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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. The second end of Sacraments is to seal and confirm Gods mind and revealed will to man, and to put him out of question of the truth of his promises, that so he may have a further prop to his Faith, and may draw more strong consolation from the promises of the Covenant upon this ground. In this respect they are called Seals (Rom. 4. 11.) of the Righteousness by Faith; that is, not the Righteousness of Abraham's Faith, but of his obtaining Righteousness by it, and not by works; that is, They are seals of that Covenant which offereth and promiseth Righteousness to such as believe: •o was the Tree of Life a confirmation to Adam of the promise of Life; so was Circumcision ⟨p. 57⟩to Abraham a Seal and Confirmation of the promises of the Gospel, as Gods Oath was, Hebr. 6. 18. And so are the Sacraments to us,
2. The second end of Sacraments is to seal and confirm Gods mind and revealed will to man, and to put him out of question of the truth of his promises, that so he may have a further prop to his Faith, and may draw more strong consolation from the promises of the Covenant upon this ground. In this respect they are called Seals (Rom. 4. 11.) of the Righteousness by Faith; that is, not the Righteousness of Abrahams Faith, but of his obtaining Righteousness by it, and not by works; that is, They are seals of that Covenant which offereth and promiseth Righteousness to such as believe: •o was the Tree of Life a confirmation to Adam of the promise of Life; so was Circumcision ⟨p. 57⟩to Abraham a Seal and Confirmation of the promises of the Gospel, as Gods Oath was, Hebr. 6. 18. And so are the Sacraments to us,