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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.
3. The third way it is broken (considering the breach of this Commandment strictly) is by attributing that which is due to God, and properly belongeth to him, to Creatures; as trusting in them, calling on them by prayer, accounting them Omnipotent, Omniscient, or believing that they have influence or power to guide the World, which some do attribute to Stars, to the Heavens, to Fortune, to Saints, to Angels, yea to Devils, this is properly Idolatry: And because it is the chief scope of this Commandment, and we are bidden expressly to keep our selves from Idols, 1 John. 5. we shall insist a little on it.
3. The third way it is broken (considering the breach of this Commandment strictly) is by attributing that which is due to God, and properly belongeth to him, to Creatures; as trusting in them, calling on them by prayer, accounting them Omnipotent, Omniscent, or believing that they have influence or power to guide the World, which some do attribute to Stars, to the Heavens, to Fortune, to Saints, to Angels, yea to Devils, this is properly Idolatry: And because it is the chief scope of this Commandment, and we are bidden expresly to keep our selves from Idols, 1 John. 5. we shall insist a little on it.
And 1. We shall premit some distinctions of Idolatry, 2. Show how men fall in it. 3. What are the special Idols men commit Idolatry with. 4. Which are the most subtle and dangerous Idols. 5. Give some rules whereby ye may try this sin of Idolatry, even when it is most subtle.
And 1. We shall premit some distinctions of Idolatry, 2. Shew how men fall in it. 3. What are the special Idols men commit Idolatry with. 4. Which are the most subtil and dangerous Idols. 5. Give some rules whereby ye may try this sin of Idolatry, even when it is most subtil.