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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.
And 1. Idolatry may be distinguished, 1. Into Idolatry against the first Commandment, when worship is not directed to the right, but to the wrong object▪ and Idolatry against the second Commandment, which striketh against the prescribed manner of worshipping God: We are now to speak to the first▪
2. This Idolatry is either 1. Doctrinal, or Idolatry in the Judgement, when one professedly believeth such a thing beside God to have some Divinity in it; as Heathens do of their Mars and Jupiter▪ and Papists do of their Saints: Or 2. It is practical, when men believe no such thing▪ and will not own any such Opinion▪ yet on the matter they are guilty of the same thing as covetous men, &c. The first taketh ⟨p. 20⟩in all Heathens, Turks, Heretics, that by their Doctrines and Opinions wrong the true God, or his worship: The second taketh in all self-seeking, ambitious, covetous, and voluptuous persons, &c. who fall in with the former in their practise, though not in Opinion.
2. This Idolatry is either 1. Doctrinal, or Idolatry in the Judgement, when one professedly believeth such a thing beside God to have some Divinity in it; as Heathens do of their Mars and Jupiter▪ and Papists do of their Saints: Or 2. It is practical, when men believe no such thing▪ and will not own any such Opinion▪ yet on the matter they are guilty of the same thing as covetous men, &c. The first taketh ⟨p. 20⟩in all Heathens, Turks, Hereticks, that by their Doctrines and Opinions wrong the true God, or his worship: The second taketh in all self-seeking, ambitious, covetous, and voluptuous persons, &c. who fall in with the former in their practise, though not in Opinion.