A37046:446
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. It importeth a severe Indignation, against every thing which giveth ground of suspicion; it cannot abide that: Hence jealousy is called, The Rage of a Man, Prov. 6. 38. This Wrong will not be endured, when many others will be dispensed with. Any thing that seemingly slighteth him, or inclineth the Heart to another, is to jealousy insufferable. These two, after the manner of men (as many other things) are applied to God, to show that he will not admit, that which is suspicious-like in his service; but if his People depart from him in deviating in the least from the Rule given, He will be provoked to be avenged on them for it. This is the force of the Reason: The Commination or Threatening added, confirmeth this; it is in these Words, Visiting the Iniquities of the Fathers on the Children. To Visit here, is, To punish the Children, for the Fathers faults; though God should seem for the time to forget the Breaches of this Command, and not to take notice of Corruptions introduced by men in his worship; yet, saith he, I will Visit, or revenge that Iniquity, not only upon the present Race, but upon the following, even upon the third and fourth Generation.
2. It importeth a severe Indignation, against every thing which giveth ground of suspition; it cannot abide that: Hence jealousie is called, The Rage of a Man, Prov. 6. 38. This Wrong will not be endured, when many others will be dispensed with. Any thing that seemingly slighteth him, or inclineth the Heart to another, is to jealousie insufferable. These two, after the manner of men (as many other things) are applyed to God, to shew that he will not admit, that which is suspicious-like in his service; but if his People depart from him in deviating in the least from the Rule given, He will be provoked to be avenged on them for it. This is the force of the Reason: The Commination or Threatning added, confirmeth this; it is in these Words, Visiting the Iniquities of the Fathers on the Children. To Visit here, is, To punish the Children, for the Fathers faults; though God should seem for the time to forget the Breaches of this Command, and not to take notice of Corruptions introduced by men in his worship; yet, saith he, I will Visit, or revenge that Iniquity, not only upon the present Race, but upon the following, even upon the third and fourth Gen•ration.