1. Of goods and portion euer remembring the distinction of age and goodnesse so that the eldest haue his double portion and the youngest their single portions 2. Of yoke-fellow husband or wife in due season fit for them one that at least is not impious nor Infidell 3. The seruants in a twofold regard 1. To imploy them moderately in worke neither toyling them nor giuing them leaue to be idle 2. To reward them liberally with wages and gifts according to euery mans estate and abilitie and Gods blessing vpon their labours Hitherto the Masters dutie the Dames followes and that is twofold 1. Towards her infants to nurse them with her owne milke if it may stand with her health as the law of nature teacheth why else doth God giue breasts and milke at that time and as godly women haue done 2. Toward the whole familie to ouersee their wayes as the husbands deputie and helper still according to his good will and liking and chiefly to attend to the maidens So much of the gouernours of the familie in priuate The duties of the publique gouernours follow These are of two sorts 1. The highest and chiefest gouernours 2. The subordinate and inferiour 1. The highest and chiefest gouernours who must obserue these foure things 1. To establish the true religion and worship of God in their iurisdiction and prohibit the contrary 2. To see good vertuous and wholesome lawes made for the welfare and good behauiour of the people 3. To defend their owne country and their oppressed neighbours by iust warres defensiue or offensiue 4. Being a King to sit personally in the seat of iudgment diuers times yea vsually for the Kings in Israel succeeded Iudges 2. The second sort of gouernours are subordinate and inferiour 1. Iudges truly to administer distributiue iustice in finding out and sentencing malefactors with all iust seueritie and equitie of proceedings 2. Other officers of all sorts to be helpfull to the vtmost of their power to the execution of all good lawes and orders according as for the most part their oaths doe binde them So farre of the duties of gouernours next are the duties of the gouerned 1. Common to all 2. Peculiar to each 1. The duties of the gouerned common to all are twofold 1. To the persons of their gouernours 2. To their power and authoritie 1. To the persons of their gouernours reuerence and that twofold 1. Inward in heart by standing in awe of them and not daring to offend them for conscience sake to God that hath setled gouernours in the world 2. Outward reuerence 1. In words and speeches 2. In gestures and behauiours 1. In words and speeches three wayes 1. To themselues that they be submissiue and dutifull mannerly and reuerent as Sarah called Abraham Sir 2. To others before them that they be neither ouer many nor loud and vehement but moderate temperate 3. To others of them behinde their backs that they be respectiue and loyall for so was Sarahs very thought of her husband 2. Outward reuerence is in gestures and behauiours as bowing the knee doffing the hat arising vp to them and all other like respectiue cariages 2. The dutie of the gouerned common to their power and authoritie two wayes 1. By a willing obedience to all their lawfull commandements 2. A due receiuing of all their reproofes and corrections 1. Submissiuely gently patiently though they be vniust and ouer-rigorous 2. Fruitfully and with care of reformation if they be iust and causefull The peculiar and proper duties are 1. Those that are priuate 2. Those that are publique 1. Those that are priuate in the familie viz. Of 1. The wife 2. The children 3. The seruants 1. The peculiar and proper duties of the wife and yoke-fellow are twofold 1. Sociable cariage and cheerefull behauiour to his person 2. Huswifely sauing and thriftie disposing of the goods of her husband 2. The peculiar and proper duties of the children are twofold 1. To maintaine the parents if need be in sicknesse and age yea rather to want ones selfe and that his owne children want then suffer them to want 2. To be ruled by them in the choice of a yoke-fellow wife or husband 3. The peculiar and proper duties priuate of the seruants are twofold 1. To be trustie in sauing and keeping their Masters goods committed to them 2. To be painfull and diligent in their businesses as well in the absence as the presence of the gouernours 2. The peculiar and proper duties publique in the Common-wealth are two 1. Defence of their persons against all treasons conspiracies violence offered to them by any according to their places 2. Payment of accustomed and iust dues as tole tribute and the like for their maintenance in their places So much of the duties depending vpon speciall naturall bonds Now follow spirituall bonds with the duties on them dependant for there is a spirituall life and things that doe pertaine