eph. 5.25 b Col. 1.18 c Matt. 28.19 d 26.26 e Matt. 18.18 Ioh. 20.22 23. f Acts 2.41 42 g Iude 3. h 2 Tim. 1.9 i 2 Tim. 2.19 k Matt. 13.24 l Matt. 16.18 Matt. 28.20 m Matt. 28.19 n Ioh. 16.13 Communion o 1 Ioh. 1.7 p Acts 2.42 46. q Gal. 6.10 r Rom. 12 9 c. 1 Thess. 5.14 Heb. 10.25 s 1 Cor. 12.13.26 t Psal. 122.6 v Heb. 12.22 x Heb. 1.14 y Psal. 34.7 z 1 Ioh. 1.3 Phil. 2.1 Reconciliation with God a Mar. 2.7 b 1 Ioh. 1.9 c 3 Tit. 4.5 d 1 Pet. 1 18. e Rom. 5.8 10. f Rom. 5. â— 2 Triumphant Resurrection g 1 Cor. 15.20 Iohn 5.28 29. h 1 Cor. 15.54 i Iob. 19.26 k 1 Cor. 15.53 Phil. 3.21 Happiness eternal l Matt. 25.41 * Rev. 14.10 11 m 1 Ioh. 3.2 1 Cor. 13.12 n 1 Pet. 1.4 o Rev. 21.4 p Mat. 29.34 The Fruits of Love q Iohn 14.15 Rules for expounding the Commandments r 2 Cor. 6.14 s Mat. 5.21 22 28. 1 Thess. 5.22 t Heb. 10.24 Mat. 5.16 v Prov. 24.16 x 2 Cor. 8.12 y Psal. 119.2.6.112 z Gen. 17.7 Deut. 26.17 Exod. 19.5 6. Psal. 1â—9 24.97 The First Table b Luke 14.26 â—â—â—ies comâ—â—nded c Mat. 6.24 d Deut. 1â— 12 e Ioh. 17.3 f Heb. 11.1.6 g 1 Pet. 1.4 h Ps. 9.10 i Psal. 34.8 k Ps. 62.1.2 5. l Psal. 42.1 m 37.4 n 34.1 o 147.1 p 99.5 q 1 Cor. 10.31 r Ezek. 18.20 s Ps. 112.2 t Iam. 5.16 v Ps. 115.1 w Mat. 7 2â— x Ps. 39.9 y Mat. 26.39 z Phil. 1.9 a Ps. 34.3.107.8 Sins forbidden b 2 Tim. 3.2 c 1 Iohn 2.15 d 2 Thes. 1.8 e Ps. 14.1 f Ier. 16.11 g 2 Pet. 2.1 h Heb. 10.39 i 2 Thess. 2.12 k Ps. 50.21 l Mat. 27.5 m Ps. 78.22 n Eccl. 8.11 o Col. 2.18 p Ps. 52.7 q Lev. 20.6 r 2 Tim. 3.2 s Ps. 10.4 t Rev. 3.15 16. v Zeph. 1.12 w Luke 19.41 x Isa. 5.12 y Isa. 29.13 z Pro. 8.13 a Rom. 2.8 b 1 Cor. 10.10 c Ps. 141.4 Sins forbidden a Deut. 7.25 26.27.15 b Deut. 4.15 Isa. 40.18 Act. 17.29 c Isa. 2.8 9 d Rev. 19 10.14.9 10. e Prov. 2â— 25 f Mat. 21.13 g Mat. 13 15. Iam. 1.22 h Luke 1â— 16. i Ier. 10. â—â—3 k Deut. 4. â— Ps. 106 3â—â— l Eccles. 5. â—â— Mal. 1.7 â— 14. m Mat. 1â— 9 11. n Isa. 45.23 Duties commanded o Isa. 8 1â— p Ioh. 4 2â— q Ps. 95. â— Mat. 26.3 r Gen. 28.17 Iohn 2.17 s Psal. 84.1 c. 48.9.36.8.63.1 2 5. t Luk. 8.15 1 Thess. 