A37046:449
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.
This will be clear. First, By considering that the thing threatened here, is, that punishment which the Breach of, or Iniquity committed against this Command, or other Commands, deserveth: yea, it is the punishment, that sinful Parents deserve, he Visiteth the Iniquities of the Fathers, on the Children, &c. But that which the Breach of this Law, or which the Parents guilt deserveth, is eternal Judgement, and not temporal only. Ergo.
This will be clear. First, By considering that the thing threatned here, is, that punishment which the Breach of, or Iniquity committed against this Command, or other Commands, deserveth: yea, it is the punishment, that sinful Parents deserve, he Visiteth the Iniquities of the Fath•rs, on the Children, &c. But that which the Breach of this Law, or which the Parents guilt deserveth, is eternal Judgement, and not temporal only. Ergo.
2 The th•ng threatened here is proportionally of the same Nature, with the thing promised afterward; the one being opposite to the other: But it were a wronging of Gods Mercy, to his People, to say, that his Mercy only looketh to Temporal Benefits. Ergo, this Threatening must also look unto, and comprehend Eternal Plagues.
2 The th•ng threatned here is proportionally of the same Nature, with the thing promised afterward; the one being opposite to the other: But it were a wronging of Gods Mercy, to his People, to say, that his Mercy onely looketh to Temporal Benefits. Ergo, this Threatning must also look unto, and comprehend Eternal Plagues.