Simplicity and singlenesse of heart without fraud or colour seruing truely for conscience sake rather then for feare or wages Ephes 6. 7. Tit. 1. 10. Gen. 24. 32. 33. Fourthly to bee carefull diligent and painefull for their Maisters good being therevnto called Gen. 31. 38. 39. 40. 41. Fifthly to be content with their calling 1. Cor. 7. 20. 21. 22. 23. Sixthly to submit themselues to the rebukes admonitions and corrections of their Maisters with all méeknesse of spirit 1. Pet. 2. 13. 18. Seuenthly Secreâ—â—e and counsell kéeping 2. Sam. 16. 3. Eightly to giue godly example by their Christian seruice to their prophane Maisters Titus 2. 9. Vices of Maisters forbidden First tyranizing ouer their seruants and oppressing them with cruell vsage Exodus 1 2 chap. Secondly not to instruct them in the knowledge of God and admonish to godlinesse as their brethren in Christ but to respect their bodies onely for labour as they do their beasts Thirdly to make them instruments of their malice reuenge or other corrupt lusts 1. Sam. 18. 22. c. 1. Sam. 19. 11. 1. Sam. 28. 7. 1. Sam. 22. 18. 2. Sam. 11. 4. 15. 16. 17. 2. Sam. 13. 28. 29. 1. King 21. 9. 10. 11. 2. Chron. 24. 20. 21. Dan. 3. 19. 20. Hest 3. 13. Mar. 6. 17. 27. Fourthly not to reward bountifully faithfull and good seruants Gen. 29. 25. 26. Gen. 31. 7. Fifthly after their long seruice not to acknowledge their deserts but to be discontentented and frowning that they might giue them nothing Deut. 15. 9. 10. Sixthly to rebuke and chasten them seuerely in their worldly businesses but otherwise to maintaine or winke at their folly Seuenthly to send away seruants or to stop their wages or not to seeke help for them in time of sicknesse Mark 8. 6. Eighthly to hide the mysteries of Trades from Apprentises Ninthly to let them do and say what they will so their worke be well done Vices of Seruants forbidden First Eye-seruice which is to shew dutifulnesse outwardly especially in their Maisters presence but not in singlenesse of heart nor of conscience Coloss 3. 22. Ephes 6. 5. 6. Tit. 2. 9. Secondly answering againe when they are reproued Tit. 2. 9. Thirdly filching picking and conueying away of their maisters goods by themselues or through the enticements of theeuish neighbours Tit. 2. 10. Philemon 11. Fourthly to refuse the authority correction of their Maisters Gen. 16. 6. Philem. Onesim Fifthly by negligence to become vnprofitable drones in their maisters seruice Sixthly to serue for wages rather then for conscience sake and for feare of punishment rather then for loue of God Rom. 13. 5. Seuenthly to discouer their Maisters infirmities or to hinder them any way in goods or good name 2. Sam. 16. 3. Eighthly to giue aduantage to their Maisters aduersaries through discouery of their counsell which is treacherie Math. 26. Iudas Ninthly not to maintain the good name of their Maisters being wrongfully ill spoken of Tenthly not to crosse hinder the mischieuous purposes of wicked maisters to their power lawfully 2. Sam. 17. 7. ad 15. 1. Sam. 20. 38 Eleuenthly to flatter and further their maisters in wickednesse for hope of preferment as Sauls followers did Twelfthly to tell lyes tales of any in the family or of others to their Maisters to make discord betwéene man and wife neighbors Thirtéenthly to obey their Maisters wicked commandements 1. Sam. 22. 18. Doeg Duties of Husbands towards their Wiues First to loue their wiues as their owne selues Ephes 5. 25. Coloss 3. 19. Secondly to reioyce and delight in their loue in the Lord which are the causes of chastity patience agréement Pro. 5. 18. Pro. 19. 20. Thirdly faithfulnesse in regard of body and goods It stands in two things 1 In forsaking all others and liuing onely with her to her and for her in the Lord Gen. 2. 