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A15011	A pithie, short, and methodicall opening of the Ten commandements. By Master William Whately, preacher of the word of God at Banburie in Oxford-shire	Whately, William, 1583-1639.; Lee, Richard, d. 1650.	1622 (1622)	STC 25315; ESTC S119736	77,294	265

A PITHIE SHORT AND METHODICALL opening of the Ten Commandements BY Master William Whately Preacher of the word of God at Banburie in Oxford-shire LONDON Printed by IOHN HAVILAND for Thomas Pauier and Leonard Greene. 1622. To the Reader HEre is for thee Christian friend Gods sacred and pure Law perspicuously and orderly vnfolded the extent of those glorious beams more now then euer enlarged though we haue many that haue done excellently For in this short and pithie Treatise if thou pleasest seriously to be acquainted with it as also make an holy vse of it there will issue three blessed benefits of speciall and weighty importance First hereby thou maist more clearely know thy selfe and discouer thy cold faintnesse thy leane and idle seruices and crooked disposition and that snakie brood of sinne that lurketh in thy euer-vitious nature for it is the Lawes office to detect sin as a looking glasse to bewray spots and as the Sunne to discouer euen little motes Whence is it men see not their misled liues but because they are vndisciplin'd in the Lords walkes Can there be a worke of greater consequence then a large opening of these holy rules which although the full splendor thereof is reserued for the glory aboue yet open thine eyes to the blessed brightnesse which shines out of this Treatise to discouer thy darke ignorance thy infidelitie and stubborne pride how rich thou art in follie how poore in grace and how conscience hitherto hath beene sealed with a cursed brand here wee may be sad spectators of our froward waywardnesse our wandring and groueling thoughts our barren memories our raging discontented passions and dull edg'd leaden affections yea the disorder of the whole man turning face to Satan and backe to God Secondly it lends powerfull aide in the seruices and worships of God This will bring thee with a hunger-bitten soule and heauy heart to behold the Lords shining face in the preaching of the word and bends thy will to it with absolute yeelding This is a notable touch-stone to try thy selfe to the heart root when thou art to receiue that sacramentall meat and will furnish thee with much store and varietie for prayer Wouldst thou confesse against thy selfe behold here a large field Or wouldst begge graces of God see here a sampler here is matter for meditation for Christian parlees this will enable thee to catechize and instruct thy familie and enlightens thy vnderstanding in reading the Scriptures and for dayes of humiliation times of pretious worth with Gods people this worke thorowly lookt into shall cause thee to fall out with thy selfe and shall send thee with penitent eyes to bewaile thy wretched estate and powre out thy soule into the bosome of Christ and will put such marrow and strength into thee that humbly and hotly thou maist wrastle with God Lastly this shall direct all thy paths and wisely conduct thee through this thornie life it will cause thee thinke well speake well and liue well and furnisheth thee with knowledge faith in God humble deiectednesse spirituall wisdome a well tuned conscience a stooping will heauenly thoughts a right fraught memorie and ranks in order thy loue feare ioy confidence and all the rest of those subordinate faculties of the soule bending them to pursue what is good and stand stifly armed against euery euill And as for being vnspotted of the world and to liue vnblameably wronging neither thy selfe nor any man in soule bodie estate name or place take this booke for thy counsellor Feast thine eyes then with a subiect necessarily vsefull and so exactly compiled that it cannot but winne esteeme with euery knowing man and gratious heart For I must tell thee diuers friends of exquisite iudgement hearing that this worke was in my hand did earnestly sollicite me to turne it to common good Amongst the rest a learned worthy vnderstanding Diuine Master R. Bolton hauing perused it commended it vnto mee in these termes Me thinkes in short and little roome it opens represents the marrow and mysteries of that adored depth the banks and bottome whereof no wit of man shall euer be able fully to fathom and comprehend while the world lasts with more cleare exact and compendious dexteritie then I haue discouered in others though they haue also done excellently And he perswaded with the Author and since also with me to let it passe abroad more publikely Let then the more then ordinarie parts of the workman and of such as haue commended it as also the great paines of our pen-man who hath told me he had a long haruest for this handfull of corne together with the pretiousnes of the subiect and the goodly meeds thou maist gaine by it let these perswade thee to read it and that vnpartially In the meane time my prayer and hearty desire is that thou maist right plentifully prosper by it