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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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it must either be because they are sinful, that being his aim to defile them thereby, and draw them to sin, or because they are troublesome and heavy to men, he having delight also in mens misery, but such dreams are no way weighty and troublesome to the most part of men, that therefore is not his aim, nor would they be so much burdensome to others, were it not from their apprehension of guilt under them; and therefore Satan's aim must be thereby to defile men with sin.
it must either be because they are sinful, that being his aim to defile them thereby, and draw them to sin, or because they are troublesome and heavy to men, he having delight also in mens misery, but such dreams are no way weighty and troublesome to the most part of men, that therefore is not his aim, nor would they be so much burdensome to others, were it not from their apprehension of guilt under them; and therefore Satans aim must be thereby to defile men with sin.
2. Argument which confirmeth the former, (and let us consider it with reverence) our blessed Lord Jesus was made in all things like unto us, except sin, none of the fruits of original sin, which are sinful, are to be found in him; and yet, I suppose, none can without horror imagine such dreams to have been incident to him, or that his absolute Holiness was capable of them. He is the only instance of one free from original sin, yet may he be supposed liable to any other penal thing, excepting 1. What implies sin. 2. What implies distempers and infirmities in the contemperature and constitution of his body from inward causes, because he had no inward cause, being free of sin as Adam before his Fall; and therefore not naturally (I mean from inward principles, or necessity, as we are) subject to sickness or death.
2. Argument which confirmeth the former, (and let us consider it with reverence) our blessed Lord Jesus was made in all things like unto us, except sin, none of the fruits of original sin, which are sinful, are to be found in him; and yet, I suppose, none can without horrour imagine such dreams to have been incident to him, or that his absolute Holiness was capable of them. He is the only instance of one free from original sin, yet may he be supposed lyable to any other penal thing, excepting 1. What implies sin. 2. What implies distempers and infirmities in the contemperature and constitution of his body from inward causes, because he had no inward cause, being free of sin as Adam before his Fall; and therefore not naturally (I mean from inward principles, or necessity, as we are) subject to sickness or death.