24. Pro. 5. 9. 10. 11. 2 In prouiding for her and maintaining her without fraud according to his state 1. Tim. 5. 8. Fourthly to edifie his wife by instruction and good example 1. Cor. 14. 35. Fifthly to gouerne and serue his wife as the head doth the body 1. Cor. 7. 3. 4. 5. 1. Cor. 11. 12. Sixthly to dwell with her according to knowledge 1. Pet. 3. 7. It standeth in three things 1 In couering her infirmities by honouring her as the weaker vessell 1. Cor. 12. 23 c. 2 In accompting her his equall in Christ who regardeth neither seres nor persones 3 In discret behauiour that hee bee not hated nor despised but feared and reuerenced 1. Tim. 4. 12. Seuenthly to loue his wiues kinsfolkes Duties of Wiues First to bee subiect and obedient to their husbands 1. Pet. 3. 1. Col. 3. 18. Eph. 5. 21. 22. 24. 1. Pet. 3. 6. 1. Cor. 11. 7. Secondly to feare their husbands Ephes 5. 33. 1. Pet. 3. â— It standeth in two things 1 In loue Tit. 2. 4. 2 In reuerence Thirdly faithfulnesse in regard of body and goods Psal 45. 11. 12. It stands in two things 1 In forsaking all other and liuing onely with him to him and for him in the Lord Psal 45. 11. 12. 2 In helping to maintaine and increase his estate This helping stands in three things 1 In kéeping at home Titus 2. 5. 1. Tim. 5. 13. 2 In good huswifrie Pro. 31. 3 In meane and decent apparell 1. Tim. 2. 9. 10. 1. Pet. 3. 3. 4. 5. This meane stands in two things 1 In comelinesse not in costlinesse 1. Tim. 2. 10. 2 In the modest and chaste fashion of it 1. Pet. 3. 3. Esay 3. 16. Fourthly Silence 1. Tim. 5. 13. 1. Tim. 2. 11. 12. Fifthly to giue example of Christian conuersation 1. Pet. 3. 1. 1. Sam. 25. 3. Sixthly to loue their husbands knisfolkes Vices of Husbands forbidden First to vse their Wiues but as seruants for their worke as many inhumane niggards doe Secondly to preferre their seruants before their wiues as many leud worldlings do Thirdly to preferre riotous wanton and vnthrifty company before hers at home Fourthly iealousie Pro. 6. 34. Fifthly froward teasty and lumpish behauiour towards her 1. Sam. 25. 3. Sixthly light vaine and foolish behauiour which breedes contempt and shakes off the yoake of obedience Seuenthly indiscreet gouerning of her It stands in foure things 1 In despising the counsell of a wise and vertuous wife which is sometimes of better gouernment then the husband 1. Sam. 25. 11. 2 In being led by a foolish malicious or wicked wife and to giue too much earâ— to her words 1. King 21. 3 To depriue a good wife of conuenient maintenance Christian recreations and delights 4 In giuing too much liberty to an idle wanton or gadding huswife Eighthly to despise his wiues kinsfolkes Vices of Wiues forbidden First to despise their husbands 2. Sam. 6. 16. 23. Secondly disobedience to their husbands Hest 1. Thirdly vnreuerent behauiour towards their husbands these are the vices of proud stomachfull huswiues Fourthly idlenesse and wastfulnesse 1. Tim. 5.
knowledge of our sinne and misery and also of perfect holinesse and righteousnesse should come by the Law that so working guilt of sinne feare of iudgement and vtter despaire of life in the conscience wee might bee inforced to flie to Christ for succour and reliefe in this distressed estate and that being in Christ the sting of death which is sin and the strength of sinne which is the rigour of the Law îs abolished and is become the rule of Christian life and a Tree of life to them that eate thereof seeing I say it is thus let vs desire to eate of this Tree for the fruites thereof are not grieuous yea they are pleasant delightfull and more sweet then hony and the hony combe to the sanctified taste reuiuing and quickning the soule to eternall life For these causes did the Lord so strictly charge the Israelites to exercise themselues in his Lawes continually And that they might haue them in perfect remembrance aboue all things hee commandeth them to rehearse them continually to their children to write them vpon the posts of their houses and vpon their gates Deut. 11. 