A LOOKING GLASS FOR THE SOUL, Worthy to be hung up in every House in this Kingdom, and to be looked in daily; for herein is to be seen what sins tend to the breach of every one of God's Commandments, whereby every one of us may clearly see, how fare forth we have had a hand in pulling down this heavy Judgement of War upon this Nation. And so consequently, what cause we have to humble ourselves, and pray, and seek God's face, and turn from our evil ways.  

Sins against the first Commandment.  
1 Atheism 
a Psal 14 1. , which is when men either think there is no God, or live as if there were not God. 2. 
b 1 Cor. 8 4.  Idolatry, which is the having of a false God. 3. 
c 1 Chro. 28. 9  Ignorance, uncapablenes of knowledge, errors and heresies. 4. 
d Eccles. 12. 1. Gen. 40. 23.  Forgetfulness of good things, especially of those that most concern us, and chief at that instant when we should make most use of them. 5. 
e Isa. 44. 4.  Remembering of evil things, especially those that may most corrupt us, and chief then when we should be most free from the thought of them. 6. 
f 1 Chro 28. 9  Unwillingness unto good things, principally to the best 7. 
g Hos. 5. 11.  Readiness unto and wilfulness in evil, especially the worst. 
h Luke 21. 19  Impatience under Crosses. 8. 
i Pro. 3. 5.  Distrust of God's power, mercy, promises, and providence; whence carnal fears are wrought and cherished, and the true fear of God is expelled and banished. 9 
k Deut. 29. 19  Presumption upon God's mercy. 10. 
l Jer. 17. 5.  Carnal confidence, in wit, learning, wealth, strength, friends, etc. Thinking ourselves the better of safer simply for them; whence ariseth pride and security. 11. 
m 1 Joh. 2. 15.  1. Love of evil, as also carnal of ourselves, our friends, our profit, credit, etc. 2. 
n Deut. 6. 5.  Too little love of God, of goodness, of God's servants and services. 12. 
o 2 Chro. 19 2.  Hatred of God and goodness, and want of hatred against our own and others sins. 13. 
p 2 Cor 7. 10.  Abundance of worldly, shame, and discontentment. 
q Rom 12. 15.  And want of godly sorrow and indignation against our own and others transgressions, and not lamenting for the calamity of God's people, private or public. 14. 
r Eccle. 7. 2.  Immoderate carnal mirth, 
s Philip. 4. 4.  and too little spiritual joy. 15. 
t Heb. 3. 8.  Hardness of heart, benumbedness of Conscience, or hellish terrors and accusations, proceeding from doing things without or against the Word of God.   

Sins against the second Commandment.  
1. 
u Act. 17. 23.  Base and unwarranted conceits of God, as when we frame any Image of him in our minds. 2. 
w Exod. 34. 14.  Worshipping of Images; 3. 
x Rev. 19 10.  Adoration of Angels, 
y Isa. 63. 16.  or Saints, observing holy days, in devotion to them, 
z Deut. 6. 13.  or swearing by them. 4. Approbation of Idolatry, by presence, speech, gesture, silence; 
a Deut. 7. 25.  keeping of superstitious Relics, and Monuments; 
b 1 Cor. 5. 10.  keeping familiar and unnecessary company with Idolaters, etc. 5. 
c Tit. 3. 1.  Neglect of any of God's ordinances, as of preaching, hearing, reading, meditation, conference, the use of good Books, and of good Company, of private and public prayer, fasting, and making of vows. 6. 
d Psal. 76. 11.  Superstitious fasting, rash vows, breach of lawful vows, abuse of lots, etc. and want of sorrow for being borne of Idolatrous parents, or forefathers.   

