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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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2. That it obligeth to the right manner of duties, as well as to the matter, and to every thing that belongeth to duties; and thus in its true extent it reacheth to the forbidding of all the sins that are contrary to duties commanded.
3. That it obligeth the whole man, the outward, in deeds, words, gestures, and appearances or shows; the inward, in the understanding, will, affections, memory; consciences; and so it requires that the mind, will, and whole nature be sanctified, and conform to all these Commands.
3. That it obligeth the whole man, the outward, in deeds, words, gestures, and appearances or shews; the inward, in the understanding, will, affections, memory; consciences; and so it requires that the mind, will, and whole nature be sanctified, and conform to all these Commands.
5. That it obligeth to obedience in all these always, and in the highest degree, so that the least disconformity in habit or act is a transgression, the obedience it requires is perfect in all these respects, that not only there must be no breach of any of these Commands directly, much lose a continuance in a breach; but that also 1. There must be no appearance of breaking them, 1 Thes. 3. 2. 2. There must be no consent to break them, though it come not forth to act, Matth. 5. 28. There must be no casting our selves in the way of any temptation or snare, whereby we may be enticed or occasioned (to speak so) to break them; as David was by his looking on a woman,