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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.
7. The sin of impatience, which is opposite to that patience and submission we owe to God in his ways and Dispensations, is one of the special breaches of this Commandment: it is very broad, and doth many ways discover it self: As 1. In fretting at Events which befall us. 2. In not submitting cheerfully to Gods way with us but repining against it. 3. In wishing things had fallen out otherwise then God hath disposed. 4. In limiting God, and prescribing to him, thinking that things might have been better otherwise. 5. In not behaving himself thankfully for what he doth, even when his Dispensations and cross and afflicting.
7. The sin of impatience, which is opposite to that patience and submission we owe to God in his wayes and Dispensations, is one of the special breaches of this Commandment: it is very broad, and doth many wayes discover it self: As 1. In fretting at Events which befall us. 2. In not submitting chearfully to Gods way with us but repining against it. 3. In wishing things had fallen out otherwise then God hath disposed. 4. In limiting God, and prescribing to him, thinking that things might have been better otherwise. 5. In not behaving himself thankfully for what he doth, even when his Dispensations and cross and afflicting.
8. This Commandment is broken by the many sins which are opposite to that Adoration and high esteem, that we should have of God in our hearts; he ought to have the Throne, and be set far up in our minds and affections; but oh! how many are there that will not have one serious thought of him in many days, and are far from being taken up with him, or wondering at him and his way with sinners, &c.
8. This Commandment is broken by the many sins which are opposite to that Adoration and high esteem, that we should have of God in our hearts; he ought to have the Throne, and be set far up in our minds and affections; but oh! how many are there that will not have one serious thought of him in many dayes, and are far from being taken up with him, or wondering at him and his way with sinners, &c.