A37046:476
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.
The Second thing to be cleared, is, What is meant by taking his Name in v•i• ▪ To take his Name (as it's Psal. 50. 16. and 16. 4.) is to mention any of those things before spoken of (which are so many pieces of his Name) or any way to meddle with them in thought, word, or deed, as by writing, or otherwise: In vain dot• not only comprehend, 1. False Swearing, or Blaspheming, Charming, and wh•• is wrong as to the matter: Nor 2. Only propane abusing of the Lords Name when the matter is right, by rashness, precipitancy, frequency in Swearing: Nor 3. Doth it only mean unnecessary Swearing when it may be forborne: But 4. I• vain is also when it's not mentioned or made use of to good purpose, that is t• God's honour, the edification of others and of our selves; so when ever Gods name is any way meddled with without fruit, its in vain.
The Second thing to be cleared, is, What is meant by taking his Name in v•i• ▪ To take his Name (as it's Psal. 50. 16. and 16. 4.) is to mention any of those things before spoken of (which are so many pieces of his Name) or any way to meddle with them in thought, word, or deed, as by writing, or otherwise: In vain dot• not only comprehend, 1. False Swearing, or Blaspheming, Charming, and wh•• is wrong as to the matter: Nor 2. Only propane abusing of the Lords Name when the matter is right, by rashness, precipitancy, frequency in Swearing: Nor 3. Doth it only mean unnecessary Swearing when it may be forborn: But 4. I• vain is also when it's not mentioned or made use of to good purpose, that is t God's hononr, the edification of others and of our selves; so when ever Gods name is any way medled with without fruit, its in vain.