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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
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.
The fifth Scripture is, 1 Tim. 1. 8. The Law is good, if a man use it lawfully: and this guards against abusing of the Law, and putteth us to the lawful use of it: There are extremes in abusing the Law; as 1. When it is used to see Righteousness by it. Again 2. When the Authority of it is pretended for something it Warrants not, such as the Traditions of the Fathers, Matt. 15. seeking of Salvation by the observation of Circumcision, &c. 3. When its Authority in practise is denied. 4. When it is turned from practise to vain speculations and questions. 5. When it is so used as it deters and scares from Christ. 6. When it is so made use of, as it oppresses and discourages a Believer, for whose sake (1 Tim. 1. 19.) it was never made or appointed, as to its threatenings and condemning Power: And lastly, in a word, when it is not used to the ends, and in the manner expressed, in the former Scriptures.
The fifth Scripture is, 1 Tim. 1. 8. The Law is good, if a man use it lawfully: and this guards against abusing of the Law, and putteth us to the lawful use of it: There are extreams in abusing the Law; as 1. When it is used to see Righteousness by it. Again 2. When the Authority of it is pretended for something it Warrants not, such as the Traditions of the Fathers, Matt. 15. seeking of Salvation by the observation of Circumcision, &c. 3. When its Authority in practise is denyed. 4. When it is turned from practise to vain speculations and questions. 5. When it is so used as it deters and scares from Christ. 6. When it is so made use of, as it oppresses and discourages a Believer, for whose sake (1 Tim. 1. 19.) it was never made or appointed, as to its threatnings and condemning Power: And lastly, in a word, when it is not used to the ends, and in the manner expressed, in the former Scriptures.