Of the ninth commandment
It requires all due Care to preserve the good Name and Honour of other Men, as well as our own; for Christians are not to be of narrow and private Spirits, which center only in their own Interests and Concernments, Phil. 2:4 Look not every Man on his own Things; but every Man also on the Things of others.
Of the tenth commandment
It is to prevent all Occasions of transgressing the other Precepts of the second Table, by restraining this Sin of Covetousness in the Heart, Psa 119:35-36 Make me to go in the Path of thy Commandments : for therein do I delight. Incline my Heart unto thy Testimonies ; and not to Covetousness.
<blockquote> It forbids all Cruelty and Incompassionateness to others in Necessity, and keeping back from them that Relief which is made theirs by God’s Command, Prov 11:24 –There is that with-holdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to Poverty, Lev 19:9-10 And when ye reap the Harvest of your Land, thou shalt not wholly reap the Corners of thy Field, neither shalt thou gather the Gleanings of thy Harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy Vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every Grape of thy Vineyard : thou shalt leave them for the poor and Stranger : I am the Lord your God.
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