to the spirituall life and therefore it cannot be but that some consideration should be set from them to binde men to diuers speciall duties Now there is 1. A spirituall kinred 2. A spirituall degree 1. A spirituall kinred betwixt all Christians members of Christs bodie 2. Betwixt some Christians peculiar 1. Betwixt all Christians members of Christs bodie to whom euery other member of the same bodie oweth two things 1. Brotherly loue which is an accounting of them specially deare desiring their good and delighting in it and grieuing for the contrary and taking content in their societie aboue all other kinde of people 2. Speciall helpfulnesse to them in their crosses and afflictions doing good chiefly to the houshold of Saints 2. There is a spirituall kinred betwixt some Christians peculiarly whom God hath made especially beholding or beneficiall each to other as 1. The father in Christ 2. The sonnes in the faith 1. The father in Christ is that man by whose Ministerie it hath pleased God to conuert another to the faith and to true pietie he owes three things 1. A speciall care to further their proceedings whom he hath brought to goodnesse by bold and diligent admonishing comforting exhorting and that frequently as occasion will serue 2. Ioy and thankfulnesse to God for their well-doing and good proceedings in pietie 3. Sorrow and speciall humiliation before God for their disorders decay or reuolting 2. The sonnes in the faith they owe two things 1. A singular thankfulnesse such as should make them thinke no cost nor paines too much to doe them good making account that they owe to them euen themselues 2. They owe a greater readinesse to receiue their admonitions exhortations as men hauing a speciall power ouer them Hitherto of kinred 2. Now of a spirituall degree and that is twofold 1. Of gifts 2. Of gouernment 1. Of gifts in regard of which some are 1. Stronger Christians 2. Weaker Christians 1. Stronger Christians that haue a greater measure of sanctification these must vse their strength in a milde and
preseruation of worship when it is not preserued and honoured but discredited and destroyed and that two waies 1. By sacriledge in peruerting the holy goods tithes and offerings to common and prophane purposes 2. By abuse of discipline in a twofold regard 1. Of the ministerie 2. Of the congregation 1. In regard of the ministerie foure waies 1. When a false ministerie is established that is a function of doing such things as God hath not appointed to be done 2. When wicked Ministers and insufficient are admitted and tolerated 3. When good and painfull Ministers are excluded for contentions sake 4. When men not at all assigned to any ministerie are suffered to performe and doe performe the ministeriall actions 2. The abuse of discipline in regard of the congregation and that is two waies 1. In regard of priuate men 2. In regard of the Gouernours 1. In regard of priuate men when they contemne and despise the Church censures and are obstinate against either priuate or publique admonition or excommunication 2. When they doe freely and familiarly conuerse with obstinate offenders chiefly the excommunicated 2. Abuse of discipline in regard of Gouernours is twofold 1. The abuse of excommunication 2. The abuse in excesse of rigour to the penitent 1. The abuse of excommunication is when it is pronounced and exacted foure waies 1. For no iust cause as for trifles and small matters much more for well doing 2. Against those that are humble and readie to shew their repentance 3. By those that haue no power or authoritie to intermeddle therein As those that are not Ministers of Gods word 4 Carelesly and rashly hand ouer-head and in priuate chambers as it were in hugger mugger 2. The abuse of excommunication in excesse of rigour to the penitent by reiecting them from publique entertainment in the communion of the Church though they doe relent and humble themselues and professe repentance Or on the other side by receiuing them in for rewards sake that shew none or but a very ouert and slithy kinde of repentance Hitherto the direct breaches of this commandement It is also broken 2. By commission of sinnes quite contrarie Indirectly two waies 1. By occasions of false worship 2. By appearances of false worship 1. By occasions of false worship two waies first either 1. To others 2. To our selues 1. To others 1. By making or retaining instruments of Idolatrie as Idols and the like 2. By commending maintaining or perswading any false worship much more inforcing vnto it by commandements threats or punishments 2. To our selues by familiar societie leagues and vnnecessarie couenants with Idolaters and an vncautelous venturing vpon their bookes or going to their seruice 2. The second way by appearances of false worship two waies 1. By all kinde of