A37046:356
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.
All these ways men may sin, when they come to hear the Word; they sin also by absence when they come not, neglecting the opportunities of the Gospel; there are also divers sins which men are often guilty of in reference to hearing, even on week days: As 1. Little love to the Word, or delight in the opportunities of it on such days. 2. Too much love to some other things that procureth luke-warmness in hearing. 3. Contemning occasions of hearing the Word on such days. 4. Improvidently bringing on a necessity on our selves that we cannot hear. 5. Caring little to have a Ministry, whereby we may be instructed at all times, and therefore we want such occasions. 6. Setting our selves, and using our wits to discourage the Ministers we have▪ 7. Not being weighted on, with our absence from weekdays Sermons. 8. Mocking at them who are present. 9. Dis-respecting the Ordinance for some worldly or personal respects, preferring any small trifle thereto, &c.
All these wayes men may sin, when they come to hear the Word; they sin also by absence when they come not, neglecting the opportunities of the Gospel; there are also divers sins which men are often guilty of in reference to hearing, even on week dayes: As 1. Little love to the Word, or delight in the opportunities of it on such dayes. 2. Too much love to some other things that procureth luke-warmness in hearing. 3. Contemning occasions of hearing the Word on such dayes. 4. Improvidently bringing on a necessity on our selves that we cannot hear. 5. Caring little to have a Ministry, whereby we may be instructed at all times, and therefore we want such occasions. 6. Setting our selves, and using our wits to discourage the Ministers we have▪ 7. Not being weighted on, with our absence from weekdayes Sermons. 8. Mocking at them who are present. 9. Dis-respecting the Ordinance for some worldly or personal respects, preferring any small trifle thereto, &c.
2. Let us instance the breach of this Command in public prayer, which is a part of worship, which very nearly concerns the glory of God; and certainly when it is wronged through the unsuitable, and nor right discharging of this duty, this Command is in a special way broken.