A37046:1073
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.
Exodus 20. 12. Honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Exodus 20. 12. Honour thy Father and thy Mother, that thy dayes may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
OUR Lord Jesus Christ, Matth. 22. 37. sumeth up the whole Law in these two words, which he calleth the two great Commandments, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy Neighbour as thy self, the two legs that Piety in practise walketh upon; the one comprehendeth our duty to God, which runneth through all thee Ten Commands, but doth more eminently exert it self in the first Four, whereof we have spoken: The other containeth our duty to our Neighbour; which is set down more particularly in the last Six Commands, whereof we are now to speak; and how eye, many do ignorantly and wickedly look on duty to man as somewhat extrinsic to Religion, and duty to God, yet both have the same authority, both are put in oh sum of the Law, both are written on Tables of Stone with the Lords own finger▪ and put within the Ark: And therefore we ought with a proportionable ear to inquire what God requireth of us as duty to others, as well as to himself: And we should make no less conscience of obedience to the one then to the other,
OUR Lord Jesus Christ, Matth. 22. 37. sumeth up the whole Law in these two words, which he calleth the two great Commandements, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and thy Neighbour as thy sef, the two leggs that Piety in practise walketh upon; the one comprehendeth our duty to God, which runneth through all thee Ten Commands, but doth more eminently exert it self in the first Four, whereof we have spoken: The other containeth our duty to our Neighbour; which is set down more particularly in the last Six Commands, whereof we are now to speak; and how eye, many do ignorantly and wickedly look on duty to man as somewhat extrinsick to Religion, and duty to God, yet both have the same authority, both are put in ohe sum of the Law, both are written on Tables of Stone with the Lords own finger and put within the Ark: And therefore we ought with a proportionable eare to inquire what God requireth of us as duty to others, as well as to himself: And we should make no less conscience of obedience to the one then to the other,