allowance by word or writing or silence when there is iust cause of speaking through feare or lucre or the like though one in heart meane otherwise 2. By ioyning with them in the externall acts of false worship pretending or intending to keepe his heart to himselfe and not to meane as they meane Hitherto the second Commandement the third followes Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vaine THis Commandement enioynes that which for distinctions sake may be called the common worship of God that is the right carriage of our selues for his honour in all our common affaires so far forth as we haue any thing to doe with him therin For God being euery where present in all actions we hauing perpetual occasion of a kinde of conuersing with him and those things that are his it is meet that in all these as well as in exercises of religion we should shew our due respect of him The name of God signifies two things 1. Himselfe by any meanes manifested vnto vs. 2. All those things by which as it were signes he pleaseth to make himselfe knowne vnto vs. All which are referable vnto two heads 1. Common to all as the great workes 1. Of creation 2. Prouidence vpholding and ruling all things 2. Peculiar to his Church two waies 1. His Scriptures 2. His workes of grace and speciall goodnesse 1. In his Scriptures comprehending vnder them three things 1. His doctrine of life and saluation called vsually the religion of the Church 2. His titles whereby he is called 3. His attributes whereby he worketh 2. In his workes of grace and speciall goodnesse as predestination redemption iustification sanctification c. To take the name of God is to haue any occasion of vsing or mentioning any of the fore-named things in our common actions of life In the solemne worship of God we are taken vp of Gods name sequestring our selues from all other things and giuing our selues wholly thereto but in the common acts of life we take them vp vpon diuers occasions vsing them in and with our other affaires The parts of this commandement are two 1. Affirmatiue 2 Negatiue 1. Affirmatiue shewing what things are required in this commandement 2. Negatiue shewing what things are forbidden The duties required are of two sorts 1. A due and orderly vsing of holy actions 2. The right behauing of our selues to Godward in our common affaires and businesses 1. A due and orderly vsing of such holy actions as come to be performed in and with our common businesses by which God is called after a speciall manner to inter-meddle with the same For an holy action is that whereby God is the immediate and next obiect and by his appointment tendeth directly to the exercising of holinesse in part or in whole Now there are two such holy actions which are of frequent vse in and with our common affaires viz. 1. An oath 2. A sacred or diuine lot 1. An oath of which we must know 1. The nature 2. The vse 1. The nature by considering three things 1. The person to be sworne by 2. The parts of this oath 3. The purpose or vse thereof to which these actions are to be applied 1. The person to be sworne by or the obiect of the oath which must be God alone Thou shalt sweare the Lord liueth 2. The parts of this oath or the seuerall actions included and implied in it which are foure 1. An assertion by way of affirming or denying either barely or with obligation to or from something 2. An acknowledgement of Gods omniscience omnipotence and iustice and other like attributes 3. An inuocation of him to beare witnesse to the truth of what we say 4. An imprecation against our selues if we doe speake falsly that is a referring ouer of our selues and offering our selues into his hand to be punished by his power and iustice 3. The third thing to be considered is the purpose or vse to which these actions are to be applied that is the ending of a controuersie that cannot otherwise be ended conueniently So that an oath is a religious seruice of God whereby we referre our selues vnto God as a competent and fit witnesse and Iudge of the
good workes and ready to distribute according to the eminencie of their estate and meanes Great and rich men must practise 1. Bounty 2. Munificence 2. The lesse gifted are bound to two things 1. To acknowledge their gifts with all due and respectiue cariage towards them agreeable thereto in all ciuilitie and curtesie 2. To be willing to be beholding vnto them and to enioy helpe and assistance from their gifts as occasion shall be offered Hitherto of vnequals without gouernment Now of those with gouernment because the difference betwixt them ariseth from some office or estate which the one hath more then the other Their duties are of two sorts 1. Mutuall 2. Seuerall 1. Mutuall such as they are reciprocally and these are three 1. A speciall degree of loue each to other according