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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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, Delivered in several LECTURES. › Preface
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.
8. The breach of one Commandment virtually breaks all; there is such a connection and linking together of the Commandments, that if the Authority of God be •lighted in one, it is so in all, Jam. 2. 10. 1. John 4. 20.
8. The breach of one Commandment virtually breaks all; there is such a connexion and linking together of the Commandments, that if the Authority of God be •lighted in one, it is so in all, Jam. 2. 10. 1. John 4. 20.
9. On thing may in divers respects (as an end or means) be commanded or forbidden in many, yea in all the Commandments▪ as ignorance and drunkenness are, because they disable for all duties, and dispose to all sins: Of this kind is idleness also; and so knowledge, sobriety, watchfulness▪ &c. are commanded in all the Commandments; for without these men are unfitted and incapacitated for performing any commanded duty.