A37046:1111
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.
There are some Questions that do arise from what is said:
1. Quest If all men should be honoured? Yea, if even wicked men also?
Answ. 1. Wicked men known to be such cannot be honoured, as if they were gracious; neither can any place or dignity, merely as such, have what is due and proper to grace attributed to it without guilt, the doing whereof we conceive ⟨p. 200⟩is that sin reproved by James chap. 2. 1. to wit, the accounting of rich men, that were wicked to be more religious then others not so rich, and possibly there may be much guilt of this sin in Titles and Dedications of Books▪ where the most religious pious, &c. are often unwarrantably put among the Styles.
Answ. 1. Wicked men known to be such cannot be honoured, as if they were gracious; neither can any place or dignity, meerly as such, have what is due and proper to grace attributed to it without guilt, the doing whereof we conceive ⟨p. 200⟩is that sin reproved by James chap. 2. 1. to wit, the accounting of rich men, that were wicked to be more religious then others not so rich, and possibly there may be much guilt of this sin in Titles and Dedications of Books▪ where the most religious pious, &c. are often unwarrantably put among the Styles.