as they are more neerely combined in their estates The parent owes a parentall loue the yoke-fellow a matrimoniall loue and so in the rest each must haue a more earnest plentifull and stedfast affection to other in regard of their places 2. A particular mentioning of each other in their prayers vnto God 3. A speciall care of each others comfort and credit and endeuour to procure it more then to other men 2. Their duties seuerall such as are peculiar to either 1. To Gouernours towards them that are gouerned 2. To gouerned towards them that gouerne them 1. The duties of Gouernours are twofold 1. Common to all Gouernours 2. Peculiar to each kinde of Gouernours 1. The duties common to all Gouernours are two 1. To keepe reuerence and respect to themselues in the hearts of those that are vnder their gouernment by a vertuous conuersation and by giuing themselues examples to them in all goodnesse 2. To exercise their authoritie ouer them to which end it must be declared and that in three respects 1. What be the parts of power and gouernment to be exercised 2. What is the next end that all must aime at in their gouernment 3. The manner of vsing that authoritie 1. What be the parts of power and gouernment to be exercised and those are towards 1. All vnder their gouernment 2. To the different kinds of them 1. Towards all vnder their gouernment two wayes 1. To direct them in their wayes 1. By minding lawfull and fit things 2. By forbidding the contrary 2. To defend them from the iniuries that might be offered them by any other of the common inferiours chiefly 2. The second part of power and gouernment to be exercised is towards the different kindes of them 1. To the good 2. To the euill 1. To the good and obedient 1. By praises and commendations 2. By rewards and recompences 2. Towards the euill and disobedient 1. By reproofe and reprehension 2. By chastisements and corrections according to the difference of faults and places differently 2. The second dutie to be declared is what is the next end that all men must aime at in their gouernment viz. the welfare good and happinesse of those vnder their gouernment as well as and together with their owne welfare and content 3. The third dutie to be declared is the manner of vsing their authoritie to this end by the practise of foure things 1. Iustice 2. Prudence 3. Mildnesse 4. Courage 1. By the practise of iustice in a twofold regard 1. Of persons towards whom gouernment is exercised by being indifferent and vnpartiall the same to all in the same cases 2. In regard of the speciall acts of power and that in two regards 1. By commanding nothing but what is lawfull to be done in regard of conscience to God and forbidding nothing but what may be omitted without sinne against God 2. By correcting and reprouing for nothing but a fault praising and rewarding for nothing but a vertue and that according to the proportion and quantitie both of vertues and vice 2. By the practise of prudence or discretion two wayes 1. By obseruing the different dispositions of those that are vnder ones gouernment 2. By making choise of two things 1. Fit things to command and forbid and fit kindes of reproofes corrections praises rewards agreeable to the difference of the persons dispositions with whom one hath to deale 2. By making choise of fit times and places wherein to exercise any part of authoritie both 1. In regard of ones selfe that commandeth reproueth 2. In regard of them that are commanded reproued c. The fittest time is when neither are transported with passion or distemperance 3. By the practise of mildnesse to shew it selfe two wayes 1. In commandements 2. In reproofes and corrections 1. In commandements two wayes 1. By abstaining from hard difficult and painfull commandements vnlesse in case of necessitie 2. By mollifying commandements with louing familiar sweet and perswading speeches different according to the diuers kindes of inferiours 2. In reproofes and corrections by giving them 1. Moderately for kinde and measure so that the reproofe and correction neither exceed the fault nor the power and strength of the corrected 2. Compassionately and with demonstration of loue and pitty for the manner chiefly when necessitie calls to some roughnesse 4. By the practise of courage and resolution in going on forward to performe what is fit notwithstanding 1. Any importunitie intreatie and suit 2. Ill speeches or shew of danger Hitherto of duties common to all superiours in gouernment Peculiar duties of seuerall kindes of gouernours both in the 1. Familie of the Master Dame or Mistresse do follow 2 Common-weale do follow The Masters dutie is twofold 1. To all his familie ioyntly 2. To the seuerall members of his familie 1. To all his familie ioyntly as lie is a common ruler of that societie wholly considered