A37046:577
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. I say, Rightly gone about: That is, 1. Deliberately, and Judiciously; for Ignorance, Haste, and Rashness will spill all. 2. With Humility, and due sense of our own Corruption, which maketh us (Alas!) to stand in need of such Bands to keep it in, and of such Up-stirrings and Excitements to Duty. 3. With fear, singleness, and Zeal for God; with love to his Honour, and to true Holiness: Not for our self ends, to gratify an Humour or Passion, or in Fits of Conviction, to stop the Mouth of a Challenge, and so put it by.
3. I say, Rightly gone about: That is, 1. Deliberately, and Judiciously; for Ignorance, Haste, and Rashness will spill all. 2. With Humility, and due sense of our own Corruption, which maketh us (Alace!) to stand in need of such Bands to keep it in, and of such Up-stirrings and Excitments to Duty. 3. With fear, singleness, and Zeal for God; with love to his Honour, and to true Holiness: Not for our selfends, to gratifie an Humour or Passion, or in Fits of Conviction, to stop the Mouth of a Challenge, and so put it by.
4. The Vow would be heartily, and cheerfully undertaken, not as a piece of Bondage, but of Liberty, that we may be thereby indeed engaged unto the Lord having no hink or Hesitation; nor Reservation in the making of it: what can be expected as to the performance, if there be Hesitation, in the very undertaking?
4. The Vow would be heartily, and chearfully undertaken, not as a piece of Bondage, but of Liberty, that we may be thereby indeed ingaged unto the Lord having no hink or Hesitation; nor Reservation in the making of it: what can be expected as to the performance, if therebe Hesitation, in the very undertaking?