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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
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.
are these fables cunningly devised and told by the Non conformists-Preachers? ⟨image 9⟩Did the Apostle thunder the great Anathema Ma•an••h•, against men for their not h•• ing a mere Romantic end fancied love to the Lord Jesus? (the execution of which dreadful doom will •e a solid proof of its reality, and a sad reproof for denying it to be so.) Dare the most proud, petulant, perverse, and prodigiously profane prater, pretending but to the name of a Christian, say it? If these most real love Communications and intercourses betwixt the Lord Christ and the believing Soul, be but Romances, then the whole Bible (whereof these make so considerable and so comfortable a part) may be reckoned a Romance (which be like this Romantic Divine will not so much demur making small account therefore, and audaciously alleging the English Bible to be a Book in some places erroneous, in •ome scarce sense and of dangerous consequences; loath would he be to deal so by Grand Cyrus, Cleopatra, and his other darling Romance•?) if there be no real but Romantic and feigned love betwixt Christ and the Christian, then no real Christianity, no real Christ (whom this new Doctor dreadfully debaseth under the poorly palliated pretext of exalting him, affirming, that his unparalleled civility, and the obliginness of his deportment, seems to be almost as high an evidence of the Truth and Divinity of his Doctrine, as his unparalleled miracles were, otherwise he would be a base and pro••ig•t Impostor; what would this young Divine) for old Divines, and even great Calvin b• name, amongst the rest, he despiseth as a company of ••lly Systematics) have said and thought of the Divinity of the person end Doctrine of blessed Jesus, if when on earth he had more frequently (as he might and probably would have done under the same circumstances) spoke and deals so roughly and roundly as he did when he called Herod a Fox, and scourged the buyers and sellers out of the Temple, and had seemed to be as uncivil and of as little obliging a Deportment as his harbinger, John Baptist, he would be like have doubted of his Divinity, and deemed him but bae Impostor, if not peremptorily pronounced that he had a Devil) No real Redemption, no real Redeemer; no real misery, no real mercy; no real Heaven, no real Hell (but ah! the real acting of its story will easily and quickly refute this Romantic conception of it.)