A37046:613
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.
nor yet simply, because it endeth in final impenitency (though that be with it too) since many sins are followed by that also: but we conceive it to be in these:
1. That seeing this sin (which can be said of no other sin) doth wilfully, and out of despite, reject Christ, there can be no other Sacrifice gotten to expiate it, Hebr. 10. •6. There remaineth no more sacrifice for it, and though the person after the first Commission of it may be kept a while in the Land of the living, yet the nature of that sin being to grow in malice, and to reject that remedy there being no other, and this being still wilfully and maliciously rejected, availeth them not; so their sin is never pardoned.
1. That seeing this sin (which can be said of no other sin) doth willfully, and out of despight, reject Christ, there can be no other Sacrifice gotten to expiate it, Hebr. 10. •6. There remaineth no more ••crifice for it, and though the person after the first Commission of it may be keeped a while in the Land of the living, yet the nature of that sin being to grow in malice, and to reject that remedy there being no other, and this being still willfully and maliciously rejected, availeth them not; so their sin is never pardoned.
2. That the Person guilty of this sin cannot be renewed by Repentance, the heart of him suppressing that work maliciously; this impossibility is not from the inefficacy of Grace, but from the order which God hath laid down in the working of Repentance, and in the pardoning of the Penitent; so that as he will pardon none but repenting Believers, so he will work repentance in none but in those who yield, through Grace, to his Spirits Work.