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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.
3. Though they bind not Simply or Absolutely, (and are not therefore to be so taken or understood) yet they tie Absolutely, 1. To the main of having God ours in Christ. 2. In other things, thus:
3. Though they bind not Simply or Absolutely, (and are not therefore to be so taken or understood) yet they tye Absolutely, 1. To the main of having God ours in Christ. 2. In other things, thus:
1. They tie us to live in no known Sin, especially Outward Sins and to delight in none. 2. To omit no Known Duty, but to essay the doing of it. 3. As to the Manner, to essay it seriously; so that though a man cannot swear, that he shall have no Corruption in him, while he is upon Earth: Yet in so far he may▪ As 1. Not to approve of it. 2. To leave no means unessayed, consisting in his Knowledge, that may help to mortify it. 3. Seriously, and in good Earnest, to be aiming at the Mortification of it, in the Use of these. And so this Tie of a Vow is, 1. As far as in us lieth. 2. As Universal as the Duty is. 3. Constant and always binding. 4. When it's taken on, we should not let it lye on, (to say so) till the Sun go down, but endeavour that we may be free of it; it bindeth us to quit Sin, as well as to eschew it. It reaches not all Infirmities, to make them Breaches; but known Sins, or the least sins stuck to.
1. They tye us to live in no known Sin, especially Outward Sins and to delight in none. 2. To omit no Known Duty, but to essay the doing of it. 3. As to the Maner, to essay it seriously; so that though a man cannot swear, that he shall have no Corruption in him, while he is upon Earth: Yet in so far he may▪ As 1. Not to approve of it. 2. To leave no means unessayed, consisting in his Knowledge, that may help to mortifie it. 3. Seriously, and in good Earnest, to be aiming at the Mortification of it, in the Use of these. And so this Tye of a Vow is, 1. As far as in us lyeth. 2. As Universal as the Duty is. 3. Constant and always binding. 4. When it's taken on, we should not let it lye on, (to say so) till the Sun go down, but endeavour that we may be free of it; it bindeth us to quit Sin, as well as to eschew it. It reaches not all Infirmities, to make them Breaches; but known Sins, or the least sins stuck to.