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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.
5. Distinguish betwixt Idolatry that is more gross and professed, and that which is more latent, subtle, and denied: This distinction is like that before mentioned into Opinion and practise, and much coincideth with it.
5. Distinguish betwixt Idolatry that is more gross and professed, and that which is more latent, subtil, and denied: This distinction is like that before mentioned into Opinion and practise, and much coincideth with it.
6. Distinguish betwixt Heart-Idolatry, Ezek. 14. Exod. 14. 11. 12. and 16 2, 3. and external Idolatry, the former consisteth in an inward heart-respect to some Idol, as this tumultuous people were enslaved to their case and bellies in the last two fore-cited places; the other in some external Idolatrous gesture or action.
6. Distinguish betwixt Heart-Idolatry, Ezek. 14. Exod. 14. 11. 12. and 16 2, 3. and external Idolatry, the former consisteth in an inward heart-respect to some Idol, as this tumultuous people were inslaved to their case and bellies in the last two fore-cited places; the other in some external Idolatrous gesture or action.
In practical Idolatry we are to distinguish betwixt the letting out of our affections upon simply sinful objects, and the letting them out excessively upon lawful objects. Thus men are guilty of Idolatry with sinful objects, when they love and covet another mans House, Wife, or Goods, when things unlawful and forbidden have the heart. Again, men are guilty of Idolatry in making lawful objects Idols; as when by excess or inordinateness of love to their own Means, Wife, House, &c. they put them in Gods room, as Nebuchadnezzar did with Babylon,