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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.
4. When they pass under a lawful name, as when Pride goeth under the name of Honesty, Anxiety under the name of Lawful Care, &c. then they are hardly discovered.
5. When sticking to one Idol, the man rejecteth all others, (as he conceiveth) out of respect to God, as may be instanced in the cases of a Monastic li•e, regular obedience, some singular opinion so much stuck to, and laid weight on by many.
5. When sticking to one Idol, the man rejecteth all others, (as he conceiveth) out of respect to God, as may be instanced in the cases of a Monastick li•e, regular obedience, some singular opinion so much stuck to, and laid weight on by many.
6. When it is in means that have been used, or are allowed by God for attaining such an end; as it is hard to keep bounds in this case, so it is hard to discover the Idolatry of the heart in it.
In all which it is to be advertised, that Idolatry in these things consisteth mostly in the inordinateness of the heart, and affections to them, and that it lieth not so much in our actions about them, as in the manner of our acting, and the circumstances accompanying us and our actions, anxiety, estimation, excessive care, love, &c.