TO COMPREHEND the full extent of the commandments, it will be requisite to observe the following rules: Where any sin is forbidden in them, the opposite duty is implicitly enjoined; and where any duty is enjoined, the opposite sin is implicitly forbidden. Where the highest degree of any evil is prohibited, whatever is faulty in the same kind, though in a lower degree, is by consequence, prohibited; and where one instance of virtuous behaviour is commanded, every other that hath the same nature and the same reason for it, is understood to be commanded too. What we are expected to abstain from, we are expected to avoid as far as we can, and to shun all temptation to it, and occasions of it; and what we are expected to practice, we are expected to use all fit means that may better enable us to practice it. All that we are bound to do ourselves, we are bound, on fitting occasions, to exhort and assist others to do, when it belongs to them; and all we are bound not to do, we are to tempt nobody else to do, but keep them back from it whenever we have opportunity.—Bible Defended.