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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. 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.
3. It may be distinguished into Idolatry that hath something for its object, as the Egyptians worshipped Beasts, and the Persians the Sun or Fire, and that which has nothing but mens imaginations for its object, as these who worship feigned Gods; in which respect the Apostle saith, an Idol is nothing,