A37046:553
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.
It may be marked, by the way, that often profane men are more strict in keeping sinful Oaths, then those which are lawful: the Devil putting home that obligation on them as a snare, and their own corruption siding with the Oath in its matter, maketh it appear strongly binding to them.
It may be marked, by the way, that often prophane men are more strict in keeping sinful Oaths, then those which are lawful: the Devil putting home that obligation on them as a snare, and their own corruption siding with the Oath in its matter, maketh it appear strongly binding to them.
If it be asked, Wherein it is that an Oath bindeth more then a Promise doth?
Answ. An Oath bindeth to nothing but what is in the Promise, but it bindeth more strongly, and so the sin is greater in breaking an Oath then a Promise; because not only our truth to men is engaged in the Oath, but our reverence and respect to God also, and his dreadful Name thereby notably taken in vain.
Answ. An Oath bindeth to nothing but what is in the Promise, but it bindeth more strongly, and so the sin is greater in breaking an Oath then a Promise; because not onely our truth to men is engaged in the Oath, but our reverence and respect to God also, and his dreadful Name thereby notably taken in vain.