Sins against the third Commandment.  
1. 
e 2 Sam. 12. 13.  Profession joined with profaneness, whereby God's name is dishonoured: 2. 
f Deut. 6. 6.  Abusing of God's Word, either by fruitless speaking of it, or 
g Pro. 17. 7.  framing jests out of it, or against it, or by maintaining of sin out of it, or by applying it to charms. 3. 
h Deut. 28. 59  Abusing the names or titles of God, either by way of admiration, as by saying in our common talk; O Lord, O Jesus, or else by cursing, 4. 
i Zech. 8. 17.  Swearing vainly, outrageously, or falsely: 5. Blasphemy. 6. Taking a lawful oath without reverence or consideration. 7. 
k Eccles. 5. 1.  Praying without faith, feeling, reverence, fervency, not waiting for an answer; ask evil things, aiming 
l Mat. 6. 4.  more in our requests at the relieving of our necessities, then at the advancement of God's glory. 8. 
m Act. 10 33.  Hearing, reading, meditating, conferring, singing of Psalms, and receiving the Sacrament without preparation, attention, reverence, delight and profit. 9 
n Psal. 8. 3.  Lightly passing over God's great works of creation, preservation, redemption; as also of other his mercies and judgements.   

Sins against the fourth Commandment.  
1. 
o Exod. 20. 8.  Neglect of preparation for the Sabbath before it come, and of fitting our hearts for holy services when it is come: 2. 
p 1 Tim. 4. 13.  profane absence from, or unfruitful presence at God's Ordinances; 3. 
q Luk. 17. 27.  Excessive eating and drinking, thereby making ourselves drowsy, and unfit for duties; 4. 
r Deut. 5. 14.  Doing any ordinary work of our calling; 5. All recreations which distract us; 6. 
s Isa. 58. 13.  Vain and worldly thoughts and speeches; 7. 
t Amos 8. 5.  A secret desire that the Sabbath were over; 8. Neglect of calling ourselves or others to a reckoning after the exercises are ended; 9 Giving liberty to ourselves in the night before the Sabbath be ended.   

Sins against the fifth Commandment.  

Sins of children in respect of their parents.  
1. 
u Prov. 15. 10.  Murmuring at their parents corrections, or any 
x Ephes. 6. 1.  disobedience to any lawful command, 
y Pro. 30. 17.  or contemning them for any defect of body or mind; 2. 
z Pro. 23. 22.  Unthankfulness, manifested in not relieving them, nor standing for their deserved credit.   

Sins of Parents.  
1. 
a Ephes. 6. 4.  Negligence, in not instructing their children betimes, or 
b Pro. 19 18.  not correcting them till it be too late, or doing it with bitterness, without compassion, instruction, and prayer. 2. 
c Joh. 13. 13.  Giving them ill example; 
d Gen. 4. 2.  not bringing them up in some lawful calling: 4. 
e 1 Cor. 7. 36.  Not bestowing them timely and religiously in marriage: 5. 
f 1 King. 1. 6.  Light behaviour before them, and too much familiarity with them, whereby they become vile in their eyes; 
g Gen. 21. 7.  a sin peculiar to the mother, is refusing to nurse her children, when she is able and fit.   

The sins of servants.  
1. ʰ Idleness in their calling: 2. 
i 1 Cor. 4. 2.  unthriftiness and unfaithfulness in dealing with their 
g Rom. 12. 11.  Master's goods, and affairs, stealing from them, or any way defrauding of them. 4. 
k Col. 3. 22.  Eye-service. 5. Any expression of disobedience to any lawful command.   

The sins of Masters.  
1. 
l Gen 18. 19  Unadvised entertainment of sinful servants: 2. Not using religious exercises with them, not admonishing, or 
m Pro. 29. 19  correcting them, or doing it in an ill manner, or being more 
n Luke 10. 41.  troubled when they fail in their business, then when they are slack in God's service. 3. 
o James 5. 4.  Not recompensing their labours, by giving them a due reward for their service. 4. 
p Mat. 8. 6.  Neglect of them in their sickness or unjust stopping of their wages for that time.   