2.13 y Mat. 10.40 w Lev. 19.30 x Ezek. 22.8 26. y 1 Cor. 14.4.26.40 The reason of the Commandment z Deut. 4.24 Isa. 42.8 Exod. 34.14 15. a Ps. 79.5 b Isa. 65.6 7. Ezek. 18.17 20. Ier. 31.30 c Deut. 7.10 d 1 Iohn 3.8 Rom. 1.30 Ioh. 15.18 e Deut. 4.40 Duties commanded a Psal. 83.18 b Psal. 5.11 Psal. 29.2.72 19. Ezek. 36.23 Neh. 9.5 c Psal. 111 9. d Isa. 12.4 â—8 1 e Psal. 51.15 f Mat. 5.16 g Mat. 10.32 1 Pet. 3.15 h 1 Kings 19.10 i 1 Cor. 10.31 The honour of God's Name is more particularly concern'd in Oaths k Gen. 31.50.53 l Deut. 6.13 m Heb. 6.16 n Ier. 42. o Psal. 15.4 2 Sam. 21.7 And in Vows p Eccles. 5.4 5. q Gen. 28.20 21 22. r Num. 30.5 8. s Psal. 132.2 t Psal. 61.8 Sins forbidden v Deut. 28.58 x Psal. 139.20 y Deut. 18.10 11 12. z Psal. 10.11 13.50.21 a Iames 2.7 Lev. 24.16 b Tit. 1.16 c Iohn 12.42 d Psal. 139.21 e Matt. 5.34 35 36 37. f Zach. 8.17.5.4 Ier. 23.10 Hos. 4.2 3. g Mal. 1.14 Ier. 44.25 h Psal. 22.25 The Threat annext to the Commandment i Psal. 74.10 18 22 23. k Isa. 52.5 l 1 Iohn 4.8 Duties commanded m Isa. 58.13 n Iosh. 24.15 o Prov. 12.10 p 2 Acts 1. q Mar. 3.4 r Col. 2 16.17 s Heb. 4.9 t Ps. 42.4 Isa. 58.6 7.8.10 Reason of the Commandment v Gen. 2.2 x Acts 20.7 1 Cor. 16.2 y Rev. 1.10 z Luke 24.1 a Mat. 5.20 b Phil. 1.9 Sins forbidden c Ezek. 20.13 16 24. d Mark 2.24 Luke 6.7 e Neh. 13.15 f Deut. 12.7 g Luke 13.15 h Deut. 6.12.8.14 The Second Table i Luke 10.29 30. k 1 Pet. 2.17 l Mat. 7.12 m 1 Ioh. 3.18 n Col. 3.12 o Eph. 5.29 p Luke 6.36 Duties commanded in general a 1 Pet. 2.17 In particular Of Natural Parents b Deut. 6.6 7. Ephes. 6.4 Col. 3.21 2 Cor. 12.14 Of Children c Ephes. 6.1 2 3. Col. 3.20 d Matt. 16.4 c. Of Political Parents The King e Prov. 8.15 f 1 Tim. 2.1 2. The Queen and Royal Family Of Subjects g Rom. 13.1 c. 1 Pet. 2.13 Tit. 3.1 Of Ecclesiastical Parents h Mal. 2.7 Of the People under their care i 2 Cor. 5.20 k Heb. 13.7 17. 1 Tim. 5.17 Of Oeconomical Parents Master and Mistress l Col. 4.1 Ephes. 6.9 Of Servants m 1 Tim. 6.1 2. Col. 3.22 23 24. Eph. 6.5 6 7 8. Of other Superiours n Lev. 19.32 1 Tim. 5.1 2 3. 1 Pet. 5.5 o Gal. 6.6 Of Equals and Inferiours p Rom. 14.10 1