and so he must regard 4. things 1. That Gods name be called vpon and worshipped in his familie for the families are cursed that call not vpon the name of God 2. He must haue regard to catechize them in true religion and bring them all vp in information of godlinesse 3. He must haue regard to prouide things necessarie for them 1. In health Food and the like 2. In sicknesse Attendance Physicke 4. He must haue regard to ouersee their wayes and cariage and 1. Set them to fit imployments 2. To redresse and reforme their disorders 2. The masters dutie is to looke to the seuerall members of his familie 1. To those whom it is in his power to chuse as wife and seruants to chuse vertuous and godly ones a woman fearing God and seruants fearing God 2. To vse them all well viz. the Wife Children Seruants 1. The wife and that two wayes 1. By familiar and kinde behauiour towards her person 2. By liberall and bountifull allowance of all comforts vnto her 2. The children two wayes 1. By good education 1. In younger yeeres causing them to be taught to write and reade c. 2. In riper yeeres setting them to some calling according to their capacitie and their parents abilitie 2. By good prouision for them
sportfull or if wee will needes play for something the summe must needs bee of such a nature 1. As the players both of them can well spare without any apparant detriment to their estates 2. As for the quantity of it is not fit to stirre vp couetous passions 3. As in other cases a man of discretion would make none account nor be no whit at all moued with the gaining or losing of it Hitherto diligence in our callings the next vertue to be practised in our callings is prudence or discretion 2. Prudence is a vertue of ordering our affaires in such a manner as we may attaine good and prosperous successe therein or if we be crossed it befall not through any default of our owne The rules of wisdome tend to two heads 1. To meet with losses 2. To make our businesse thriue 1. To meet with losses and indammagements 1. By preuenting them 2. By mitigating them 1. By preuenting them so farre as may bee 1. By taking good security of those with whom we deale Take a pledge of his hand for a stranger saith Salomon 2. By secrecy Keepe thy selfe secret for the wife of thy bosome saith the Prophet 3. By a good boldnesse to denie vnfit requests chiefly of those that enter into bonds or bee sureties for them vnlesse it be 1. For honest men and sufficient to our knowledge 2. For our friends and familiars 3. For such summes as we can well pay our selues without feeling a great burden to our estates 4. By dealing plainly and squarely with all men lest it fall out that crafty snares take his foot that laid them Hitherto of preuenting losses now followes 2. By mitigating losses and making them as easie as may be which cannot be totally preuented as by reuealing ones debts c. to his friends and crauing their helpe afore it be too late as Salomon aduiseth in case of suretiship 2. Rule of wisdome is to make ones businesse thriue and proue gainfull for which end some generall rules are giuen in Scripture 1. Obserue and take fit times and seasons that nature or other occasions offer as the Ant that laboureth in Summer for that is a season for all things as in youth and health to get for age and sicknesse c. 2. To know our estate and keepe all our affaires bargaines c. within the compasse of it as Salomon bids Know the face of thy flocke Pro. 27.23 3. To doe things chiefly of importance in ones estate with deliberation and counsell for in the multitude of counsellers is peace 4. To feare the worst as well as hope the best for suspecting what ill may come and not only what must needs come 5. To put all things to such vse as much as may be that a man may liue of his owne and not be euer buying as Salomon aduiseth Pro. 27. last 3. Duty Hitherto of wisdome in our callings cheerefulnesse followes and it is a vertue whereby a man goes forward in the works of his calling with an vndiscouraged heart euen though crosses come out of the consideration of Gods good prouidence in all things and a dependance vpon his truth to cause all worke for the best And so much for that part of maintaining ones estate which consists in getting That followes that consists in keeping and here comes to be practised the vertue of thrift Thrift is the vertue of obseruing due measure in expences and it is done by two things 1. By cutting off vnfit expences 2. By moderating needfull expences 1. By cutting off vnfit expences which are of two sorts 1. Vnlawfull such as when the matter whereupon they are bestowed is repugnant to Gods will as maintaining of Harlots Bauds c. and an hundred such like 2. Needlesse such as come not within the limits of a mans vocation and wherein he followes not God spending