A37046:357
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.
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.
2. Let us instance the breach of this Command in publick 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.
We shall not here look to every thing, but especially to what concerneth public Prayer, indeed we fail also in secret Prayer, and in giving Thanks both alone and in ⟨p. 51⟩our Families. 1. By contempt of this excellent Ordinance, many slight Prayer in secret and in their Families, Jer. 10. ult. which is a clear breach of this Command as well as neglecting it in public, when men do not countenance Sermon or Prayer, though at the same time walking Idly in the Street or in the Fields. 2. By casting up of Prayer to others, reproaching it, calling it Hypocrisy, and those who use it Hypocrites. 3. By mocking the Spirits work in Prayer.
We shall not here look to every thing, but especially to what concerneth publick Prayer, indeed we fail also in secret Prayer, and in giving Thanks both alone and in ⟨p. 51⟩our Families. 1. By contempt of this excellent Ordinance, many slight Prayer in secret and in their Families, Jer. 10. ult. which is a clear breach of this Command as well as neglecting it in publick, when men do not countenance Sermon or Prayer, though at the same time walking Idlely in the Street or in the Fields. 2. By casting up of Prayer to others, reproaching it, calling it Hypocrisie, and those who use it Hypocrites. 3. By mocking the Spirits work in Prayer.