A37046:644
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.
That Lots in the use of them, concern this Command, these things will make it out several ways. 1. That which putteth God to it, in an immediate way, concerneth this Command, especially; I mean, whatever putteth him to declare his mind, or reveal himself, that putteth him to it, and is a special implicit invocating of Him: But Lots or Lotting, putteth him to it, in an immediate way; For, 1. None other can dispose of them but he, Prov. 16. 33. 2. What is discovered by those Lots, is either Gods mind or the Devils, or is by chance; but it cannot be any of the latter two, therefore it is the first. 3. It is the putting him to it, more then he is by Prayer: Because, 1. It is by an Extraordinary way, and often added to Prayer. 2. It is for the manifesting of a secret Decree; For by it, we are to understand, what God has appointed, and Eternally decreed, concerning such an event. Hence it is, that in Scripture, Prayer is so often, if not always joined with it; and therefore it must in a special manner belong to this Command: Yea, if God be slighted in it, he is wronged: if acknowledged according to his Interest, he is in a special manner concerned, where he wholly ordereth the thing.
That Lots in the use of them, concern this Command, these things will make it out several wayes. 1. That which putteth God to it, in an immediate way, concerneth this Command, especially; I mean, whatever putteth him to declare his mind, or reveal himself, that putteth him to it, and is a special implicite invocating of Him: But Lots or Lotting, putteth him to it, in an immediate way; For, 1. None other can dispose of them but he, Prov. 16. 33. 2. What is discovered by those Lots, is either Gods mind or the Devils, or is by chance; but it cannot be any of the latter two, therefore it is the first. 3. It is the putting him to it, more then he is by Prayer: Because, 1. It is by an Extraordinary way, and often added to Prayer. 2. It is for the manifesting of a secret Decree; For by it, we are to understaud, what God has appointed, and Eternally decreed, concerning such an event. Hence it is, that in Scripture, Prayer is so often, if not alwayes joyned with it; and therefore it must in a special manner belong to this Command: Yea, if God be slighted in it, he is wronged: if acknowledged according to his Interest, he is in a special manner concerned, where he wholly ordereth the thing.