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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37049	A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.	1675 (1675)	Wing D2822; ESTC R19881	403,531	522

one that believeth which doth as a School-master lead to Him by discovering the holy nature and will of God and mens duty to walk conformly to it by convincing of the most sinful pollution of our nature heart and life of universal disconformity to it and innumerable transgressions of it of the obligation to the wrath and curse of God because of the s ●me of utter inability to keep it and to help our selves out of this sinful and wrathful estate by humbling under the conviction and sense of both by putting-on to the Renunciation of self-righteousness or righteousness according to this Law And finally by convincing of the absolute and indispensable necessity of an other righteousness and so of this imputed righteousness the law that is so very necessary to all men in common and to every Regenerate and unregenerate man in particular from which ere one jote or title can pass unfulfilled Heaven and Earth must pass and which the Prince of Pastors infinitely skilful to pitch pertinent subjects of Preaching amongst many others made choice of to be a main subject of that solemn Sermon of his on the Mount wherein he did not as many would have expected soar alost in abstruse contemplations but graciously stooped and condescended to our capacity for catching of us by a plain familiar and practical exposition of the Commands as indeed Religion lyeth not in high-flown notions and curious speculations nor in great swellings of words but in the single and sedulous practise of these things that are generally looked on as more low and common as the great art of Preaching lyeth in the powerful pressing thereof insinuating of how much moment the right understanding of them is and how much Religion lyeth in the serious study of suitable obedience thereto not in order to justification but for glorifying God who justifieth freely by his grace through the Redemption that is in Jesus without which Obedience or holiness no man shall see the Lord. And if the Treatise bear but any tolerable proportion to such a Text and Theam it cannot but have its own excellency and that thou maist be induced to think it doth I shall need only to tell thee that it is though alass poschumous and for any thing I know never by him inten ●ed for the Press otherwise it had been much more full for he is much shorter on the commands of the second Table then on these of the first touching only on some chief heads not judging it sit belike at that time and in that exercise to wit Sabbath-day-morning-Lectures before Sermon to dwell long on that subject which a particular prosecution would have necessitated him to especially since he was at that same time to the same auditory Preaching ●abbath-afternoo ● 〈◊〉 the third chapter of the Epistle to the Colossians a subject much of the 〈◊〉 na ●ure but what he saith is material and excellent great Mr. L ●●hams who had some excellency peculiar to himself in 〈◊〉 s ●●k ● or writ as appeareth by his singular and some way-S ●r ●ph ●k 〈◊〉 on the Revelation wherein with Aquiline-sharp-s ●gh ●●d ●●s ● f ●om the ●●p of the high mountain of fellowship with God h ●●ath d ●●ply p ●y ●d into and struck up a great light in several myster ●●● 〈◊〉 ●uch hid even from many wise and sagacious men before And by his most sweet and savoury yet most solid exposition of the Song of Solomon smelling strong of more than ordinary acquaintance with and experience of those several influxes of the love of Jesus Christ upon the Soul and effluxes of its love the fruit and eff ●ct of His towards Him wherewith that delightful discourse is richly as it were imbroydered The greatest realities though indeed sublime spiritualities most plainly asserted by God and most powerfully experienced by the Godly whose Souls are more livelily affected with them than their very external senses are by the rarest and most remarkable objects and no wonder since every thing the more spiritual it is hath in it the greater reality and worketh the more strongly and effica ●iously however of late by an unparallelledly-bold black-mouthed blasphemous Scribler n ●fariously nick-named Fine Romances of the secret Amours betwixt the Lord Christ and the believing Soul told by the Non-conformists-preachers What are these and the like Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for his love is better than Wine Thy name is as an Oyntment pour ●d forth therefore the Virgins love thee We will remember thy love more than Wine the upright love thee Behold thou art fair my beloved yea pleasant also our bed is green A bundle of myr ●h is my beloved unto me he shall lye all night betwixt my breasts I sat down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sw ●●t to my taste He brought me to the Banqueting-house and his B ●●●●r over me was love Stay me with Flagons comfort me with 〈◊〉 for I am sick of love His left hand is under my head and his right hand doth imbrace me My beloved is mine and I am his I am my beloveds and his desire is towards me I found him whom my Soul loved I held him and would not let him go Set me as a seal upon thy heart and as a seal on thine arm Love is strong as death many waters cannot quench love neither can the ●●oods drown it I charge you O Daughters of Jerusalem if ye find my beloved that ye tell him I am sick of love Come my beloved let us go up early to the Vine-yards let us see if the Vines flourish there will I g ●ve the my loves make hast my beloved and be thou like to a Roe or to a young Heart on the Mountains of Spices How fair and how pleasant art thou O love for delights O my Dove let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely thou hast ravished my heart my Sister my Spouse with one of thine eyes with one chain of thy neck turn away thine eyes from me for they have overcome me He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and manifest my self to him If any man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him As the Father hath loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love If ye keep my Commandements ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers Commandements and abide in his love The love of Christ constraineth us we love him because he first loved us the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost given unto us whom having not seen ye love and whom though now ye see him not yet believing ye rejoyce with joy unspakable and full of glory That ye may with all Saints be able to comprehend what is the