and so I rest From Blaston 4. of Septemb. Thine in the Lord Iesus RICHARD LEE A PITHIE SHORT AND METHODICAL OPENING OF THE TEN COMMANDEMENTS THE Law of God consisting of ten distinct commandements is a perfect platforme of our obedience acquainting vs with our dutie to God either 1. Immediatly 2. Mediatly 1. Immediatly in regard of himselfe both 1. Principall in the first commandement 2. Lesse principall both 1. For the sorts and kinds of seruice which are two 1. Solemne worship in the second commandement 2. Common worship in the third commandement 2. For the dedicating of a set and solemne time viz. one day in seuen to holy and religious exercises in the fourth commandement 2. Our dutie to God mediatly in regard of our neighbour 1. Seuerally 2. Ioyntly 1. Seuerally in regard of 1. Speciall duties to some in the fift commandement 2. Common duties to all for their 1. Persons 2. Things 1. Persons in regard of their 1. Safetie in the sixt commandement 2. Chastitie in the seuenth commanment 2. Things pertaining to their persons either 1. Goods in the eight commandement 2. Good name in the ninth commandement 2. Now follow those mediatly which are in regard of our neighbour or iointly for all these so far as respecteth the dispositions and first motions of the soule in the tenth commandement The first Commandement is Thou shalt haue no other Gods but me or before me IT inioyneth the principall worship of God that is the making of him our God by yeelding vnto him all such respect as appertaineth to him in regard of his being our Creator and the first fountaine of all being This is a totall and generall subiection of the whole man in all the powers of it vnto him called in Scripture a being holy as God is holy Of this commandement we consider 1. The affirmatiue part that is to say the speciall duties it requireth of vs. 2. The negatiue part that is what euils it forbiddeth and condemneth in vs. The duties required herein are of two sorts 1. Duties of dependance whereby we make him the chiefe and principall obiect of all the powers of

in regard of the acts of conuersation 2. Now followes the inward effects of loue in regard of other accidents that befall him any way as 1. Congratulation or reioycing in his good 2. Compassion or grieuing for his euil Hitherto of the inward effects of loue now followes 2. The outward effects of loue which are 1. Generall in an amiable and kinde ordering of our countenances and whole cariage 2. Particular 1. For his outward estate 2. For his inward For his outward estate 1. In speech 2. In deed 1. In his speech milde and good language 2. In his deed 1. Defence against wrōgs and iniuries 2. Releeuing his miseries and wants 2. His particular inward estate of soule 1. In word 2. In deed 1. In word in regard 1. Of good 2. Of euill 1. Of good to doe our best 1. To shew it him 2. To perswade him to it 3. To encourage him in it 2. In regard of euill 1. Of sinne 2. Of temptation 1. Of sinne 1. To shew it him 2. To disswade him from it 3. To reproue him for it 2. In regard of temptations and afflictions to strengthen and comfort him vnder it Hitherto of the outward estate now followes 2. The inward estate of the soule in regard of deed 1. By giuing him good Example of life 2. By moderating our selues in the vse of Christian liberty for his sake So much is commanded directly whereof hitherto Now indirectly some things are commanded in regard 1. Of men 2. Of beasts 1. In regard of men 1. Liuing 2. Dead 1. Liuing in preuenting that that may probably doe them hurt as 1. Liues of mankinde beasts 2. Incommodious buildings wels pits hie waies c. 2. Dead as comely and decent interring of their bodies 2. In regard of beasts a mercifull vsing them in giuing food rest and quietnesse necessary for them Hitherto the affirmatiue part The negatiue followes which shewes how this commandement is broken 1. By omission of any of the former things either in whole or in part 2. By commission in things quite contrary 1. Directly 2. Indirectly 1. Directly in regard of 1. Our selues 2. Others 1. In regard of our selues contrary to the forenamed 1. Loue. 2. The effect of Loue. 1. Loue. 1. In excesse selfe-loue a peruerse or ouer-earnest desire of our owne naturall welfare 2. In defect which is not often scene in a kinde of bitternesse in ill will against our selues 2. The effect of loue is 1. Inward 2. Outward 1. Inward 1. In regard of good 2. In regard of euill 1. In regard of good which is either 1. To come first by despaire thereof in defect Secondly by a foolish hoping for it in excesse 2. Present contrary to cheerefulnesse 1. In defect 2. In excesse 1. In defect carnall sorrow 1. For our owne crosses 2. For the good of others which is called enuie 2. In excesse by madde mirth and ouer-ioying ofthings carnall 2. The inward effect of loue in regard of euill either 1. To come 2. Present 1. To come 1. In defect timorousnesse in dying almost for feare 2. In foole hardinesse in excesse by an vnnecessary prouoking dangers 2. Present euill 1. In excesse stupidity when a man is like a stone and will not feele them 2. In defect