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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
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5. Consider what is opposite to Fear and Reverence, and there you will find much carnal security and vain confidence in it, obstinacy, stout-heartedness, little trembling at his Word, not being affected with his Judgments, rashness and irreverence in his Service, whereas there is a general fear in all our walk called for, Prov. 23. 17. We ought to be in the fear of the Lord all the day long; and there is a peculiar fear called for in the Ordinances of his Worship, Eccles. 12. 23. Mal. 1. 6. which was commended in Levi, Mal. 2. 5. On the other hand, opposite to this, is that carnal fear and anxiety, which is commonly called servile and slavish fear, and the fear of man which bringeth a snare, Prov. 29. 25.
6. Look after the breaches of this Commandment, by considering what is contrary to the obedience we owe to him as God, and our God: Now internal and external obedience may both be comprehended in this, every man ought wholly to give away himself, and the use of all his faculties and members, for the Glory of God, and to him only, and to none other: And this requireth a practise that is complete, both as to the inward bent of the will and heart, and also as to all the external parts thereof, which being seriously pondered, O! how often will we find this Commandment broken? as the particular comparing of our life with the Word, and the explication of the rest of the Commandments, may easily clear and discover.
6. Look after the breaches of this Commandment, by considering what is contrary to the obedience we owe to him as God, and our God: Now internal and external obedience may both be comprehended in this, every man ought wholly to give away himself, and the use of all his faculties and members, for the Glory of God, and to him only, and to none other: And this requireth a practise that is compleat, both as to the inward bent of the will and heart, and also as to all the external parts thereof, which being seriously pondered, O! how often will we find this Commandment broken? as the particular comparing of our life with the Word, and the explication of the rest of the Commandments, may easily clear and discover.