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A56612 A brief exposition of the Ten Commandments and the Lords Prayer. By Symon Patrick rector of St. Paul Covent Garden Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. 1665 (1665) Wing P757A; ESTC R218262 7,155 17

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A Brief Exposition OF THE Ten Commandments AND THE Lords Prayer By Symon Patrick Rector of St. Paul Covent Garden LONDON Printed by J. Hayes for S. Thomson at the Sign of the Bishops Head in St. Pauls Church-yard 1665. TO MY Welbeloved FRIENDS THE PARISHIONERS OF St. Paul Covent Garden THere being a solemn Vow upon you made in Baptisme to keep Gods holy will and Commandments it is as necessary to understand them as it is to be honest men and not to falsifie or break your word For an help therefore to the meanest capacities in a business of such importance I have drawn up an exposition of the Ten Commandments in this plain and familiar way of Questions and Answers not knowing what other course to take that would be of such general use For the Ignorant can reap little benefit by that which is purposely contrived to the pitch of the wise but there is no man of such understanding that may not serve himself very much of that which is writ to the simple people And to say the truth the plainer and more common any notion is of the greater weight and moment we shall find it and the more every man is concerned in it Let me intreat you then not to despise this little Paper but to read it deliberately and ponder every sentence in it For it being so brief that the memory may not be burdened there is not a word superfluous which is not necessary to the unfolding the sense of the command Search the Scriptures also whereby every thing is proved and afterward search and examine your selves about the breach of any of these Precepts either in whole or in part And if the Judgments of God that lie now so heavy upon us have begot any purposes of amendment do not add this new aggravation of your guilt to break those fresh Vows whereby you have bound your selves to God And for the strengthning of them Give your selves to Prayer as the Psalmists phrase is Ps 109.4 Considering also seriously as an help to that what it is you ask of God in that form of Prayer which our Lord made of which I have also added a short Explication And remember withall that all the Prayers you make will not profit you unless they cause you to keep Gods commands better which is the end likewise of all you believe Read over that which we call the Apostles Creed and you will find that every branch of it doth naturally bring forth an holy life When you confess God to be the Creator of the World it plainly implies his Supream Authority over you and the obedience you owe him upon that account When you acknowledg● Jesus to be his Son and your Lord it lays a necessary ingagement on you to be governed by those Laws which the Father Almighty hath sent him to give us For he died and rose again to confirm and seal them He ascended to heaven to take upon him the government of the whole World And he will come again to Judg both the quick and dead according to their works And therefore what manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness that you may be found in peace at his appearing But it is not my business now to expound the Creed whose words are better understood then it's designe which is I say to lead us to the obedience of Gods holy will in all things That is it which I would gladly promote And I earnestly beseech you that this small labour may have no small effect but be so successfull as to excite in you such a working Faith as will save your souls God Almighty take you into his protection and revoke the Orders he hath given to the destroying Angel that you may not die but live to declare the works of the Lord and to pay your Vows to the most High Amen Sept. 13. 1665. Exodus 20. GOD spake all these words saying I am the LORD thy God which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage 1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven Image nor 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 how down thy self to them nor serve 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 ●ate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of 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 the Sabbath day to keep it holy Six daies 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 cattel nor thy stranger that is within thy gates for in six daies the LORD made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it V. Honour thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee VI. Thou shalt not kill 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 cover thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife nor his man-servant nor his maid-servant nor his oxe nor his ass nor any thing that is thy neighbours The Lords Prayer OVr Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name Thy Kingdom come Thy will be done on 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 For thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen A Brief EXPOSITION OF THE Ten Commandments AND THE Lords Prayer Question WHat doth the Preface to the Commandments teach you Answer Lev. 11.44 45. Lev. 19.1 2 3. Lev. 20.7 8. Deu. 10.12 13. The right that God hath to Command and the reason that I have to obey both as he is my Creator and Benefactor Q. Vnto what Duties doth the first Commandment engage you A. To acknowledge the one God of Israel to be the onely true God so as to honour a Mal. 1.6 worship b Psal 95.6 7. Psal 96.6 7 9. fear c Lev. 19.14 love d Mat. 22.37 and believe him e 1 Chr. 20.20 to trust f Psal 62.7 8. and hope g Psal 130.7 in him to offer the sacrifices of Prayer and Praise to him h Ps
