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A54391 The whole duty of man, containing a practical table of the Ten commandments wherein the sins forbidden, and the duties commanded, or implied are clearly discovered / by famous Mr. Will. Perkins. Perkins, William, 1558-1602. 1674 (1674) Wing P1573; ESTC R222949 4,247 1

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The whole Duty of Man Containing a PRACTICAL TABLE of the TEN COMMANDMENTS Wherein the Sins forbidden and the Duties commanded or implied are clearly discovered by Famous Mr. Will. Perkins I. The first Commandment THou shalt have no other Gods before me In which Commandment note these two Affirmatives 1. That we must acknowledge God 2. We must acknowledge no other God but him And the love required from this God is To hear his Word willingly to speak and think of him frequently and to do his will chearfully to yield up body and soul for his Cause to delight in his presence and to bewail his absence to love and hate what he doth and to draw others to that love to rest upon his revealed Counsels and to call upon his name with affiance The Negative part of this Commandment is to acknowledge none other than the true God where note these things forbidden Ignorance of this God and of his will Atheism denying God or his Attributes of Justice Wisdom Providence Presence c. setting our hearts upon any other thing distrust in God exprest by impatient suffering despair of his truth exprest by Creature-confidence Riches Pleasures Physicians Self-love hates God declines his wayes flies from him the want of God's fear hardens the heart is carnally secure and will neither acknowledge God's Judgments nor his own sin II. The Second Commandment Thou shalt not make unto thee any Graven Image or any likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or that is in the Earth beneath or that is in the Water under the Earth Thou shalt not bow down thy self to them for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God visiting the Iniquity of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandments The Affirmative part of this Commandment is to worship God in Spirit and Truth wherein the ordinary means of God's Worship is commanded as calling upon his Name by humble Supplication hearty Thanksgiving by reading hearing talking and continual meditating on God's Word use of the Sacraments all this to be done holily as God's Word commands The Negative Part of this Commandment is neither to worship any false Gods nor the true God with false worship and here is forbidden any Image Similitude Likeness or Figure whatsoever for all Idols are lies and all the badges and monuments thereof or to worship the beast and receive his mark all hypocrisie is to be also avoided to make a glorious shew of serving God or to pry into others weakness and not mind our selves or to be more zealous for Tradition than Truth III. The third Commandment 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 The Affirmative Part of this Commandment is to be zealous of God's Glory above all things to use God's Titles only in serious affairs with all reverence to celebrate God's praise which shines in his Creatures To confirm the Truth by an Oath with the Invocation of God alone as a witness of Truth and revenger of a Lie The form of this Oath must be truly justly in Judgment whether publick or private We are also commanded to sanctifie God's Creatures as Meats Drinks Works Callings Marriage c. by the reverent use of his Holy Name for a blessing on or return of thanks for blessings received the Creatures being sanctified by the Word and Prayer The Negative Part of this Commandment is Perjury either lying unto God or vocation of God's Name to confirm a lye or to swear in common talk or to swear 〈◊〉 strange Gods blasphemy of and against God all cursing all use of God's name ●●●ly IV. The Fourth Commandment Remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God In it thou shalt not do any work Thou nor thy Son nor thy Daughter thy Man servant nor thy Maid servant nor thy Cattle nor thy Stranger that is within thy Gates For in six dayes 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 The Affirmative part of this Commandment is to cease from sin from the works of our ordinary callings and also to perform those spiritual duties which God requires Where in Preparation to the Sanctification of this day as Christ and the practice of the old Law were wont the Assemblies must be frequented God's word and his creatures meditated Works of charity the needy relieved the sick visited the faln admonished differences reconciled This blessed rest-Rest-day is a Type of that inward rest from sin and that blessed rest of the Saints eternally in Heaven The seventh day from the Creation is ceased and the Lord's day Sabbath confirm'd by his Resurrection and the Apostolical practice Things of present necessity as to preserve life or goods provision of meat or drink watering cattle curing diseases Voyages of Mariners Shepherds tending flocks or necessary employment of Physick The Negative part of this Commandment is not to pollute the Sabbath by works of our ordinary calling Fairs on this day all manner of Husbandry all scurrility of Jests Sports all manner of Prophaneness and Hypocrisie V. The Fifth Commandment Honour thy Father and thy Mother that thy dayes may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee The affirmative part of this Commandment is Reverence to the Aged obedience to all the lawful commands of Parents and relief of them in their need and to obey and pray for Superiours and all in Authority Superiours must be Examples of blameless life and rule in and for the Lord. Punishing great faults by correction and light faults by rebuke The Negative part of this Commandment is Contempt of Superiours disobedience to Parents also Parents cruelty to their Children either in correction threatning or provoking Servants are forbidden stubbornness deceitfulness running away and we are not to offend our Equals either in word or deed VI. The sixth Commandment Thou shalt not Kill The Affirmative part of this Commandment is to preserve our Neighbours wellfare both in Body and in Soul to help him in his streights to our utmost speedily and to share with him in his adversity to abstain from Anger and refrain from wrath to forgive injuries and rather to suffer than do wrong and to overcome evil with good by love to cover a multitude of evil To preserve the life of our Neighbour and to win his soul to the faith we must ive like Lights to direct and admonish offenders The Negative part of this Commandment is Hatred of our Neighbour unadvised Anger want of compassion frowardness desire of Revenge bitterness in speaking r●proach and Railing contentions brawlings exclaiming complaints malicious