when a man is carried away with fretting and discontentment at them 2. The outward effects of loue 1. For the naturall estate 2. For the spirituall 1. For the naturall estate 1. In regard of the things concerning life 2. In regard of life it selfe 1. In regard of things concerning life 1. Good 2. Euill 1. Good 1. For getting them 2. For the vse of them 1. For getting them 1. By toilsome labouring for them to the hurting of the bodie 2. By slothfull neglect of them 2. For the vse of them 1. In excesse by taking them excessiuely and intemperatly where is the practise of gluttony drunkennesse and all luxuriousnesse and not 2. In defect by niggardly pinching of ones body for want of necessary things 2. Euill and hurtfull in regard of the things concerning life 1. By excesse here is hazardfulnesse in venturing vpon needlesse dangers as combats dangerous sports climbing c. 2. By defect here is timorousnesse and that 1. In not daring to vse fit meanes for preuenting them that might be preuented out of feare of the euill 2. In not daring to hazard our selues to them when our calling requireth 2. The effects of loue for our naturall estate in regard of life it selfe 1. In defect attempting wilfully to take away ones life by selfe-murther 2. In excesse in vsing of base and vile shifts to saue ones life 2. The outward effects of loue for the spirituall estate 1. By impenitency 2. By venturousnesse vpon the occasions of sinne So much of the sinnes against our selues those follow that are against others 1. Against loue 2. Against the effects of loue 1. Against loue 1. In excesse fondnesse and carnall loue 2. In defect hatred hauing two degrees 1. Of dislike of the person not for his sinne but wrong 2. A malitious desire of his hurt 2. Against the effects of loue which are in regard 1. Of his naturall estate of life 2. In regard of his spirituall estate of life 1. In regard of his naturall estate which is 1. Inward 2. Outward 1. Inward respecting 1. The acts of conuersation 2. O her accidents 1. The acts of conuersation passing betwixt vs. 1. For accepting of his deeds 2. For ordering our deeds 1. For accepting of his deeds 1. Good 2. Bad. 1. Good contrary 1. To kindnesse in disdainfulnesse and scornefull reiecting of kindnesse 2. To gratitude 1. By formall thankfulnesse in words alone 2. By vnthankfulnesse 1. By denying or forgetting a good turne done to vs. 2. By requiting good with euill which is worst of all 2. Bad against 1. Meeknesse 2. Forgiuenesse 1. Meeknesse 1. In excesse being too meeke so that sinne maketh not one angry 2. In defect by anger for wrongs too sore too much or too long and it is 1. Vnkindnes taking 2. Sullennesse 3. Rage 2. Against forgiuenesse by reuengefulnesse in remembring euill to requite it with the like or worse 2. The act of conuersation for ordering our deeds toward him 1. Euill 2 Good 1. Euill against innocency which is harmfulnesse and mischieuousnesse for too innocent one cannot be in delighting to hurt others 2. Good contrary 1. To seruiceablenesse 2. To peaceablenesse 1. To seruiceablenesse 1. In excesse by charging our selues harmefully for superfluous kindnesses ouer-kindnesse 2. In defect by hoggishnesse and churlishnesse refusing to doe good 2. Good contrary to peaceablenesse 1. In excesse by being of a man pleasing disposition rather sinning then incurring their displeasure 2. In defect 1. By fained peace to entrap the sooner 2. Frowardnes and contentiousnesse in causing falling out 1. Betwixt our selues and others 2. Betwixt some of our neighbours and others 1. Betwixt our selues and others 1. By procuring jarres 2. By nourishing them 1. By

and doth not deriue it selfe to any other person As I only am neere in affinitie to my wiues sister so is not my brother or father or sonne or vncle 2. Dutie of necessitie that they be of sufficient strength and age for generation else it is a weake mariage 3. Dutie of necessitie that they be both free and vncontracted to any other else it is a nullitie 2. Things to be respected in regard of conueniencie for matter 1. Of religion that they serue the same God and be of the same religion 2. Of ciuill life that they be 1. Of proportionable qualitie for age not one too old or young for the other 2. That there be a paritie of parentage and wealth somewhat neere Thus farre of the dutie at the entrance into the state of matrimonie a due choice Now followes the second dutie 2. A due proceeding to it where also some things 1. Of necessitie must be done 2. Of conueniencie must be done 1. Of necessitie 1. They must haue consent of parents if they haue parents 2. They must take each other with an expresse couenant and purpose of liuing together during their life 2. Some things are to be respected in regard of conueniencie that the couenant be 1. Made by degrees 2. Be published 1. Be made by degrees 1. In espousals which is a mutuall giuing of the right of each others bodies by a serious and solemne promise of mariage 2. In wedding by giuing possession of each others bodies in a promise of liuing together during life 2. That the couenant be published