A37046:342
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.
Secondly, It is broken when his Ordinances are diminished, and any thing which he hath commanded, is taken away from them, as is clear from Deut. 4. 2. Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought there from: and thus they break this Command, by taking away the Cup from L•icks (as they call them) in the Lords Supper, and the use of the Bible from the People in their own Language; also it is broken by taking away Baptism from Infants, and Discipline or Excommunication from the Church, and by taking away the Sabbath-day, and public singing of Psalms, or such like; not to speak of that Blasphemous, and some-way Pagan-Heresy of Quaquerisine, over-turning most, if not all the Ordinances of God, destructive to all true Religion and Christianity, and introducing, at least having a native tendency to introduce, old Paganism and Barbarity.
Secondly, It is broken when his Ordinances are diminished, and any thing which he hath commanded, is taken away from them, as is clear from Deut. 4. 2. Ye shall not add unto the Word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought there from: and thus they break this Command, by taking away the Cup from L•icks (as they call them) in the Lords Supper, and the use of the Bible from the People in their own Language; also it is broken by taking away Baptism from Infants, and Discipline or Excommunication from the Church, and by taking away the Sabbath-day, and publick singing of Psalms, or such like; not to speak of that Blasphemous, and some-way Pagan-Heresie of Quaquerisine, over-turning most, if not all the Ordinances of God, destructive to all true Religion and Christianity, and introducing, at least having a native tendency to introduce, old Paganism and Barbarity.
Thirdly, This Command is broken by corrupting of Gods worship, as when the Word is mis-interpreted and mis-applied, Prayers are used in a strange Tongue, the Word is mixed with Errors, and the Church, both left without Discipline and abused in civil things, which tendeth to the corrupting of Gods Service; unqualified-men put into the Ministry and kept in it, when Sacraments are rested on and worshipped, even as the Brazen Serpent was abused, and the Temple though appointed by God at first for good ends, was afterward rested on and Idolized.