A37046:450
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 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.
3. The scope may clear it, which is, To restrain Parents, from the sins here forbidden; because by such sins they bring Wrath, not only on themselves, but on their Posterity after them, even when they are gone, as ye have it Jerem. 32. 18. Now this reason would not have such weight, if the Plagues threatened to Parents were Eternal, and to their Children, but Temporal.
3. The scope may clear it, which is, To restrain Parents, from the sins here forbidden; because by such sins they bring Wrath, not only on themselves, but on their Posterity after them, even when they are gone, as ye have it Jerem. 32. 18. Now this reason would not have such weight, if the Plagues threatned to Parents were Eternal, and to th•ir Children, but Temporal.