The sins of wives.  
1. 
q Ephes. 5. 33.  Failing in reverence, which appeareth in froward looks, speeches, and behaviour; 2. Disobedience in the 
r Exod 23. 24.  smallest matters.   

The sins of the husband.  
1. 
s 1 Pet. 3. 7.  Not dwelling with his wife: 2. Neglect of 
t 1 Thes. 5. 11.  edifying her by instruction and example: 3. denying her comfortable maintenance and employment.   

The sins common to them both.  
1. 
u Col. 3. 14.  Want of love: 2. Bewraying each others infirmities, or discovering each others secrets: 3. 
x Tit. 2. 4.  Jealousy: 4. Contention.   

The sins of Subjects.  
1. Rebellion. 2. 
y Rom. 13. 7.  Refusing to pay deuce.   

The sins of Magistrates.  
1. 
z Rom. 13 3, 4.  Carelessness in establishing and promoting true Religion: 2. Carelessness of maintaining peace, and not providing that offenders may be punished, and well-doers encouraged.    

Sins against the sixth Commandment.  
1. 
a Mar. 5. 22.  Rash anger, envy, 
b 1 Joh. 3. 15.  hatred, malice: 2. 
c Ephes. 4. 31.  Brawling, reviling, threatening and provoking of others: 3. Fight: 4. Cruelty in punishing, oppression: 5. 
d Deut. 5. 17.  Murdering ourselves or others, or consenting thereunto. 6. Immoderate worldly sorrow. 7. Neglect of the use of means, either for the good of soul or body.   

Sins against the seaventh Commandment.  
1. 
e Deut. 5. 10.  Adultery, fornication, incest, rage, sodomy. 2. 
f Ephes. 5. 3.  All wantonness, secret or open, alone or with others: 3. 
g 38. 10.  Nocturnal pollutions, lustful dreams: 4. 
h 2 Cor. 4. 16.  Unholy marriages, in regard of Religion, age, nearness of blood, want of parent's consent: 5. 
i Gal. 5. 13.  Nourishing of the causes and occasions of wantonness, as impure lusts, gluttony, drunkenness, idleness, lascivious apparel, society with lascivious persons, lewd books, songs or speeches, wanton looks, pictures, stageplayss, dancing, dalliance, etc.   

Sins against the eight Commandment.  
1. 
k Col. 3. 5.  Covetousness, and all desire of our Neighbour's goods, robbing of ourselves, by wastfulnesse in diet, apparel, gaming, idleness, unadvised suretyship, niggardliness, etc. 2. 
l Pro. 18. 9  Robbing of others, in taking away the 
m Deut. 5. 19  smallest things, either by 
n 1 Thes. 4 6.  fraud, or uncharitable enclosure, or dealing wrongfully with the goods of the deceased, or by deceit in buying or selling, or withholding things committed, or things sound, lent, earned, or otherwise due, 
o Luke 19 8.  not making of restitution, or counselling, or consenting to others in any of these things.   

Sins against the ninth Commandment.  
1. 
p Deut. 5. 20.  False witness-bearing in public or private, or consenting thereunto: 2. 
q Zech. 8. 17.  Raising, spreading abroad, or 
r Levit. 19 16.  listening to false reports of tale-bearers: 3. Rash suspicion, 
s Mat. 7. 1.  hard judging, interpreting things in the worst sense. 4. 
t James 3. 17.  Aggravating and discovering others infirmities, without care of their credit, others edification, or our own good. 5. Flattering, lying, whether in jest or to a good end, boasting: 6. Want of care of our own or others good name, that God might have the more glory.   

Sins against the last Commandment.  

u Deut. 5 21.  The least evil motion or thought of failing in any of the foresaid duties, either to God, or to our neighbour, 
x Rom. 7 7.  although we consent not to it, but do abhor it presently, or doing any of the foresaid duties, with any spirit of vain glory, or any other by-respect, and not in zeal of 
y 1 Cor. 10. 31.  God's glory, and the good of our neighbour.   
FINIS.   

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