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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.
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.
A sixth is Self-righteousness, mens prayers, their repentance, blameless, walking, &c. these may get, and often get more of their confidence, and weight of their Eternal Peace, then they should: So the Jews laid the great stress and weight of their Salvation upon this Idol, Rom. 10. 3.
The seventh may be outward Ordinances in purity, external forms, and profession of Religion, when men rest upon these, and press not after the Power; as the Jews▪ who cried up the Temple of the Lord, the Covenant betwixt him and them, and their external relation to him,