A37046:616
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. That God in Justice hath sentenced that sin with impenitency, and unpardonableness, making that one sin thus Capital and unpardonable; thereby to scare the more from thwarting with his Spirit, he has denied ever to give them that are guilty of it, Repentance, and hath said, that he will plague them with spiritual impenitency unto the end.
3. That God in Justice hath sentenced that sin with impenitency, and unpardonableness, making that one sin thus Capital and unpardonable; thereby to scare the more from thwarting with his Spirit, he has denyed ever to give them that are guilty of it, Repentance, and hath said, that he will plague them with spiritual impenitency unto the end.
Fifthly, Blasphemy may be considered as it is. 1. Doctrinal, or maintained by some men in their Tenets, such were those of the old Heretics, such are those of the Pelagians, Papists, and Arminians, as to the nature of Providence, and the work of Grace upon hearts, or 2. As it is in expressions indeliberately brought forth, or 3. In Oaths, as when men swear by the Wounds, Blood, Soul, &c. of our blessed Lord, which as they are horrible to hear, so is it reproachful to his Majesty, that these should be so abused, or 4. In Deeds. Writing, Painting, Acting, Representing any thing Derogatory to him, which are also charged with Blasphemy, in abusing Gods Name to such ends. 5. It may be in a high Degree, when men act such a Blasphemy, or consequently when they punish it not, when we do not rent our Clothes (as it were) at the hearing and seeing such things in Testimony of our sorrow and Detestation (which was the sin of the Princes, Jerem. 36. verse 24, 25. Who though they were some-what displeased, yet they had not zeal vigorous against that wicked Deed of the King:) When we have not suitable hatred ⟨image 67⟩against such & such blasphemous Doctrines, Rev. 1. 23. much more if we Extenuate them Defend them, or Plead for them, or 6. It may be either, as we are guilty of it by our own Deeds, or when we make our selves guilty of the blasphemy of others, as having sinfully occasioned it to them, tempted them to it, and laid such and such a stumbling before them, as is said of David,