Chap. t . The dependance and/cope ofthin commandement. Corn. i é; 4, Becaufe the Apoftle Rom.7.7 & r3.9.without'determination of any parti- cular objefts,fets it down generally, Non concupifces,thou/belt net luft,and fomakes it but one Commandement. 5. The content ofthe Hebrew, Do&ors ab.qut and (Mee arias time, as fofe- phue, Philo, Abenetra, and others, and molt of the Fathers of the primitive Church fine Chrift, as we (hewed before, are againft this divi(ìon oftheirs. 6. In Exodus the words are,Thoufbaltnot covet thy Neighbours boufe, and e?hen, Exod.2°,17. thou /halt not covet thy Neighbours wife,&e.but inDeuteronorny the I aft is placed firft, lleut. 5.21 and the other after it;by which inverting the order of the words, God feems ex- , pray to prevent thedividing of this.Commandement : belides,thatin the ninth Commandement(as they make it) íliuld be forbidden, the Concupifcence a-. gainft the eighth, and in the tenth the Concupifcence again(" the feventh, (thou Jhalt not covet thy Neighbours wife : ) and withal the Concupifcence againft the eighth in thefe words (nor his man fervant, nor his maid fervant, nor hie ax, nor his aft, &c.) whereby there would be a manifeft inverting the order of the Com- mandements,and a difturbing of the fence,whichone oftheir own Writers ac- knowledges,(Heffel) who faith here is fenfus perturbatus, andfuch a Hyperbaton or trajeftion, as is not to be found any where in the Scripture'belides : for here is (by their divlion) firft, a prohibiting of the Concupifcence again" the eighth Commandement, and thenof that againft the feventh, and then again of that a- gainft the eighth, 7. In their Catechifms, when they come to expound this Commandement as two, they are in fuch'wapt of matter, when theycome to lay forth the feveral branches of them, that they are fain to thruft both into one; thus they bring in great lamenefs into the Lawof God by thisdivifion, whereas his law is of great extent, and very large. The expofition of this. Precept is to be takenout of Deutegonomy5.2,1.Thon/bait not covet thy Neighbours wife,neither (halt thou covet thy Neighbours houfe,hísfield,e c: and from the Prophets, Efay 55.9. Let the wicked forfake his thoughts, be. and eremy 18.12. where, the doing after the imagination of ones evil heart se forbidden: and inthe Gofpel, from our Saviours expofition, againft the falle doftrine of the Pharifees, Mark. 1506, &r. Iliewtng, that what comes out of tbe heart de¿rles a man: and from S. Paul, Rom.7.7, and Ephef. z, 3,4. and fuch places where the matter of this Commandement is handled. The depen- The dependanceof this Commandement upon the reft,appears in this , that dance of thus without the obferving of this, none of the refs can be kept ; for by giving this Commando- after all the re", God would teach us, how all the re(tare to be understood, viz. ment. that not only the outward aft is forbidden in them, but alfo theinward purpofe and intention of the heart,thotighwe never proceed to the outward a& ; fo that this is the rule andmeafure for the underftanding and fo for the obferving ofthe reft,this is the hinge whereupon all the ref} do turn ; and therefore S..fugufiine faith, Si quid ceterafacere findear, hoc maximefgciat, he that would obferve the reft mull chiefly look to the keeping of this, for this looks to the heart, out of which Prov.4.a3; as Solomon faith, proceed the if/ne:of life anddeath ; and therefore he advifes, 'tokeep Efay54 5. the heart withall diligence,fupra emnem cullodiam,there is the.Cockatricesegge hatcht, Jame. 14,15. as the Prophet fpeaks, and here isfin conceived, as S. ¡lamer fpeaks; which, when it is perfeftedby the aft, bringsforth death, -4he [cope and The (cope and end of the Lawgiver in this, is twofold. end ofthis t. To, Phew that he looketh further then his .aniNxeror, his Subfiitoteson commando- earth can do , and that his Law hath a preheminence above theirs; for though went, mans Lawmay injicere vinculum, may bind the hands and the feet, it may put obtrtramentum , á [topple into the mouth, and it may condemn the purpofe of the heart, quantum petefí prehendere, fo far as it can difcover or take hold ; for if one be found turn rela with a weapon, or breaking into a houle , though he be hindered from theall of murther or robbery, yet here is propo/itum prebem firm, the purpofe difcovered, and takenhold on, and therefore he is puni(hed by mans Law, but all humane Laws fay , and it is anaxiomein the Civil Law, Cogitations ponam nema patiatur, for bare thoughts let no man fulfer , and fo they iet thoughtsgo fret. But God takes order for the very thoughts, though they
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