A37046:458
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.
3. Consider, that in this Threatening, (as also in the Promise following) God doth not give or lay down a constant Rule, to which he will be tied, as if he could not do otherwise at any time; For to say that, were Derogatory to his Election, and the Sovereignty of his Grace▪ and therefore that is not the Scope: But here he giveth a Declaration of what usually, and ordinarily he doth, and what men, if he deal with them in Justice, may expect from Him: Yet it is still so to be understood, as the Son of a wicked Person, may be found to be an Elect, and the Son of a Godly Person rejected: that he may continue his Plagues longer then the third or fourth Generation, or break them off sooner when he thinketh good: For though by this, He would restrain Parents from sin▪ yet hath he a Door open to many such Children for mercy; even as the contrary promise hath many exceptions as to the Children of Godly Parents, that walk not in the paths of their Parents going before them, as many known instances of both, in Scripture, do make out▪
3. Consider, that in this Threatning, (as also in the Promise following) God doth not give or lay down a constant Rule, to which he will be tyed, as if he could not do otherwise at any time; For to say that, were Derogatory to his Election, and the Soveraignty of his Grace▪ and therefore that is not the Scope: But here he giveth a Declaration of what usually, and ordinarily he doth, and what men, if he deal with them in Justice, may expect from Him: Yet it is still so to be understood, as the Son of a wicked Person, may be found to be an Elect, and the Son of a Godly Person rejected: that he may continue his Plagues longer then the third or fourth Generation, or break them off sooner when he thinketh good: For though by this, He would restrain Parents from sin▪ yet hath he a Door open to many such Children for mercy; even as the contrary promise hath many exceptions as to the Children of Godly Parents, that walk not in the paths of their Parents going before them, as many known instances of both, in Scripture, do make out▪