50.14 15. Psal no. 1 2 3. and perform all other duties i Deut. 10.12 20 21. which a creature owes to his all-seeing Creator k Heb. 4.13 and to him only l Matth. 4.10 Q. What Duties do you think are required of you by the second Commandment A. That I give all that external worship m Psal 95.6 1 Cor. 6.20 to the invisible God which he hath prescribed but by no means make any corporeal n Deut. 4.12.15 16 17 18 23. Isa 40.18 c. image of him nor give such religious worship to the image of any thing whatsoever it o Psal 97.7 be Q Can you discern any reason whereby God doth inforce this Command A. Yes I observe first that he was jealous of his own people that the very having of an Image would estrange them from him And secondly That such worshippers of other things he accounts Haters of him and will punish them even in their Posterity to the Third and Fourth Generation And thirdly that he will multiply mercies To many Ages upon those who onely serve him as the persons who truely Love and obey him Q. What are the Duties to which by the third Commandment you take your self to be obliged A. First Not voluntarily upon any occasion p Mat. 5.34 35 c. Jam. 5.12 or for any purpose to swear at all and secondly when upon weighty causes I am legally required never to swear falsely q Mat. 5.33 Eccles 5 4 5. nor promise that which I mean not to perform and thirdly not to use the name of God but with great r Lev. 19.12 reverence Q. Are the sins against this Commandment more dangerous than others A. Yes Zach. 5.3 4. Jam. 5.12 Gods plagues shall certainly light upon such sinners For he saith expresly He will not hold them guiltless Q. What do you think the fourth Commandment teacheth you A. First To set apart from my lawful worldly imployments and recreations one day in seven for the solemn worship of God ſ Luk 4.16 Act. 13 14 27. Act. 17.2 That I may advance my t Psal 92.1 2.12 13 14. soul in Piety and learn to cease all my life from sin u Heb. 4.10 thereby preparing my self for the eternal praising of God and my Redeemer in the Rest which remains for his people * Heb. 4.9 and secondly to endeavour to bring those who are under my charge to the same observation Q. But why do you observe the first day of the week when the Commandment speaks of the seventh A. In memory of Christs rising from the dead on the first day that he might enter into his glorious rest having here finished his work of redemption Act. 20 7. 1 Cor. 16.2 Rev. 1 10 for which I have the example of the holy Apostles and the Church of God Q What do you here take notice of that enforces your allowing Gods worship such a portion of your time A. I see that he hath allowed me six times as much for my worldly business and that he himself hath by his proceeding in the Creation signified so much to me and thereupon allowed one day after six daies labour to be a day of blessings unto me Q. What do you think you are bound to practise by the fifth Commandment A. First To reverence x Heb. 12.9 love y 1 Tim. 5.4 and obey z Luk. 2.51 Col. 3.20 Eph. 6.1 2. in all things not disagreeing with Gods Commands a Luk. 14.26 my natural Parents Secondly to respect the Aged b Lev. 19.32 Thirdly To be ruled with humility by the Governours of the family c Eph 6.5 c. Tit. 2.9 10. Kingdome d Rom. 13.1 5 7. 1 Pet. 2.17 or Church where I live e Luk. 10.16 Q What blessings attend upon such obedient persons A. Commonly a long and prosperous life Eph. 6.2 3. Rom. 13 3. 1 Pet. 2.14 Psal 34 12 13 14. Q What duties do you charge your self withal from the sixt Commandment A. Not to take away my own life * Act 16 27 28. nor any other mans † Gen. 9.6 unless publique Justice * Psal 101.8 Rom. 13.4 and necessary defence of my own life † Exod. 22.2 Deut. 22.26 make it unavoidable nor willingly to go to war unless when I am lawfully commanded for preservation of the peace Jam 4.1 2. Q Are these all A. No I take my self necessarily engaged First to suppress all causeless and immoderate long continued though not causeless anger f Mat. 5.21 22. Secondly to put away all contumelious railing and contentious language g Ibid Ephes 4.31 Thirdly To root out all hatred and to love even my enemies and to do them good h 1 Joh. 3.15 Luk. 10.29 c. Mat. 5.44 Fourthly to meditate no revenge of wrongs i Mat. 5.39 40 41. Fifthly Not to oppress and gripe any man but to relieve the poor k Isa 1.15 16 17. Prov. 14.21 Q Do you take your self to be restrained by the seventh Commandment from more than that which we call adultery A Yes I think all other acts l Heb. 13.4 1 Cor. 6.9 10. and lusts m 1 Thes 4.4 5 7. Prov. 6.25 of uncleanness and whatsoever may be the cause or beginning of them n Rom. 13 13. Eph. 5.3 4 5 Col. 3.8 Ezek. 16.49 50. are thereby prohibited And that I may not so much as gaze upon a womans beauty to satisfie my lust without being guilty of hidden Adultery o Mat. 5.38 Mat. 5.32 Q Is there any thing else that you can here observe also to be forbidden A. Yes the putting away of a mans wife except for adultery and marrying another or the marrying her that is so put away Q. What charge doth the eighth Commandment give you A. First Not to take away or detain p Jam. 5.4 Deut. 24.15 Pro 3.27 28. 1 Tim. 5.18 my Neighbours goods either by force or fraud q Prov. 11.1 Lev. 19.13 35 Deut. 25 14. Secondly not to withhold relief from those that need it r 1 Joh. 3.17 Prov 14.21 Lev 19.9 10 11. Deut 24.19 Q. Is there any one precept which you think will secure all the duties of this Commandment A. Yes that of our Saviours As you would that men should do to you do to them likewise Luk 6.31 Matth. 7.12 Q What do you apprehend to be the things forbidden in the ninth Commandment A. Chiefly the giving any false Testimony before a Judge against any man ſ Exod. 23.1 Deu. 19.18 19 And also lying and false accusation t Eph. 4.25 1 Pet 2.12 Luk. 3.14 Whatsoever likewise may defame my brother or detract from him before men u Psal 15.3 Rō 1.29 30. and all rash judgment and censures of him in my own breast * Luk 6.37 Rom. 14.4 1 Cor 13.5 7. Q. What Obligations do you think the tenth Commandment laies upon