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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.
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, Jer. 7. 4. &c.
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 cryed up the Temple of the Lord, the Covenant betwixt him and them, and their external relation to him, Jer. 7. 4. &c.
The eighth is any gift of God which he hath bestowed on men, such as Beauty, Strength, Wit, Learning, when men who have them lay too much weight on them, or think too much of them; yea, Grace it self, the sense of Gods love, and inward peace, may be put in Christs room, and more sought for sometimes then Christ himself: Now when these are rested on, delighted in, and he slighted, or when they are missed, and he not delighted in, then they are Idols.