A37046:645
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.
2. It is either a Mean, appointed by him to understand his mind or not; if appointed by him, then it is in so far his Ordinance, and his Name is concerned in it; if not, then it is abused.
3. The meddling with Gods Secret, or with his Will, or Way of revealing it in his Providence, must belong to this Command; but this especially, meddleth with all these: Therefore, &c.
3. The medling with Gods Secret, or with his Will, or Way of revealing it in his Providence, must belong to this Command; but this especially, meddleth with all these: Therefore, &c.
4. That which cannot be gone about, but the Name of the Lord, is either wronged or honoured, in it: must necessarily belong to this Command, for that is the scope of it: But none can Lot without either depending on God, for the ordering of, and acknowledging of him in it, when it is done; and so without honouring him, or neglecting him, and so taking his Name in vain. 1. By miskenning his Providence, and thinking to get that decided some other way. 2. By irreverent going about it. 3. By Attributing it to some other thing. 4. By not acknowledging God in it, nor submitting to it, when done so. So then these three ways men fail, and take Gods Name in vain. 1. Before the Lot. 2. In the time of it. 3. After it is past.
4. That which cannot be gone about, but the Name of the Lord, is either wronged or honoured, in it: must necessarily belong to this Command, for that is the scope of it: But none can Lot without either depending on God, for the ordering of, and acknowledging of him in it, when it is done; and so without honouring him, or neglecting him, and so taking his Name in vain. 1. By miskenning his Providence, and thinking to get that decided some other way. 2. By irreverent going about it. 3. By Attributing it to some other thing. 4. By not acknowledging God in it, nor submitting to it, when done so. So then these three wayes men fail, and take Gods Name in vain. 1. Before the Lot. 2. In the time of it. 3. After it is past.