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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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5. The involuntary motions of the mind which never get assent to any of these evils, nor are delighted in, yet even these are prohibited by this Law, because they flow from a corrupt Fountain, and are the Evidences of disconformity to Gods Image in our nature, and they ought not so much as to be in us. Hence doth the Apostle complain of lust, Rom. 7. though resisted by him.
6. It teacheth not only to streams of actual corruption, but to the Fountain of original sin, whereby we entertain within us the seed and incentives unto actual evils that contradict this holy Law. By all which we may see what holiness it calls for, and how ⟨p. 10⟩often (if we were examined in all the Commands by these Rules) we would be found defective and faulty, and what matter of humiliation and repentance we may have for what is past, and what challenges we may have hereafter from this Law, with what need of continual applications to the Blood of Sprinkling, and of Washings in that open Fountain, to the House of David, and Inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and uncleanness, and what need of endeavours to have our steps ordered more exactly according to it.
Before we close the Preface, I shall first add two distinctions more, then two more Rules: 3. Give you some Scriptures for your memories cause, 4. Give some directions or helps to those who make conscience to study this Law. 5. Answer and clear a special case.