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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. › Commandment 1
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.
2. It requireth from us a suitable acknowledging of God in all these his Properties: As 1. That he be highly esteemed above all. 2. Loved. 3. Feared. 4. Believed and trusted in. 5. Hoped in. 6. Adored. 7. Honoured. 8. Served and obeyed. And so 9. He must be the Supreme end in all our actions, that should mainly be aimed at by us.
3. It requireth such duties as result from his Excellency, and our acknowledging him to be such a one: As 1. Dependence upon him. 2. Submission to him, and patience under cross Dispensations from him. 3. Faith resting on him. 4. Prayers put up to him, 5. Repentance for wronging him. 6. Communion, and a constant walking with him. 7. Delighting in him, 8. Meditating on him; and such other as necessarily may be inferred as duties incumbent to Creatures in such a relation to such a God, whose Excellency and worth calleth and inviteth men to all suitable duties.
3. It requireth such duties as result from his Excellency, and our acknowledging him to be such a one: As 1. Dependance upon him. 2. Submission to him, and patience under cross Dispensations from him. 3. Faith resting on him. 4. Prayers put up to him, 5. Repentance for wronging him. 6. Communion, and a constant walking with him. 7. Delighting in him, 8. Meditating on him; and such other as necessarily may be inferred as duties incumbent to Creatures in such a relation to such a God, whose Excellency and worth calleth and inviteth men to all suitable duties.
Next, it is necessary that we add some Advertisements to these Generals.