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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.
1. What is the right object of worship, it is Jehovah, Elohim, the Lord, that showeth the Unity of the Divine Essence; for so Jehovah, being a word in the singular number, is ordinarily looked on as pointing out this, then Elohim, which is a word in the plural number, speaketh the plurality of Persons in the God▪head; so that the Lord commanding and requiring obedience, here is one God, and three Persons.
1. What is the right object of worship, it is Jehova, Elohim, the Lord, that sheweth the Unity of the Divine Essence; for so ••hovah, being a word in the singular number, is ordinarely look't on as pointing out this, then Elo•im, which is a word in the plural number, speaketh the plurality of Persons in the God▪head; so that the Lord commanding and requiring obedience, here is one God, and three Persous.
2. It cleareth what is the right Channel in which our service should run, it is in the Channel of the Covenant, our obedience is to be directed, not to God abstractly considered, but to God as our God, I am the Lord thy God, saith he, and thy God by Covenant; so the expression is, Deut. 28. 58. That thou m••st fear this glorious and fearful Name, THE LORD THY GOD. This maketh our service and worship sweet and kindly; and without this relation there can be no acceptable service performed by sinful man to God; and that relation (that by the Covenant of Works once stood betwixt them) being broken, it saith it must be made up again, which only can be done in Christ: and it saith also, that this relation to God in him, and obedience to the Law, can consist well together.