18. 19. and to weare fringes couered with a riband of blew silke on the borders of their garments for the same end Numb 18. â—9 that in all things in all places and at all times they might as an holy and peculiar people do the will of God and not their owne lusts as the Gentiles do Deut. 26. 17. 18. 19. Now although these and such like ceremonies be abolished yet the Law is euerlasting and giueth no more liberty of sinning to vs then vnto them yea hauing receiued greater measure of the Spirit of Adoption wee should more ioyfully and cheerefully performe all obedience then they that had but the spirit of bondage viz. who like children were held in awe with temporall threatnings and sharper outward punishments Let vs therefore which haue receiued the promises which they saw a farre of freely without constraint ingenuously and willingly as adopted sons reade heare talke and meditate in the Law continually and in steed of Iewish fringes ribands and Phylacteries fitter for children then men of perfect age let vs carry the Law ingrauen in the fleshy tables of our hearts And because the Law maketh but shallow impression in our stony hearts and is therefore quickly defaced and worne out with the rust of corruption wee haue need of daily meanes to cleanse purge and correct those furring vessels and so much the more because wee haue also corrupters and tempters without vs and about vs the world and the deuill that old deceitfull cauiller withdrawing and mis-leading vs in euery action and thought of the mind from the will of God to their owne lusts Now for thy more distinct knowledge and more spirituall and true vnderstanding of the Law for thy better direction in all matters and for thy furtherance in godlinesse and vertue in these latter euill daies wherein that wicked one 1. Ioh. 2. 14. so wonderfully hardneth the hearts of most men 2. Tim. 3. 1. I haue drawne an Exposition of the Commandements in such a forme and order with such breuity and fulnesse and with so many manifest proofes as that any man learned or vnlearned may reape great benefite thereby And seeing that it is easie for the price waighty for the matter and light for the carriage either in pocket or in thy bosome or in thy handes thinke it I pray thee no more trouble to thee then Fringes and Phylacteries Mat. 23. 5. were to the Iewes then Crosses and Crucifixes to the Papists who think hereby to scarre away deuils whereas indeed the deuils know where to take vp their Iunes and Lodgings by these whorish tokens markes Contrarily here thou hast God speaking plainely to thee and louingly instructing thee and informing thee as a father doth his sonne Thou hast heere a powerfull weapon euen the voyce of God to scarre away deuils and to reproue the wicked in all their vniust dealings Whatsoeuer men say iudge or do and howsoeuer the world swaggeth and reeleth as the spirit of the aire that worketh in the children of disobedience hales it from iniquity to iniquity Heere thou hast a firme Foundation and vnmoueable Rocke cleaue to this Rocke confidently and build therevpon without wauering so shalt thou abide for euer 1. Ioh. 2. 17. when others with their wisedomes shall come to naught 1. Cor. 2. 