Controv. 9. That the commandement, Thou shalt not lust, is but one.

1. The Romane catechisme, which the Romanists generally follow, deuide the last com∣mandement into two, the first forbidding the coueting of things of pleasure, as the neigh∣bours wife, the other things of profit, as our neighbours house and goods: and they make the two first commandements, thou shalt haue no other Gods, &c. and thou shalt make to thy selfe no grauen image, &c. but one.

2. Contra. 1. The Apostle calleth it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a commandement, in the singular number, not commandements. 2. if they were two commandements, it should not be knowne, in what order they should be set, which before the other: for Exod. 20. it is first said, thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, but Deuter. 5.21. thou shalt not couet thy neighbours wife, is put in the first place. 3. beside, if euery particular act of coueting should make a diuerse com∣mandement, the number of them should be infinite: Pareus.

3. Pet. Martyr herein concurreth, that the precept, thou shalt not lust, is but one, but he hath here a singular opinion by himselfe: that the two first commandements, thou shalt haue no other Gods, &c. and thou shalt not make to thy selfe, &c. are but one: and the first commandement he would haue that to be, which is set as a preface before the rest, I am the Lord thy God, which brought, &c. for here it is enacted, that the Lord onely is the true God; and in this first commandement, the Gospel is offred vnto vs: for in that mention is made of their deliuerance out of Egypt; there the promise concerning Christ is contained: But this is onely a priuate opinion and a singular conceit of so learned a man, by himselfe: which may be thus reasoned against; 1. all the commandements are propounded imparatively, thou shalt not doe this, or thou shalt not doe that: but those words are vttered enuntiative, they are propounded onely, not spoken by way of commanding. 2. and if he will haue the tem∣porall deliuerance out of Egypt, to containe a promise of Christ, it is so much the rather no part of the morall commandements: for the law and faith are opposite, one containeth not nor includeth an other: as the Apostle saith, the law is not of faith, Gal. 3.12. no more is faith of the law.