The law unsealed

Abominations of our Hearts▪ and by digging, hath discovered Great Abominations, and Greater, and yet, Greater than these He that searcheth Jerusalem with Candles, hath by putting the Candle of the True Meaning, of the Law of the Lord into his Hand, made him go down and search into the very Inward Par•s of the Belly, and Bowels of the Corruption of our Nature▪ and to Ransack the most Retired Corners of the Close Cabinet of the Deep Deceitfulness, and Desperate Wickedness, that is lodged and locked up in our Hearts▪ He hath given to him as it were, the end of the Clew of Search, whereby he hath ⟨image 9⟩•ollowed and sound us out, in those many Turnings, and Traversings, Windings and Wanderings, of the Labyrinth of this great Mystery of Iniquity that worketh in us. He hath therein also, marvellously helped him with Exquisite Skill, as it were Anatomically to dissect, even to some of the very smallest C•pillar Veins; a great part of the Vast Body, of the many & various Duties succinctly summed up in these Ten Words, of this Holy Law: A Transumpt and Double whereof, was •s Volley Written, and deeply engraven upon the fleshly tables of the Author's heart, and one the whole of his Visible Deportment, as readily hath been on many of the Sinful Sons of Adam. Not to detain thee long; Let me for provoking, and persuading, to consider what the Blest Author, being now dead, yet speaketh in this Choice Treatise (and more especially to the Inhabitants of Glasgow, now the Second time) only say, that amongst many other distempers of this declined and degenered Generation, there is a great itching aster some new and more notional and a loathing of old and more solid and substantial things in Religion; whereof this is a Demonstration, that though there •e very few subjects more necessary and useful than what is treated of here, yet there is almost none more generally slighted▪ as being a very common and ordinary subject, and but the Ten Commands fitter to be read and got by r••t by Children, or at best to be studied by rude and ignorant beginners by Apprentices and Christians of the lowest form in Chris School, then by Professors of greater knowledge and longer standing, who suppose themselves, and are it may be supposed by others, to have passed their Apprenticeship, to be grown Deacons in the Trade of Religion, and to have commenced masters of Art therein;