6. and with their vnfruitfull workes of darkenesse shall perish euerlastingly For they that haue done good as the Law of God informeth them shall go into life euerlasting and they that haue done euill shall go into euerlasting fire Thine in the Lord T. G. To the Christian Reader Grace and Peace GOOD Reader thou hast heere a small Treatise penned by a learned Diuine wherein is plainely laid downe the sense and meaning of euery Commandement both in the Negatiue and Affirmatiue part as well of Graces commanded as of sinnes forbidden confirmed with many pregnant proofes of Scripture wherein much is expressed in few words Which Treatise I haue pervsed and doe esteeme it very profitable especially for the vnlearned which desire knowledge and the rather because I know none that hath opened the Commandements so fully in this manner I commend it to thy diligent reading continuall remembrance and carefull practise and thee to the Grace of God and to his fauour in Christ Thine in the Lord Neuill Drant A Profitable and Familiar Exposition of the Commandements THE FIRST COMMANDEMENT Thou shalt haue none other Gods but mee THe occasion of this Commandement is our lusting after false Gods The principall vertues herein commanded are sixe First The knowledge of God Iohn 17. 2. Secondly The loue of God aboue all Deut. 6. 5. Fiue signes of the true loue of God 1 A pure heart a good conscience faith vnfeigned 1. Tim. 1. 5. 2 Our loue to his Word Ioh. 14. 5. of this there are two signes also first To loue them that loue it Psal 119. 63. secondly To draw others to loue it Deut. 6. 5. 6. 7. 3 Loue of our brethren 1. Iohn 4. 19. 20. 4 Reioying to thinke and talke of Christ more then any worldly thing Gal. 6. 14. 15. 5 Our loue to all things that pertaine to his seruice Psal 84. 1. 2. 3. Thirdly trust and affiance in God Ier. 17. 7. Fiue signes of true confidence in God 1 To seeke for the fauour and countenance of God aboue all worldly things Psal 4. 6. 7. Math. 6. 33. 2 Delight in the Lord. Ps 37. 4. 3 Hope in the Lord Ps 37. 35. 4 Cleauing alwaies to the Lord Iosh 23. 8. Act. 11. 23. 5 Comfort in the Lord in troubles 1. Sam. 30. 6. Fourthly Feare of God Ps 128. 1. Deut. 28. 59. 1. Sam. 12. 24. Two signes of the feare of God 1 To eschew euill Gen. 39. 9. Iob. 1. 1. 2 To do good Gen. 22. 12. Ps 112. 1. This feare is bred and preserued in vs by foure meanes
and to meddle euery man with his owne businesse 1. Thess 4. 11. Secondly a common Christian care one for another Phil. 2. 4. Thirdly euery man to estéeme other better then himselfe Phil. 2. 3. Rom. 12. 10. Fourthly to exhort one another in loue Heb. 3. 13. 1. Thess 5. 11. Fifthly to admonish them that are vnruly 1. Thess 5. 14. Gal. 6. 1. 2. Sixthly to be courteous tender-hearted and to forgiue one another Ephes 4. 32. Coloss 3. 12. 13. Vices of Equals forbidden First Contentiousnesse and medling of other mens matters Prou. 6. 19. Phil. 2. 3. 1. Thess 4. 11. 1. Cor. 6. 7. Pro. 26. 17. Secondly caring for none but themselues through couetousnesse and want of loue Phil. 2. 4. Thirdly in publicke businesses to aime at their owne profite and vaine-glorie 1. Thess 4. 6. Fourthly slandering back-biting and quarrell-picking Leu. 19. 16. Fifthly not to exhort admonish and reproue in loue them that offend Leu. 19. 17. Sixthly reuenge and wrong among neighbours Leuit. 19. 18. ver 13. 1. Cor. 6. 8. Seuenthly corrupt communication and filthy ieasting Ephes 4. 29. Ephes 5. 4. Eighthly dissembling lying and gripplenesse in bargaining 1. Thess 4. 6. A duty towards a mans selfe First A man must preserue and maintaine with modesty the dignity that is in his owne person Phil. 4. 8. Vices towards a mans selfe First through his naughty behauiour to obscure and almost extinguish those gifts which God hath giuen him Secondly to bee too wise in his owne conceite Rom. 12. 