The law unsealed

who someway disdain and account it below them to stay a while and talk with Moses at the foot of Mount-Sinai, as if they could per saltum▪ or by one Falcon-flight come at the top of Mount Zion, and there converse with and make use of Jesus Christ; whence it cometh to pass that not a few are lamentably ignorant of the very letter of the Law, and many more but little infight in the spiritual meaning thereof; which ignorance is waited with many unspeakable great prejudices (that are to be considered with respect to the various states of men, as regenerate or unregenerate▪ and the several degrees of their ignorance) 1. It very much incapacitateth for self-searching and examination, a considerable piece, •ea a sort of • spring of the exercise of Godliness, How I pray, can a person to any purpose search and try his heart and ways, being altogether, or in a great measure ignorant of the rule according to which the search ought to be accomplished? 2. It keepeth men much inacqainted with and great strangers to the knowledge of themselves, of their state, frame and walk, so that they can seldom or never be in case to make a knowing distinct and feeling representation of the posture of their spiritual affairs to God. 3. It is the Mother and Nurse not of any true Devotion (as Papists ignorantly or impiously avert) but of much carnal security and false peace; the uninformed or ill informed conscience of the sinner being misconced from and sadly secured against the most just and best grounded challenges▪ being often ignorant when fin is committed, and when duty is omitted or unduly performed; every fin being a transgression of this Law, and every duty a piece of conformity to it; How can a man be ignorant altogether or in great part of the just extent and spiritual meaning thereof, be as he ought, challenged and accused by his own conscience either for the Commission of the one, or for the Omission or mis-performance of the other? 4. It not ably obstructeth the exercise of humiliation, repentance and self loathing; for how can the breaches of this Law in Omissions, and Commissions, be distinctly and particularly repented of and mourned for, when they are not so much as known to be breaches of the Law in general, let be of what particular command thereof?

who someway disdain and account it below them to stay a while and talk with Moses at the foot of Mount-Sinai, as if they could per saltum or by one Falcon-flight come at the top of Mount Sion, and there converse with and make use of Jesus Christ; whence it cometh to pass that not a few are lamentably ignorant of the very letter of the Law, and many more but little infight in the spiritual meaning thereof; which ignorance is waited with many unspeakable great prejudices (that are to be considered with respect to the various states of men, as regenerate or unregenerate and the several degrees of their ignorance) 1. It very much incapacitateth for selfe-searching and examination, a considerable piece, ea a sort of spring of the exercise of Godliness, How I pray, can a person to any purpose search and try his heart and ways, being altogether, or in a great measure ignorant of the rule according to which the search ought to be accomplished? 2. It keepeth men much inacqainted with and great strangers to the knowledge of themselves, of their state, frame and walk, so that they can seldome or never be in case to make a knowing distinct and feeling representation of the posture of their spiritual affairs to God. 3. It is the Mother and Nurse not of any true Devotion (as Papists ignorantly or impiously avert) but of much carnal security and false peace; the uninformed or ill informed conscience of the sinner being misconced from and sadly secured against the most just and best grounded challenges being often ignorant when fin is committed, and when duty is ommitted or unduly performed; every fin being a transgression of this Law, and every duty a peice of conformity to it; How can a man be ignorant altogether or in great part of the just extent and spiritual meaning thereof, be as he ought, challenged and accused by his own conscience either for the Commission of the one, or for the Omission or mis-performance of the other? 4. It not ably obstructeth the exercise of humiliation, repentance and self loathing; for how can the breaches of this Law in Omissions, and Commissions, be distincty and particularly repented of and mourned for, when they are not so much as known to be breaches of the Law in general, let be of what particular command thereof?