their most unnatural and cursed cutting their hair should every hour fear and tremble lest they bring it on their own heads and amongst us in this Kingdom It is also worthy the noticing that Tertullian hath to this purpose in his Book de cultu mul. cap. 7 where having expostulated with Christian women for their various vain dressings of the hair he bespeaks them thus Drive away this bondage of busking from a free head in vain do you labour to appear thus dressed in vain do ye make use of the most expert frizlers of hair God commands you to be covered and vailed I wish that I most miserable man may be priviledged to lift up my head if it were but amongst the feet of the people of God in that blessed day of Christians exalting gladness then will I see if ye will arise out of your Graves with that varnish and paint of white and red and with such a head-dress and if the Angels will carry you up so adorned and painted to meet Christ in the clouds And again cap. 13. These delights and toyes says he must be shaken off with the softness and loosness whereof the vertue and valour of faith may be weakned moreover I know not if these hands that are accustomed to be surrounded with rings and bracelets or such other ornaments will indure to be benummed and stupified with the hardness of a chain I know not if the legg after the use of such fine hose-garters will suffer it self to be streightned and pinched into fetters or a pair of stocks I am afraid that the neck accustomed to chains of Pearls and Emeralds will hardly admit of the two-handed Sword The ●efore O blessed women saith he let us meditate and dwell on the thoughts of hardship and we shall not feel it let us relinquish and abandon these delicacies and frolicks and we shall not desire them let us stand ready armed to incounter all violent assaults having nothing which we will be afraid to forego and part with These these are the stayes and ropes of the Anchor of our Hope Let your eyes be painted with shamef ●s ●●ess and quietness of spirit fastning in your ears the Word of God and tying about your necks the yoke of Christ subject your head to your Husbands and so shall you be abundantly adorned and comly Let your hands be exercised with wool let your feet keep at home and be fixed in the house and they wi ●l please much more then if they were all in gold cloath your selves with the silk of goodness and vertue with the fine linning of holiness with the purpure of chastity and being after this fashion painted and adorned ye will have God to be your Lover Which notably agreeth with what the Astles say 1 Tim. 2. v. 9 10. In like manner also that women adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefastness and sobriety not with broidered hair or gold or pearls or costly aray But which becometh women professing godliness with good works 1 Pet. 3.1 2 especially 3 4 5. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel But let it be the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price For after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves being in subjection unto their own husbands See also Tit. 2. v. 4 5. Next to what hath been said of dressing the body somewhat may not inappositly be spoke to anent dressing and decking of houses and beds and anent houshold furniture or plenishing wherein there may be an evil concupiscence and lust and an inordinate affection our minds being often by a little thing kindled and set on fire See to this purpose Prov. 7.17 where that woman spoken of hath first the attire of an whore then he saith her bed is dressed her tapestry and curtains provided in ●ense and perfumes are in the chambers So also beds of Ivory are reproved Amos 6.4 which are all used for entertaining the great lust of uncleanness which ordinarily hath these alluring extravegancies attending and waiting upon it O! what provision do some make for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof and how careful Caterers are they this way for their corruptions And certainly Christians are not in their houses more then in their persons left to live at random and without bounds and folks no doubt may be unsutable to their stations as much in the one as in the other This excess may be also in the light and wanton manner of adorning houses and buildings with filthy and immodest paintings pictures and statues and such like which with other things is spoken of and condemned Ezek. 23.14 But withal in what we have spoken in these excesses so incident even to professours we would not have folks too rigidly to expone us for we know that there are lawful recreations nor are honesty and comliness in behaviour and apparel blameable but to be commended in their place neither would we have any think that we suppose all such who do the things above censured to be incited to them from this principle of lust but for clearing of the matter further it would be considered 1. That we speak of these things as they are abused and particularly condemned in this Church 2. We would consider the end of the things themselves as they have been at first sinfully introduced whatever may be the innocent intention of a particular user 3. We vvould respect others vvho may be offended and provoked to lust by vvhat an actor is not provoked vvith and also may be sinfully tempted to the like from that example or if not so yet may possibly be induced to judge them vain vvho vvalk so and so in apparel light vvho dance c. vvhich vve vvould prevent and guard against 4. We vvould not only abstain from evil but from all appearance of it novv certainly all these things vve have spoken of look like ill and may breed misconstructions in others even possibly beyond our ovvn mind and intention vve may also consider the mind of very Heathens in reference to these things as also of Fathers Councels and the Divines vvhich are cited by Rivet and Martyr on this Command The Councel Laod. Can. 53. apud Bals. hath these vvords Let Christians when they go to marriages abstain from dancing but dine or sup And another saith Nemo ferè saltat sobrius nisi forte insanit no man almost danceth that is sober unless perchance he be in a fit of distraction or madness Neither doth Davids or Miriams dancing being used by them as a part of vvorship in the occasions of extraordinary exultations say any thing for the dancing that is novv in use as their Songs of praise to God used in these their dancings abundantly shevv And beside