The law unsealed

However some of these things may be in themselves good, yet they are abused by some one circumstance, as in unwarrantable timing them, or in laying that weigh on them which is not warranted in the Word, which 1. Altereth the way that God has laid down. 2. Bringeth us to prefer one circumstance to another, without any warrant. 3▪ Maketh a necessity where God has left us free, and so bringeth us into Bondage.

3. We may go wrong in practising lawful duties many ways, as to the manner of performing them, when they are not so done as is required: As 1. When we do not propose to our selves the right end we should have before us. 2. When they are not done from a right inward Principle. 3. When they are done in Hypocrisy and Formality, and rested on; all which may go along with men in all Duties and Ordinances; and generally all our short-comings in the right manner of commanded duties, striketh against this Command.

3. We may go wrong in practising lawful duties many wayes, as to the manner of performing them, when they are not so done as is required: As 1. When we do not propose to our selves the right end we should have before us. 2. When they are not done from a right inward Principle. 3. When they are done in Hypocrisie and Formality, and rested on; all which may go along with men in all Duties and Ordinances; and generally all our shert-comings in the right manner of commanded duties, striketh against this Command.

Fourthly, We may also consider the breach of this Command, by taking a view of what is opposite to every thing required; and so want of Reverence in Worship▪ want of Zeal against error of false worship, not stretching our selves in all lawful endeavours to entertain and maintain the true worship of God, are here forbidden; so likewise the putting in, and keeping in unworthy Ministers; the traducing holding out, and putting out of Faithful Men; the with-drawing and Sequestring their maintenance from them; the diminishing of it, or straitening them in it. Horrid sins, though little thought of, and lightly looked on by Men, drawing no less deep before God then obstructing the free course of the Gospel, breaking up the treaty of peace betwixt God and Sinners, carried on by Faithful Ministers, as the Ambassadors of Jesus Christ; and saying on the matter that he shall not see of the fruit of the travel of his soul in the salvation of the souls of men to his satisfaction, so far as they can impede it by outing and discountenancing his Ministers, the instruments made use of by him for bringing about that last warrantably; and thus also, all Sacrilege, Simony, and the like, cometh in as breaches of this Command; and all Partiality in Church proceedings, Toleration of Errors, countenancing the spreaders of them, slighting of discipline, conversing unnecessarily and unwarrantable with such as are Excommunicate, and all unwarrantable innovating in the external worship of God; and when we are not aiming and endeavouring to have our Children and Servants, and all under our charge, brought under subjection and conformity to the Ordinances and Service of God as well as our selves.