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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.
3. The third great Idol (which is comprehensive some way of all) is a mans life, his Honour, Credit, Reputation, good Name, and Applause in the World; his own Will, Opinion, Tenets, Judgements, whereof men are most tenacious, and will not quite sometimes (as the Proverb is) an inch of their will for a span of their thrift. Thus men are said to live to themselves, 2 Cor. 5. 15. in opposition to living unto God, when self-respect swayeth them to be lovers of themselves, • Tim. 3. vers. 2. 4. and lovers of their pleasures more then God, and self-wi••ed, Tit. 1. • • Pet. 2. 10. Ah, who are free of this!
The fourth is Men of Parts, &c. who have done or may do some considerable good ⟨p. 23⟩or evil to one, or have something in them eminent beyond others: These oft-times, in regard of the fear, love, or trust, men place in them, are made great Idols.
The fifth is Lawful Contentments, as Houses, Wives, Children, unto which men are often too much addicted, and with which they are often too much taken up, even sometimes with that which is in it self very little, and so they prove their Idols.