Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour's."--Exodus xx. 17. EXCEEDING broad is the reach of a the Commandments of God; but how specially so is the Tenth! For here the Divine Spirit compasses not merely the deeds and words of man, but also the thoughts and imaginations of his heart. Here, where no human eye can penetrate, the all-seeing Lord bears witness to the inner work, whether it be good or whether it be evil. Here the axe is laid to the very root of that tree which brings forth, as its deadly fruit, all manner of sin against our neighbour. Here is that profound revelation of self, that awful revelation of God, which awakes the conscience to action, for, as St. Paul tells us, "I had not known sin but by the Law; for I had not known lust," that is, I had not known the peril of wrong desire, its fatal tendency, its final issue, "except the Law had said, 'Thou shalt not covet.'"« Yet, strange to say, it is just this Commandment which hardly any one fancies he has broken. It has been said by a suggestive writer of our own, that "earnest, sincere people, who have no hypocrisy about them, who make no scruple of avowing their faults when they know them, who readily admit and grieve over their offences against every other Commandment, are quite sure that they are free from blame on the Tenth." a But probably few persons fully understand what coveting is; or if they do know the meaning of the term, they fail to note its application either on its negative or on its positive side--that is, as to the sins which it condemns or the duties which it bids us fulfil. If we will try to give our minds to this matter, an...
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