A37046:1214
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.
It doth confirm this, that dancing is not pleaded for or delighted in, as it is a recreative motion, but as promiscuous with women, which beside the great provocation to lust spoken of, occasioneth that both much time and expense is bestowed on learning this which is attended with no profit.
What we have said of these evils may also take in excess in sleeping, laziness, &c. to be seen in David, 2 Sam. 11. 2. and also vain curiosity, as well as lasciviousness in singing and playing; too much whereof favours of wantonness and riotousness, as these words Rom. 13. 13. are in their signification extended by some. Now all these excesses spoken of, being opposite to sobriety and modesty, shame▪ ⟨p. 226⟩fastness and gravity, must come in under wantonness, and what followeth, doth come in under intemperance.
What we have said of these evils may also take in excess in sleeping, laziness, &c. to be seen in David, 2 Sam. 11. 2. and also vain curiosity, as well as lasciviousness in singing and playing; too much whereof favours of wantonness and riotousness, as these words Rom. 13. 13. are in their signification extended by some. Now all these excesses spoken of, being opposite to sobriety and modesty, shame▪ ⟨p. 226⟩fasteness and gravity, must come in under wantonness, and what followeth, doth come in under intemperance.