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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.
These be the most ordinary ways how men fall in this sin of Idolatry: it were hard to speak of all the several Idols which may be loved, feared, rested on too much, and so put in Gods room: I shall instance in a few.
These be the most ordinary wayes how men fall in this sin of Idolatry: it were hard to speak of all the several Idols which may be loved, feared, rested on too much, and so put in Gods room: I shall instance in a few.
The first is the World; this is the great Clay-Idol that both covetous and voluptuous men hunt after, crying, Who will show us any good? Psalm 4. 6. By this thousands are kept in bondage, and turned head long: An excessive desire to have the World's Goods, and to have by these a name in the Earth, is many a mans Idol.
The first is the World; this is the great Clay-Idol that both covetous and voluptuous men hunt after, crying, Who will shew us any good? Psalm 4. 6. By this thousands are kept in bondage, and turned head long: An excessive desire to have the World's Goods, and to have by these a name in the Earth, is many a mans Idol.
A second is the Belly, Philip. 3. 19. a shameful God, yet worshipped by the most part of men, who travel for no more but for a portion in this life to fill the Belly, Psalm 17. 14. to win their living, and provide for their Families. To this sort also belongeth Gluttons, Drunkards, Palate-pleasers, (who are look upon as the dainty men in the World, abounding alas in our days) being according to Satan's Maxim, ready to give skin for skin, and all they have for their life; and aiming at no more,