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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.
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. it is said of some, that they profess to know God, but in works they deny him.
2. It is broken, when any thing unbecoming the Holy Majesty of God is attributed unto him; as that he changeth, favoureth profanity, &c. So Psalm 50. 21. it is said of some profane men, that they thought him like unto themselves. These two may be called more general Idolatry; we shall speak further to them afterward.
2. It is broken, when any thing unbecoming the Holy Majesty of God is attributed unto him; as that he changeth, favoureth prophanity, &c. So Psalm 50. 21. it is said of some prophane men, that they thought him like unto themselves. These two may be called more general Idolatry; we shall speak further to them afterward.