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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.
Lastly, consider what care there is of using the means that may bring us near to, and abstaining from those things that draw us away from God, such as sinful Confederacies, evil Company, light and unsound Books, travelling needlessly to strange places, &c. all which, and whatever else taketh the heart off God, are breaches of this Commandment.
Lastly, consider what care there is of using the means that may bring us near to, and abstaining from those things that draw us away from God, such as sinful Confederacies, evil Company, light and unsound Books, travelling needlesly to strange places, &c. all which, and whatever else taketh the heart off God, are breaches of this Commandment.
Next, we shall insist more particularly upon some manifest breaches opposite to the great and principal scope of this Commandment.
1. The first is Ignorance, which is a direct breach; for the Commandment requireth us to know him, 1 Cor. 2. 8, 9. and if he be not known, there is no other duty can be rightly performed, the knowledge of God being the ground of all duties.