A37046:1294
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.
4. As to the manner, it would be qualified thus, 1. That it be in obedience to God, serving him in some measure in that Calling or Trade, as well as in Prayer; and acknowledging him in the particulars of our gain: 2. That it be by faith on him, waiting, as was just now said, for the blessing from him, Psalm 127. 1. 3. That it be by a Christian way in every thing, submitting to him when a cross cometh, being without peremptoriness or anxiety, being quiet in praying, as Matth. 6. but not thoughtful: 4. That it be by trysting and ordering our care for our estate in the World, so as it may be most consistent with promoving our edification, and we not entangled with the affairs of this life, as it is 2 Tim. 2. 4. nor so hedged up and straitened with them, as to have no time for other things more necessary: In sum, our manner would be such as the heart may be kept in a good frame for praying, praising, keeping communion with God, and even for dying in the midst of our endeavours of that kind, Luke 21. 34. other ways we may be surfeited, even in cares, about lawful things, and made also indisposed for spiritual duties, as a man is by gluttony and drunkenness.
4. As to the manner, it would be qualified thus, 1. That it be in obedience to God, serving him in some measure in that Calling or Trade, as well as in Prayer; and acknowledging him in the particulars of our gain: 2. That it be by faith on him, waiting, as was just now said, for the blessing from him, Psalm 127. 1. 3. That it be by a Christian way in every thing, submitting to him when a cross cometh, being without peremptoriness or anxiety, being quiet in praying, as Matth. 6. but not thoughtful: 4. That it be by trysting and ordering our care for our estate in the World, so as it may be most consistent with promoving our edification, and we not in•angled with the affairs of this life, as it is