because hee sees God would haue him spend but his owne lusts spending because for some carnall end he hath a will to spend whereof the most vsuall are these 1. By vaine iourneys from place to place 2. By vaine feastings and merry meetings 3. By vaine sutes in law to vndoe another or seeke reuenge of him 4. By vaine gifts to ones greater in hope of aspiring 5. By vaine vndertaking in ostentation to pay for all when he comes in company c. 2. By moderating needfull and vertuous expences in meate drinke apparell building houshold stuffe sports and the like to these framing them 1. To the naturall vse appointed of God 2. To a mans owne meanes gettings and reuenues for if more come out then in there will be emptinesse at last 3. To a mans owne estate and place in regard of gouernment and authority and ranke where hee dwels a gentleman must not affect to be like a Lord a Lord like a King in building and such like Hitherto of maintaining ones estate 2. Now secondly of enioying and vsing the same by applying our selues to reape those benefits from them whereto naturally they serue and which God would haue vs to reape by the practise of the vertue of liberality or bounty or in a great estate munificence both in respect 1. Of our selues by taking a comfortable portion for our persons and families in meat drinke cloth c. according as God shall blesse vs. 2. To others and that both 1. Publique 2. Priuate 1. Publique in being at charges for the common benefit in building bridges hie-waies free-schooles colledges almes-houses hospitals c. which is right munificence and a being rich in good workes 2. Priuate and particular 1. In mercy 2. In kindnesse 1. In mercy to the distressed 1. By lending freely to them that neede 2. By giuing to them that want 2. In kindnesse to neighbours and friends and all men in the practise of the vertue of hospitality by a louing and moderate entertainment of honest men that shall haue occasion to come vnto vs and other like courtesies onely know that mercy must take the vpper hand of these curtesies for Christ saith call not thy rich friends to dinner but the poore meaning call the poore rather Hitherto of the duties required in regard of our owne estate That followes secondly which concerneth 2. The estate and goods of other men called particular iustice which is the vertue of giuing to euery man his owne of which we must consider 1. The generall rules 2. The diuers kinds 1. The generall rules which in Scripture are two 1. Doe to euery man at ye would they should doe to you 2. Serue each other in loue not looking altogether to serue your selues 2. The diuers kinds iustice is 1. Of words called truth 1. In assertions denying or affirming as the thing is 2. Promises faithfully resoluing and endeuouring to the vtmost of our power to keepe them 2. Iustice is of dealings and affaires consisting of many words and actions and this is 1. Commutatiue 2. Distributiue 1. Commutatiue that concerneth affaires that passe betwixt man and man in regard of
ordinary conuersation must be ordered well and that 1. By restraining speech 2. By vsing speech 1. By restraining speech 1. Of their bad deeds 2. Of their good deeds 1. Of their bad deeds behinde their backes but 1. Vpon iust cause 2. In good manner 1. Vpon iust cause 1. If they bee publique and openly knowne to glorifie the iustice of God and edifie others 2. If they be priuate and knowne to none or few but our selues then 1. To warne those that might else be infected 2. To aduertise those that haue authority to redresse it 2. In restraining speeches of their bad deeds in a good manner that is 1. Sparingly rather with the least then most 2. Pitifully with compassion and louing affection 2. By restraining speech of their good deeds before their face but 1. Vpon good occasion 2. With manifest referring of the praise to God 1. Vpon good occasion 1. Of encouragement and that 1. Against temptations 2. Against oppositions 2. Of thankfull acknowledgement of good receiued 2. With manifest referring of the praise to God that they may not be puffed vp 2. Our words in ordinary conuersation must be ordered well by vsing speech 1 In their presence 2. In their absence 1. In their presence of their deeds 1. Good encouragement to proceed 2. Bad reprehension admonition 2. In their absence 1. Praise to stirre vp others to imitate them 2. Iust defence against slanders and calumniations Hitherto of the right ordering of our selues in regard of our owne speeches Now for that that concernes the words which we heare others speake of our neighbours which is twofold 1. In generall wee must examine that that is spoken vnto vs and call for due proofe 2. In speciall 1. For the euill reported we must 1. Be vnwilling to heare it and reiect such tales 2. Vnwilling to giue any credit to it without