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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.
In the next place, we would consider the negative part of this Commandment, for the extent thereof will be best discerned by considering what is forbidden therein, and how it may be broken: It is indeed the Commandment, in reference to which, beyond all the rest, almost the generality of men think themselves most innocent; and yet upon trial it will be found, that men are most guilty of the breach thereof: We may look upon the breach of this Commandment more largely, as God is any way wronged in that which is his due; or more strictly, as it relateth to that which is more properly Idolatry.
In the next place, we would consider the negative part of this Commandment, for the extent thereof will be best discerned by considering what is forbidden therein, and how it may be broken: It is indeed the Commandment, in reference to which, beyond all the rest, almost the generality of men think themselves most innocent; and yet upon tryal it will be found, that men are most guilty of the breach thereof: We may look upon the breach of this Commandment more largely, as God is any way wronged in that which is his due; or more strictly, as it relateth to that which is more properly Idolatry.
Being more largely considered, it is broken two ways.
Being more largely considered, it is broken two wayes.
1. When what is proper and Essential to God, is denied to him in effect, or practically; as when he is not accounted Eternal, Omnipotent, one blessed God in three Persons: And thus men are guilty, either in Opinion or in practise, when they walk so before God, as if they thought him not Omnipotent, Omniscient, &c. And so Tit. 1. 16