3. The sixth Commandement Thou shalt do no murther THe occasion of this Commandement is our impatiency and vncharitable desire of reuenge Sinnes forbidden This Commandement in generall forbiddeth all manner of cruelty in thought word and deed against our selues our neighbour and the creature 1 Cruelties against our selues I. To carke and care continually for the body but to neglect the life of the soule which is soule-murther Hos 4. 6. Prou. 10. 21. Iob 23. 12. II. All Intemperance III. Gluttony Rom. 13. 13. Gal. 5. 21. Heb. 12. 16. Luke 16. IIII. Drunkennesse Esay 5. 11. 12. 22. Gal. 5. 21. Ioel 1. 5. Hab. 2. 15. Rom. 13. 13. Gen. 9. 21. 22. Gen. 19. 33. 2. Sam. 13. 28. 1. King 16. 8. 9. 10. 1. Sam. 35. 36. Pro. 23. 29. V. Kéeping of company with intemperate persons Math. 24. 49. 1. Cor. 5. 11. VI. Excessiue care and toyling for worldly good Math. 6. 25. Prou. 17. 32. Eccles 4. 8. Luke 21. 3â— VII Excessiue pensiuenesse sorrow griefe and heauinesse 1. Thess 5. 16. VIII Vnthriftinesse and imporuident care for food and rayment Eccles 4. 5. 1. Tim. 5. 8. IX Idlenesse and slothfulnesse Pro. 6. 6. 11 Ezech. 16. 49. Pro. 12. 11. X. Enuy and wrath XI Violent murthering of ones selfe 1. Sam. 31. 4. 2. Sam. 17. 23. Math. 27. 6. 2 Cruelties against our neighbour I. To kill and slay the soule of our neighbour which is to bee an offence to him in life and doctrine Math. 18. 7. II. Not to Preach the Word of God being thereunto called Pro. 29. 18. Esay 56. 10. Ezech. 3. 18. III. To Preach negligently Ier. 48. 10. Reu. 3. 16. IIII. Hatred of our neighbour in heart 1. Ioh. 3. 15. Leu. 19. 17. V. Vnaduiâ—ed anger Math. 5. 22. Eph. 4. 31. Col. 3. 8. Mark 3. 5. Rom. 1. 29. VI. Enuy Gen. 31. 1. Math. 27. 15. Gen. 37. 1. Sam. 18. 8. 9. Dan. 6. 4. 1. Pet. 2. 1. Gal. 5. 21. Gen. 4. 5. VII Grudges Phil. 2. 14. 1. Pet. 4. 9. Wisd 1. 11. VIII Want of compassion and sorrow at our neighbours calamities Amos 6. 5. 6. Gen. 40. 23. IX Frowardnesse when we will not bee reconciled to our neighbours Rom. 1. 30. X. Desire of reuenge Psal 5. 6. Rom. 12. 17. Pro. 20. 22. Leu. 19. 18. XI Bitternesse in speaking Prou. 12. 18. Epes 4. 31. XII Reproaches which is the casting of a mans sins in his teeth which hée hath committed or obiecting to him his infirmities Math. 5. 22. XIII Railing 2. Sam. 16. 7. 8. 1. Cor. 6. 19. chap. 5. 11. XIIII Contentions when men striue in speach for superiority Phil. 2. 3. Pro. 26. 21. Pro. 6. 19. XV. Brawling in any conference Ecclesiasticus 28. 11. XVI Crying or loud brawling Gal. 5. 19. Ephes 4. 31. Gen. 16. 11. XVII Complaint to euery one of such as offer vs iniury Iam. 5. 9. XVIII Cruelty or hatred in countenance Gen. 4. 5. 6. Math. 27. 39. XIX Cruelty and hatred in gesture Pro. 6. 13. Psal 35. 16. 21. XX. Cruelty and hatred in the eie Deut. 9. Psal 35. 19. Pro. 10. 10. chap. 6. 13. XXI Cruelty and hatred in humble behauiour in a sad countenance and ciuill carriage XXII Cruelty and hatred in laughter ieasting mocking smiling scorâ—ing Gen. 21. 9. Gal. 4. 29. Gen. 9. 22. 25. 2. Sam. 6. 20. 23. Iudg. 16. 30. 2. Sam. 10. 4. 2. King 2. 23. Psal 35. 15. XXIII Cruelty and hatred in ciuill countenance and peaceable words 2. Sam. 20. 9. 10. Math. 26. 49. XXIIII To fight with or to beate our neighbour and to maime his body Leu. 24. 19. 20. XXV To procure the death of our neighbour any way by sword famine or poyson Gen. 4. 8. XXVI To exercise tyrannous cruelty in inflicting punishments Deut. 25. 3. XXVII To take occasion by our neighbours infirmities to vse him discourteously and to make him our laughing stocke and taunting recreation Leu. 19. 14. 2. King 2. 23. Iudg. 16. 25. XXVIII To iniure the impotent the féeble the poore the strangers the fatherlesse and widowes Exod. 22. 21. 22. XXIX Not to pay the Labourer his hire Deu. 24. 14. 15. XXX Not to restore the pledge of the poore Exod. 22. 26. 27. XXXI To withdraw corne from the poore Pro. 11. 26. Amos 8. XXXII Pardoning of murtherers Numb 35. 