A37046:1137
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.
1. Thus Humility of one man towards another differeth from Humility towards God, because of the great disproportion that is between God and Creatures, infinitely more then any that is amongst Creatures themselves, there is in nothing comparison to be made with God, neither is there any possibility of profiting him, Job 25. 7. but there may be comparing and usefulness too, amongst Creatures which this humility taketh not away, see Job 29. throughout the Chapter.
1. Thus Humility of one man towards another differeth from Humility towards God, because of the great disp•oportion that is between God and Creatures, infinitely more then any that is amongst Creatures themselves, there is in nothing comparison to be made with God, neither is there any possibility of profiting him, Job 25. 7. but there may be comparing and usefulness too, amongst Creatures which this humility taketh not away, see Job 29. throughout the Chapter.
2. This Humility is not opposite to magnanimity, boldness and zeal, but is well consistent with these, as is clear in Christ, the Apostles and others of the Saints; for boldness and magnanimity is an adventuring in Christs strength upon what one is called to according to warrantable grounds; and humility, although it leadeth us to entertain due thoughts of our own infirmities, yet it moderateth us in that also according to right reason, so that the exercise of both being to be ordered according to this rule of reason, as the call, occasion, object, and particular circumstances shall require; It is evident that there is no inconsistency betwixt the two, but that they may very well be in one and the same person and at one and the same time.
2. This Humility is not opposite to magnanimity, boldness and zeal, but is well consistent with these, as is clear in Christ, the Apostles and others of the Saints; for boldness and magnanimity is an adventuring in Christs strength upon what one is called to according to warrantable grounds; and humility, although it leadeth us to entertain due thoughts of our own infirmities, yet it moderateth us in that also according to right reason, so that the exercise of both being to be ordered according to this rule of reason, as the call, occasion, object, and particular circumstances shall require; It is evident that there is no inconsistencie betwixt the two, but that they may very well be in one and the same person and at one and the same time.