A37046:1008
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.
7. There would be that day more divineness in our Holiness (to speak so) a sort of Majesty by ordinary in our walk, looking like the Sabbath, and like the God of the Sabbath: There would be an exulting in God that day, we would endeavour to have our hearts in a special manner warm in the Exercise of love to him, and to be much in praising of him; our Whole worship would more absolutely and immediately be aimed and levelled at the honour and glory of God, as the end of it, then on other ordinary days, wherein our prayers and other pieces of worship may more immediately respect our own Case and need▪ but on this day Gods Honour as the end more immediately whatever our own Case be, and that both in heart within and in the nature of our Exercises without; this is to call the Sabbath of the Lord honourable, to honour and glorify him, therein as it is Is, 58. a special Majesty being in that days worship by levelling it with extraordinary singleness at Gods praise, even as his name is hallowed or sanctified in Heaven by Angels and perfected Saints. Hence It's good to give thanks unto thy Name, &c. beginneth that Psalm of Praise for the Sabbath-day, to wit, the 92. These Duties then that further his praise are more especially for that day.
7. There would be that day more divineness in our Holiness (to speak so) a sort of Majesty by ordinary in our walk, looking like the Sabbath, and like the God of the Sabbath: There would be an exulting in God that day, we would endeavour to have our hearts in a special manner warm in the Exercise of love to him, and to be much in praising of him; our Whole worship would more absolutely and immediately be aimed and levelled at the honour and glory of God, as the end of it, then on other ordinary days, wherein our prayers and other pieces of worship may more immediately respect our own Case and need▪ but on this day Gods Honour as the end more immediately whatever our own Case be, and that both in heart within and in the nature of our Exercises without; this is to call the Sabbath of the Lord honourable, to honour and glorifie him, therein as it is Is, 58. a special Majesty being in that days worship by levealling it with extraordinary singleness at Gods praise, even as his name is hallowed or sanctified in Heaven by Angels and perfected Saints. Hence It's good to give thanks unto thy Name, &c. beginneth that Psalm of Praise for the Sabbath-day, to wit, the 92. These Duties then that further his praise are more especially for that day.