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<HEAD>A BRIEF EXPLICATION OF THE Ten Commandments; Intended for a help to the Under&s;tandings and Memories of CHILDREN.</HEAD>
<BYLINE>By <HI>JOHN CHISH&V;LL.</HI></BYLINE>
<LG>
<HEAD>The Preface.</HEAD>
<L>_THe Lord that once took <HI>I&s;rael</HI> by the hand</L>
<L>To bring him out from <HI>Aegypts</HI> bondage, and</L>
<L>To &s;et him free from the Oppre&s;&s;ing crew,</L>
<L>Who vext their &s;ouls with burdens old &amp; new,</L>
<L>Spake all the&s;e words which here explained are:</L>
<L>Mark well, and hear them with a hearing ear.</L>
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<LG N="1">
<HEAD>The Fir&s;t Command.</HEAD>
<L>THe Fir&s;t Command informs us rightly where</L>
<L>Wor&s;hip mu&s;t fix, whom we &s;hould love and fear;</L>
<L>Be &s;ure you have a God, and have but one,</L>
<L>He that hath more is like him that hath none.</L>
<L>Love, Fear, E&s;teem, Honour, De&s;ire, Adore,</L>
<L>Prai&s;e, Tru&s;t, Believe, chu&s;e him, to chu&s;e no more.</L>
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<LG N="2">
<HEAD>The Second.</HEAD>
<L>The Second &s;acred Law directs us now</L>
<L>To Wor&s;hip God, forbids to make or bow</L>
<L>Before an Idol; this excludes as vaine</L>
<L>In Wor&s;hip all the froth of humane braine,</L>
<L>Injoynes us to ob&s;erve with reverend Awe,</L>
<L>The Sacred Ordinances of his Law.</L>
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<LG N="3">
<HEAD>The Third.</HEAD>
<L>The Third Command forbids irreverend u&s;e</L>
<L>Of Gods mo&s;t Holy Name, which we abu&s;e</L>
<L>If &s;lightly or prophanely we &s;hall dare</L>
<L>To name it, but much more uncall'd to &s;weare:</L>
<L>Becau&s;e this &s;in is common, is it &s;mall?</L>
<L>No; &s;uch Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ours &s;hall not &s;cape at all.</L>
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<LG N="4">
<HEAD>The Fourth.</HEAD>
<L>The Fourth Command requires a Seventh dayes re&s;t,</L>
<L>Holy to God, comforts both man and bea&s;t;</L>
<L>Lay by thine own works, words, and thoughts, to rai&s;e</L>
<L>Heaven-ward thy heart, by Faith, Hope, Love and Prai&s;e.</L>
<L>This Law requires thy care for <HI>thee</HI> and <HI>thine,</HI></L>
<L>That <HI>needfull</HI> things with <HI>good</HI> you onely joyne.</L>
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<LG N="5">
<HEAD>The Fifth.</HEAD>
<L>The Fifth Command requires a reverend Awe</L>
<L>Of tho&s;e whom Providence or Nature's Law</L>
<L>Hath plac't above us, whether they be known</L>
<L>To be our <HI>Countries</HI> Parents or our <HI>own:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Kings, Rulers, Parents, Pa&s;tours, Ma&s;ters</HI> are</L>
<L>All to be honour'd with a pious care.</L>
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<LG N="6">
<HEAD>The Sixth Command.</HEAD>
<L>Thou &s;halt not Kill; thus &s;peaks the Sixt Command.</L>
<L>Murther's a crying Sin, pollutes a Land.</L>
<L>To th' Neighbour's <HI>per&s;on, name,</HI> or <HI>goods,</HI> a willing</L>
<L>Wrong done by <HI>deed, word, thought,</HI> 's a kind of killing.</L>
<L>Mi&s;call, revile him not; the Scriptures tell</L>
<L>That cau&s;ele&s;s anger leads the way to hell.</L>
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<LG N="7">
<HEAD>The Seventh.</HEAD>
<L>Take heed, fly from Adult'ry, &s;ayes Command</L>
<L>The Seav'nth in order, giv'n by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> hand:</L>
<L>Beware of loo&s;e behaviour, wanton dre&s;s,</L>
<L>Words, ge&s;tures which entice to wantonne&s;s:</L>
<L>'Bove all, ob&s;erve thine heart lea&s;t it &s;hould &s;teal</L>
<L>Out by thine eye, a &s;ecret way to Hell.</L>
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<LG N="8">
<HEAD>The Eighth.</HEAD>
<L>Thou &s;halt not &s;teal: This Law &s;ecures thy &s;tore</L>
<L>From <HI>fraud,</HI> and <HI>rapine,</HI> and the <HI>idle Poor;</HI></L>
<L>Injoynes thee &s;trictly to do all you can</L>
<L>To further the E&s;tate of every man.</L>
<L>Ju&s;t weights and ballance keep, the goods re&s;tore</L>
<L>Unju&s;tly gotten, though it make thee poor.</L>
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<LG N="9">
<HEAD>The Ninth.</HEAD>
<L>When thou art call'd 'twixt man and man by Oath</L>
<L>Or Word to witne&s;s, &s;peak the Truth for both.</L>
<L>Rai&s;e not, nor &s;pread a &s;lander, to defame</L>
<L>Thy Neighbour, and unju&s;tly wound his name:</L>
<L>The flying Tale &s;uppre&s;s; &s;ee thou defend</L>
<L>His Credit as thine own unto the end.</L>
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<LG N="10">
<HEAD>The Tenth.</HEAD>
<L>The Tenth Commandment bids us be content</L>
<L>With what Gods Providence to us hath lent:</L>
<L>This is thy Neighbours hedge, let him alone;</L>
<L>Look not to lu&s;t, and &s;ay would 'twere mine own.</L>
<L>The goodne&s;s of this God and Law admire,</L>
<L>Who would that none &s;hould wrong thee in de&s;ire.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>The Conclu&s;ion.</HEAD>
<L>Trea&s;ure up all the&s;e in thy youthfull heart,</L>
<L>And let them not in age from thee depart;</L>
<L>But pray that he that did at fir&s;t indite 'em,</L>
<L>Would once for thee in fle&s;hly Tables write 'em:</L>
<L>So &s;halt thou find them to thy joyes increa&s;e,</L>
<L>Wayes of great plea&s;antne&s;s, and paths of peace.</L>
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