16. 33. Math. 26. 52. XXXIII Vnskilfull practises of Physick and Chirurgery for gaine XXXIIII Not to preuent occasions of murther and death Deut. 22. 8. 3 Cruelties against the creatures I. To kill bruit beasts rudely in sports II. Inhumane and cruell vsage of them 2. Tim. 3. 3. Deut. 22. 6. 7. chap. 25. 4. Vertues commanded I. In generall to preserue the life body and soule of our neighbour to our power II. Brotherly compassion Rom. 12. 1â— Esay 24. 16. Lament Ier. Rom. 9. 13. Psal 119. 136. III. To help him to our power Iob 29. 15. 2. Cor. 8. 3. IIII. To help him willingly and spéedily if hée can Pro. 3. 28. V. Not to suffer him to sinne to our power Leuit. 19. 17. 1. Thess 5. 14. VI. To seeke by all meanes to winne him to the profession of Christian Religion 1. Cor. 10. 33. Heb. 10. 24. VII To liue among men without giuing offence 1. Cor 10. 32. 1. Cor. 8. 13. VIII To giue example of godly life to our neighbour Math. 5. 16. 1. Pet. 3. 1. 2. IX To giue encouragement to them that loue and feare God Psal 119. 63. X. Vsing of
lawfull recreations for the health and strength of our bodies 2. Sam. 1. 18. Neh. 7. 67. XI Not to bee angry with our neighbor vpon small and light occasions Numb 12. 3. Pro. 9. 11. XII Neuer to bee angry but vpon most iust cause that is when God is dishonoured Mar. 3. 5. XIII Iust anger of short continuance Ephes 4. 26. XIIII Free forgiuenesse of iniuries Ephes 4. 32. Math. 5. 24. chap 6. 14. 15. XV. To couer our neighbours infirmities 1. Pet. 4. 8. XVI Departing sometimes from our owne right Math. 17. 25. 26. XVII Ouercomming euill with goodnesse Rom. 12. 21. XVIII Séeking peace with all as much as may be 1. Pet. 3. 11. XIX Courteous answeres Pro. 15. 1. XX. To passe by many infirmities of men in their deeds and words Pro. 19. 11. XXI To take euery thing if it be possible in the best part 1. Cor. 13. 5. Rom. 1. 29. XXII To minister food and rayment to the néedy Math. 25. 41. 42. XXIII To defend and helpe our neighbour being in danger 1. Ioh. 3. 16. XXIIII Not to gleane the corne from the poore after reaping The seuenth Commandement Thou shalt not commit adultery THe occasion of the seuenth Commandement is our lustfull and fleshly nature Sinnes forbidden I. In generall all vnchaste behauiour in word and deed and all vnchaste thoughts of the heart Mark 7. 20. 21. 1. Cor. 7. 34. II. The euill concupiscence of the flesh Math. 5. 28. Col. 3. 5. Pro. 7. 25. chap. 6. 25. III. Burning in the flesh i. the inward heat of lust whereby all godly motions of the heart are ouer-whelmed and burnt vp with contrary fire 1. Cor. 7. 9. IIII. Strange pleasures with beasts Leu. 18. 23. V. Carnall pleasures with euill spirits VI. Buggery or Sodomy which is abhomination with one of the same sere Leu. 18. 22. Rom. 1. 26. 27. 1. Cor. 6. 9. VII Mastupration which is fleshly pleasure with ones selfe it is like Onans sinne Gen. 38. VIII Incest which is carnall pleasure with one of neere alliance and mariage within the degrées forbidden Leu. 18. 1. Cor. 5. 1. Math. 14. 3. 4. 2. Sam. 13. 14. IX Rauishment Gen. 34. 1. 2. 2. Sam. 13. 14. X. Polygamie which is to haue two or moe wiues 1. Cor. 7. 2. Gen. 2. 14. chap. 4. 19. XI Entising and stealing of Virgines XII Marriage with one vnlawfully diuorced Mat. 19. 8. 9. XIII Abuse of marriage Leu. 20. 18. XIIII Fornication Deut. 22. 28. 1. Cor. 10. 8. chap. 6. 9. chap. 5. 11. Ephe. 5. 3. 1. Cor. 6. 18. XV. Whoredome or stewes Deut. 23. 17. Ier. 5. 7. Heb. 13. 4. Ephes 5. 5. XVI Adultery Deut. 22. 22. 23. Ier. 5. 7. 8. 9. Heb. 13. 4. Prou. 6. 30. 31. 32. 33. Prou. 2. 17. 18. Reu. 21. 8. XVII Baudy ieasts vncleane rotten and vnsauory spéeches 1. Cor. 15. 33. Ephes 4. 29. chap. 5. 3. 4. 1. Tim. 5. 13. Math. 12. 36. Col. 4. 