A37046:355
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.
After hearing also, there are many ways whereby we are guilty of the breach of this Command. 1. Forgetting what we have heard. 2. Letting the heart unnecessarily look back again to other objects, and follow other thoughts, and not meditating on what hath been heard. 3. Not comparing what we have heard with the Scriptures. 4. Not following the Word with prayer for the watering of it▪ 5. Needless falling to other discourses, immediately after the hearing of the Word. 6. Casting it all aside as to practise▪ Ps. 50. verse 6. to 23. 7 Fretting at some things that have been spoken. 8. Spreading Censures: Or 9. Commendations of the thing Preached, or of the instruments that Preached, as if that were all. 10. No• following the Word with self-searching Prayer, and fruits suitable, endeavouring to practise what is required. 11. Not trembling at its threatenings, nor forbearing what was thereby discharged. 12. Not helping others to make use of it, 13. No• repenting of faults committed in the time of hearing. 14. Little delight in remembering of it. 15. Finding out shifts to put by its directions or challenges. 16. Applying them to others rather then to our selves. 17. Mis construing the Ministers end in pressing of them. 18. Mis-interpreting his words. 19. Mis-reporting or mis-representing them. 20. Not being troubled for fruitlessness in hearing▪ without any use, but being as a stone without sense or feeling. 21. Leaning o• hearing, as if having been in the Church were a piece of holiness, though no fruit follow on it. 22. Profane abusing words of Scripture, or phrases used in preaching▪ in mens common discourse; much more when they are mixed in wanton and profane sports▪ or jests and gybes.
After hearing also, there are many wayes whereby we are guilty of the breach of this Command. 1. Forgetting what we have heard. 2. Letting the heart unnecessarily look back again to other objects, and follow other thoughts, and not meditating on what hath been heard. 3. Not comparing what we have heard with the Scriptures. 4. Not following the Word with prayer for the watering of it 5. Needless falling to other discourses, immediately after the hearing af the Word. 6. Casting it all aside as to practise