A37046:424
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.
For 1. It is hard to think, a Communion is celebrated, but there is one or more who should not be admitted, and the admission of one or two, as well as of many is a profaning of the Ordinance: yea, if we thought them to be scandalous; yea, if we knew them not to be holy, we could not in Faith communicate with them, left the Ordinance be defiled by us, if their defiling were ours.
For 1. It is hard to think, a Communion is celebrated, but there is one or more who should not be admitted, and the admission of one or two, as well as of many is a prophaning of the Ordinance: yea, if we thought them to be scandalous; yea, if we knew them not to be holy, we could not in Faith communicate with them, left the Ordinance be defiled by us, if their defiling were ours.
2. The presen•e of a Hypocri•• would defile it to us, for his Hypocrisy defileth i• to him, and he has not right before God▪ to come, neither would it warrant us that we knew not: For 1. Many do sin▪ when they kn•w not. 2▪ It is not our knowing his sin that defileth the Sacrament, but it is his Hypocrisy and […] 3. […] the same Sacrament might be as Gods Ordinance participated warrantably by one who knew not, and not by another who knew this; which were hard to make out.
2. The presen•e of a Hypocri•• would defile it to us, for his Hypocrisie defileth i• to him, and he has not right before God▪ to come, neither would it warrant us that we knew not: For 1. Many do sin▪ when they knw not. 2 It is not our knowing his sin that defileth the Sacrament, but it is his Hypocrisie and 3. the same Sacrament might be as Gods Ordinance participated warrantably by one who knew not, and not by another who knew this; which were hard to make out.