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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
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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.
10. The tenth and last Rule is, the Law is holy, just, and good: therefore the least motion against it, or discontentment with it, is sin, Rom. 7. 12. In sum: take these few watch-words concerning the obligation of the Law.
1. That it obligeth to all duties, and to all sorts of duties, public, private to God, to others, and to our selves: and that words, actions, gestures, yea thoughts, and the least motions of the heart, come under its obligation: his Commandment is exceeding broad, so that there is nothing so little, but it ought to be ruled by this Word, and that in all persons of all Ranks, whether as to doing or suffering.
1. That it obligeth to all duties, and to all sorts of duties, publick, private to God, to others, and to our selves: and that words, actions, gestures, yea thoughts, and the least motions of the heart, come under its obligation: his Commandment is exceeding broad, so that there is nothing so little, but it ought to be ruled by this Word, and that in all persons of all Ranks, whether as to doing or suffering.