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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 Be humble, O be humble before God, for he is jealous.
3. Abhor sin, for it is hateful.
4. Love holiness, for it is useful to us and ours: First, Thereby our Children have temporal mercies so far as is needful, Psalm 37. 26. 2. They have spiritual and saving mercies amongst them. 3. They have all Church-privileges, as being the Children of them that are within Gods Covenant.
4. Love holiness, for it is useful to us and ours: First, Thereby our Children have temporal mercies so far as is needful, Psalm 37. 26. 2. They have spiritual and saving mercies amongst them. 3. They have all Church-priviledges, as being the Children of them that are within Gods Covenant.
5. Children! Be humbled under the sense of the Iniquity of your Parents, when ye remember their ways: or possess what unjustly they have gotten, ye become guilty of their sins without Repentance. Especially you have need to take notice of this, that are the Children of Parents, that have opposed the purity of Gods Service and Worship, and the work of its Reformation, and have been Corrupters of it: Children may be partakers of their Parents faults, and so plagued for them several ways; and we think that this forfeiture is more then ordinary. And therefore, as amongst men, there are special crimes beyond ordinary procuring such a sentence, so is it here. And 1. They be guilty by following their foot-steps, in walking in their Parents sins, as Jeroboam's Children did. 2. In approving their Fathers way, praising their Fathers sayings or doings; as it is