A37046:1046
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.
We see now how great and grievous a sin it is to break this command, and with what care this day should be hallowed.
For 1. It's a Command of the first Table, and so the breach of it is, in some respect, more then murder, Adultery, Stealing, &c, it's included in the first and great Commandment,
For 1. It's a Command of the first Table, and so the breach of it is, in some respect, more then murther, Adultery, Stealing, &c, it's included in the first and great Commandement,
2. Amongst all the commands of the first Table, yea all the commands, this religious observance of the Sabbath, is most forcibly pressed with more reasons, and with more full and particular explication: Because 1. All the commands hang some way on this; and obedience is ordinarily given to them with the same readiness, as this day is employed in Gods Service, 2. It keepeth life, as it were, in all the rest, and when men are cold in this, so are they in all the rest. 3. This trieth men in their love to God best; If indeed his company and service be more delighted in than the World▪ And is a notable indication of the frame of the soul; it maketh proof both of their state and frame, as men are usually and habitually on the Sabbath, so in effect are they, as to these.
2. Amongst all the commands of the first Table, yea all the commands, this religious observance of the Sabbath, is most forcibly pressed with more reasons, and with more full and particular explication: Because 1. All the commands hang some way on this; and obedience is ordinarily given to them with the same readiness, as this day is employed in Gods Service, 2. It keepeth life, as it were, in all the rest, and when men are cold in this, so are they in all the rest. 3. This tryeth men in theirlove to God best; If indeed his company and service be more delighted in thenthe World And is a notable indication of the frame of the soul; it maketh proof both of their state and frame, as men are usually and habitually on the Sabbath, so in effect are they, as to these.