very sufficient proofe and then sorrowfull for it 2. For the good reported we must 1. Be glad and willing to heare it 2. Willing and desirous to beleeue it if there be any probable proofe that it is true So much for the ordering of our words Now for our deeds 1. We must vse all ciuill and respectiue cariage to our neighbour tending to grace him 2. We must by all meanes striue to draw him to good and vertuous behauiour that may deserue commendation And this for our ordinary conuersation Now for matters of iudgement in it there are vsually amongst vs foure sorts of men exercised 1. The witnesse 2. The aduocate 3. The jurors 4. The Iudge 1. The witnesse whose duty is to declare 1. The whole truth without adding diminishing or altering for fauour or ill will 2. Nothing but the truth no intermixture of falshood is allowable 2. The aduocate pleader or counseller who must with an vnpartiall eye seeke to finde out and cleare the truth though it be to the detriment of his client 3. The jurors who must 1. Indifferently consider of the euidence and throughly search it 2. Bring a right verdict according thereto without fauour anger 4. The Iudge who must 1. Giue free scope to the proceedings of iustice 2. Passe a right and vnpartiall sentence according to the proofes that shall be substantially produced Hitherto the things commanded in this commandement Now of the sinnes against it which are 1. Of omission 2. Of commission in regard of the name 1. Of onesselfe 2. Of ones neighbour 1. Of ones selfe 1. Inward 2. Outward for Words Deeds 2. Of ones neighbour 1. Inward 2. Outward for 1. Ordinary conuersation 1. In words 2. In deeds 2. For matters of iudgement This Commandement is broken in regard of our owne good name inwardly so farre as concerned 1. A mans opinion of himselfe 2. The opinion of other men concerning vs. 1. A mans opinion of himselfe and that 1. In excesse 2. In defect 1. In excesse by two sinnes 1. Selfe-conceitednesse which hath three degrees 1. To imagine ones selfe to haue the vertues he hath not 2. To thinke that hee hath more then it is 3. To bee good in his owne eies because of that hee hath The second sinne in excesse is selfe-flattery which hath also foure degrees 1. A counting ones selfe free from the vices which he is not free from 2. Calling his owne vices by the names of vertues as prodigality good neighbourhood c. 3. Esteeming his grosse sinnes to be infirmities and small faults 4. Imagining to scape reproach for all his great faults confessed so to bee because hee saith in his heart no man shall know it 2. A mans opinion or himselfe in defect by two sinnes 1. Deiectednesse 2. Rigorous condemning 1. Deiectednesse is a false accusing of ones selfe as an hypocrite when he is not because of afflictions and imperfections 2. Ouer-rigorous censuring ones owne actions is a condemning of them excessiuely as foule wicked naught in extremity when indeed they be alone weaknesses and imperfections These two sinnes are not so vsuall but the children of God in temptation doe fall into them These things are faults in regard of our owne opinion of our selues those follow which respect 2. The opinions of other men concerning vs which are 1. Good 2. Bad. 1. Good and that 1. In excesse 2. In defect 1. In excesse where are foure faults 1. Hypocrisie a desire to make a shew of goodnesse to men-ward without any care of being so indeed 2. Vaine glory which is an inordinate desire of praise from men and is of two kindes 1. When we doe our good deeds only or principally to be seene of men which alwaies goes hand in hand with hypocrisie 2. When we desire to be magnified for wit learning wealth parentage and such toyes that may befall a bad man as well as a good chiefly when in truth we haue them not 3. The third fault is accepting and reioycing in false praises as Herod was content to be magnified as a God 4. Swelling and being puffed vp with true praises 2. Faults which respect defect disregarding a good name and not caring whether men thinke well or ill of vs. 2. The bad opinion of other men concerning vs and that also 1. In excesse 2. In defect 1. In excesse in two things 1. False shame 2. Vexation at false reports 1. False shame in being ashamed of that that is not shamefull as 1. Of scoffes taunts for well doing 2. Of pouerty a poore coat or house or a poore kinsman c. 2. Vexation at false reports and being troubled and led ouer-much by what men will say of vs. 2. The bad opinion of other men concerning vs in defect as impudency when a man is not ashamed of his ill workes though all the world talke of them to his reproach Hitherto of inward disorders about our owne good name The outward follow first in regard of our words and that 1. Generally 2. Specially 1. Generally which is 1. In quantity of words 2. In quality of words 1. In