A37046:282
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
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.
Therefore upon these Grounds, 1. We simply condemn any delineating of God, or the Godhead, or Trinity; such as some have upon their buildings, or books, like • Sun shining with beams, and the Lords Name, Jehovah, in it, or any other way, this is most abominable to see, and a heinous wronging of Gods Majesty.
Therefore upon these Grounds, 1. We simply condemn any delineating of God, or the Godhead, or Trinity; such as some have upon their buildings, or books, like • Sun shining with beams, and the Lords Name, Jehova, in it, or any other way, this is most abominable to see, and a hainous wronging of Gods Majesty.
2. All representing of the Persons as distinct▪ as to set out the Father (personally considered) by the Image of an old man, as if he were a creature, the Son under the Image of a Lamb or young man, the Holy Ghost under the Image of a Dove, all which wrongeth the God head exceedingly▪ and although the Son was and is Man, having taken on him that nature and united it to his God▪head, yet he is not a mere m•n; therefore that image, which only holdeth forth one nature, and looketh like any man in the World, cannot be the representation of that Person, which i• God and man.
2. All representing of the Persons as distinct▪ as to set out the Father (personally considered) by the Image of an old man, as if he were a creature, the Son under the Image of a Lamb or young man, the Holy Ghost under the Image of a Dove, all which wrongeth the God head exceedingly▪ and although the Son was and is Man, having taken on him that nature and united it to his Godhead, yet he is not a meer mn; therefore that image, which only holdeth forth one nature, and looketh like any man in the World, cannot be the representation of that Person, which i God and man.