A37046:1006
The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. There would be in the duties of this day more intenseness of Spirit, and a further degree of spiritual affections, then in these duties of other days; because this day is purposely set apart for that end▪ and by continuance in duties we may attain to more of a spiritual frame, and because not only the Exercises of Worship, praying, reading and hearing▪ &c. call to Holiness on this day, as they do on other days, but even the very day it self doth call to it; even as on a solemn day of humiliation men ought to be more affected and deeply humbled then on other days (though daily they should repent and be humbled) because that day is solemnly set apart for it; so ought our worship to be more intense and solemn this day ⟨p. 177⟩suitable unto it, wherein we are, as it were, dieted for insisting and persisting in duties of worship; where as these duties in this respect, and in comparison, are on other days, but as starts, worship is here some way the only work of that day.
5. There would be in the duties of this day more intenseness of Spirit, and a further degree of spiritual affections, then in these duties of other dayes; because this day is purposely set apart for that end▪ and by continuance in duties we may attain to more of a spiritual frame, and because not onely the Exercises of Worship, praying, reading and hearing▪ &c. call to Holiness on this day, as they do on other dayes, but even the very day it self doth call to it; even as on a solemn day of humiliation men ought to be more affected and deeply humbled then on other dayes (though daily they should repent and be humbled) because that day is solemnly set apart for it; so ought our worship to be more intense and solemn this day ⟨p. 177⟩suitable unto it, wherein we are, as it were, dyeted for insisting and persisting in duties of worship; where as these duties in this respect, and in comparison, are on other days, but as starts, worship is here some way the only work of that day.