and solemnized according to the different custome of each countrie 2. The duties that concerne the vse and enioyment of this estate 1. In regard of the yoake-fellowes 2. In regard of all others 1. In regard of the yoake-fellowes selues by communicating themselues 1. Willingly without grudging or shew of dislike of each other 2. Seasonably 3. Sanctifiedly with praier 4. Moderately and sparingly to asswage desire not prouoke it 2. In regard of enioyment of all others by a totall abstinence from them euen in desire or any thing that may expresse desire So much for things directly commanded 2. It commands indirectly 1. Shamefastnesse a vertuous kinde of shaming to doe or see any thing that may but carrie an appearance of mouing such conceits 2. Grauitie and modestie in attire Hitherto the affirmatiue The negatiue followes shewing how this commandement is broken by omission and commission and that 1. Directly 2. Indirectly 1. Directly 1. Inwardly in heart 2. Outwardly 1. Inwardly in heart by inordinate lust and lust is inordinate 1. For the measure when it is a burning an eager and a vehement desire bearing downe the whole soule and consuming all other desires 2. For the subiect when it wanders towards vnallowed persons 2. Outwardly and that 1. In rotten communication 2. In actions that are lewd 1. Rotten communication 1. By prouoking foule speeches chiefly songs 2. By talking of the lewd deeds of others or ones selfe with delight 3. By soliciting and tempting any body as Iosephs mistresse did him 2. In actions that are lewd 1. Such as leade and induce to the act 2. The act it selfe 1. Such as lead and induce to the act which is wantonnesse 1. Of the body 2. Of attire 1. Of the body it selfe 1. For the seuerall parts of it 2. For the whole 1. For the seuerall parts of it as 1. The eie 2. The eare 3. The foot 4. The hand 5. The mouth 1. The eie and countenance 1. By beholding things 2. By alluring glances 1. Beholding things incensiue as 1. Lewd pictures and Images 2. Filthy stage plaies 3. The generating of beasts 4. Nakednesse of others 2. By alluring and promising glances of the eie in hauing eies full of adulterie 2. The eare by a willing listening to filthy tales speeches and songs 3. The foot 1. Running to places of ill resort fit for that ill purpose 2. In making signes of ill meaning treading on the toe 4. The hand 1. In gesturing sorth vncleannes 2. In touching and toying by any ouer-familiar touches chiefly of the secret parts for which a womans hand was to be cut off 5. The mouth in vnchaste kissing 2. The whole body 1. In impure imbraces and counterfetting the act of euill 2. Lasciuious dancing or reuelling which is an artificiall wantonnesse 2. The wantonnesse of attire and that 1. By light and vndecent attire that speaketh out wantonnesse and vanity as laying open the breast 2. By changing attire in a mans putting on womans apparell or contrarily which God calleth abomination vnto him 2. The lewd act it selfe which is 1. In strange and vndue abuses of this facultie 2. In inordinate abuse of the course of nature 1. In strange abuses of this faculty otherwise then agrees to the naturall course 1. With ones selfe by committing the sinne of Er and Onan 2. With others 1. Of the same kinde 2. Of other kindes as man or woman with a beast which is confusion 1. Of the same kinde and that 1. Of a different sex 2. Of the same sex viz. Man with man or woman with woman 2. Inordinate act of abuse of the course of nature is either out of mariage or in respect of mariage 1. Out of marriage fornication which is a mixture of two single persons aggrauated 1. By the manner of committing 2. By the person with whom it was committed 1. By the manner of committing if be done 1. By violence so its rape 2. By charmes and spels so it s worse 2. By the person with whom it was committed if it be too neare of kin or affinity then it s called incest 2. Inordinate abuse of the course of nature in respect of mariage and that 1. For the owne yokefellow 2. For others besides 1. For the own yoke-fellow and that 1. For the entring to it 2. For the vse of it 1. For the entring into it 1. In regard of choice 2. In regard of proceeding 1. In regard of choice if one take 1. One that is precontracted 2. One that is too neere a kin 2. In regard of proceeding if one enter it 1. Without consent of parents 2. By a forced couenant or else fained or extorted by fraud 2. In regard of the vse of it 1. By deniall of ones selfe to the yokefellow chiefly in running away in desertion 2. By abuse of the mariage bed and that 1. Vnsanctifiedly 2. Vnseasonably 3. Immoderatly 2. Others beside the owne yoke-fellow 1. In polygamie which is a couert adulterie 2. In flat adultery with another not so much as in conceit a wife or an husband which is 1. Single when one alone is maried and is the worse if the woman be maried 2. Double when both are maried and both receiue aggrauations as fornication did before So much of direct breaches it is also broken 2. Indirectly and that 1. By occasions of this sinne 2. By the appearances of euill 1. By the occasions of this sinne