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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. The fifth way of committing this Idolatry is by service, when a man is brought under the power of any thing; so whatever a man serveth this way is an Idol, every predominant, every person or humour that a man setteth himself thus to please is an Idol: in this respect it is said men cannot serve two Masters, God and Mammon; and if we yet serve men, we are not the Servants of Christ, Gal. 1. 10. This may be known, 1. By what men are most excessively taken up with, and most careful to fulfil and accomplish. 2. By looking to what it is for which they will take most pains that they may attain it. 3. By what getteth most of their time and labour. 4. By what overswayeth, and overcometh, or overaweth them most, so that they cannot resist it, though it thrust by duties to God; and when they are ne▪ver so taken up with Gods service, but it indisposeth them when ever they come to immediate worship; it is an evident token that such a thing is the mans •dol.
5. The fifth way of committing this Idolatry is by service, when a man is brought under the power of any thing; so whatever a man serveth this way is an Idol, every predominant, every person or humour that a man setteth himself thus to please is an Idol: in this respect it is said men cannot serve two Masters, God and Ma•mon; and if we yet serve men, we are not the Servants of Christ, Gal. 1. 10. This may be known, 1. By what men are most excessively taken up with, and most careful to fullfil and accomplish. 2. By looking to what it is for which they will take most pains that they may attain it. 3. By what getteth most of their time and labour. 4. By what overswayeth, and overcometh, or overaweth them most, so that they cannot resist it, though it thrust by duties to God; and when they are ne▪ver so taken up with Gods service, but it indisposeth them when ever they come to immediate worship; it is an evident token that such a thing is the mans •dol.