A37046:352
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.
And 1. Before hearing the Word men break this Command. 1. In not Praying for the speaker. 2. In not Praying for themselves, in reference to this end, that they may profit by the Word▪ 3. In not setting themselves to be in a spiritual composed frame for such a work. 4. In not watchfully preventing what may divert them or distract them, or straiten their minds when they come to hear, not ordering their other affairs, so as they may not be a hinderance to them in meeting with the blessing of the Gospel. 5. In not aiming to have the right esteem of the Word. 6. In not blessing God for it, or for any good received before by it. 7. In not coming with hunger and thirst, as new born Babes, having laid aside what may hinder its, being received with desire, 2 Pet. 2. 1, 2, 8. In not denying our own strength, as to the right discharge of that duty, that so we may make use of Christ. 9. In not minding that when we are called to hear, it is to tryst with God in his Ordinances▪ 10. In going to hear with prejudice. 11. In coming without expectation of, and longing for the presence of God, or of meeting with him. 12. In not coming from respect to the honour of God; nor out of Conscience, but from custom, and for the fashion.
And 1. Before hearing the Word men break this Command. 1. In not Praying for the speaker. 2. In not Praying for themselves, in reference to this end, that they may profit by the Word▪ 3. In not setting themselves to be in a spiritual composed frame for such a work. 4. In not watchfully preventing what may divert them or distract them, or straiten their minds when they come to hear, not ordering their other affairs, so as they may not be a hinderance to them in meeting with the blessing of the Gospel. 5. In not aiming to have the right esteem of the Word. 6. In not blessing God for it, or for any good received before by it. 7. In not coming with hunger and thirst, as new born Babes, having laid aside what may hinder its, being received with desire, 2 Pet. 2. 1, 2, 8. In not denying our own strength, as to the right discharge of that duty, that so we may make use of Christ. 9. In not minding that when we are called to hear, it is to tryst with God in his Ordinances▪ 10. In going to hear with prejudice. 11. In coming without expectation of, and longing for the presence of God, or of meeting with him. 12. In not coming from respect to the honour of God; nor out of Conscience, but from custome, and for the fashion.