6. XVIII To haue fellowship or familiarity with vncleane persons Ephes 5. 7. 11. Psal 1. 1. XIX Wantonnes or effeminate life when one seeketh occasions to stirre vp lust Gal. 5. 19. 1. Cor. 6. 9. XX. All occasions and temptations to Whooredome and Adultery as 1 Adulterous eyes or wanton lookes Math. 5. 28. Prou. 6. 25. Ecclesiasticus 25. 23. chap. 42. 12. Gen. 39. 7. 2. Sam. 11. 2. Gen. 6. 2. 3. 1. Pet. 2. 14. 2 Naked pictures which are allurements to lust for sin brought shame and shame apparell to couer it Gen. 3. 7. 1. Thess 5. 22. 3 Ryotous and wanton apparell 1. Tim. 2. 9. Esay 3. 16. 17. 4 Pampering of the bedy with meate and drinke which prouoke lust Rom. 13. 13. Luk. 16. 19. 5 Idlenesse Ezech. 16. 45. 1. Tim. 5. 12. 13. 6 Curiosity and vanity in strange apparell Zeph. 1. 8. 7 Painting of the face laying out of the haire curling crisping curious binding and strange attires 2. King 9. 30. Pro. 7. 10. 8 Dishonest and alluring spéeches Prou. 6. 24. Prou. 7. 21. 9 Gadding abroad to houses through the streetes méetings and companies to gaze and to bee gazed on Prou. 7. 11. 1. Tim. 5. 13. Gen. 34. 1. 2. 10 Squint-lookes glances minsing tripping ietting amorous countenances tinkling creaking alluring gestures Esay 3. 11 Dalliance courting and vnseemely companying with women Pro. 7. 13. 22. 12 Loue-songs ballads stage-plaies and wanton bookes Eph. 5. 3. 4. 13 Mixt dancing of men and women together Mark 6. 22. Iob 21. 11. 12. Gen. 34. 1. 14 Swéet perfumes and costly smels vsed for pronocations to vncleannes Pro. 7. 17. Esay 3. 24. 15 Vnlawfull diuorcement Math. 5. 32. 16 Light punishment for adultery Vertues commanded 1 In generall chastity and purity in soule and body as much as belongeth to naturall generation 1. Thess 3. 4. 5. 1. Cor. 7. 34. 1. Thess 5. 23. II. Continuall exercise of the heart in holy thoughts and godly meditations Prou. 4. 23. 2. Cor. 7. 1. III. Modesty and chastity in the eies Iob 21. 1. IIII. Chastity of the eares which is refusing to heare vncleane ieasts and communication and to reproue them V. Chastity of the tongue which is to speake onely that which is good to edifie and to minister grace to the hearers Eph. 4. 30. VI. Modesty of the lippes which is to speake of those things with shamefastnesse which nature hath couered Gen. 4. 1. 1. Sam. 24. 4. Iudg. 3. 24. Ephes 5. 3. 4. VII Sobriety and temperance in all spéeches Iam. 1. 19. Mat. 12. 19. Pro. 10. 19. chap. 7. 11. Gen. 24. 64. Prou. 17. 13. VIII Modesty in countenance Gen. 24. 64. Pro. 17. 13. IX Holie comelinesse and sobriety in apparell Tit. 23. Deut. 22. 5. X. Sober and moderate vse of meate and drinke that the body may be enabled to do the actions of godlines Luke 21. 34. Prou. 25. â—0 Prou. 25. 16. chap. 31. 4. XI Sober and chaste behauiour of the whole man 1. Pet. 3. 2 c. Ps 119. 9. Eccl. 4. 1. XII Chastity in wedlocke Heb. 13. 4. 1. Cor. 7. 5. Rom. 13 4. XIII All meanes that preserue chastity which are principally fiâ—e 1 Marriage where the gift of continency is not giuen Heb. 13. 4. 1. Cor. 7. 9. 2 Fasting 1. Cor. 9. 27. 3 Prayer 4 The fellowship and company of the faithfull 2. Tim. 2. 22. Pro. 13. 20. Psal 1. 1. Ephes 5. 3. 4. 5. 5 Labour and trauaile in a Calling allowed of God Rom. 13. 14. 1. Tim. 5. 13. The eighth Commandement Thou shalt not steale THe occasion of the eighth Commandement is our couetous nature discontent euer with our present estate Sinnes forbidden I. Hindering or diminishing our neighbours goods by any meanes in thought word or déed II. Couetousnesse which is the theft of the heart 1. Tim. 6. 2. Ioh. 12. 6. Esay 5. 8. 20 Signes of a couetous heart 1 An eager and sharpe desire of getting Eccles 4. 8. 2 A pinching and niggardly kéeping of them either from himselfe or others Eccles 4. 8. 1.