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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.
2 Concerning those Devilish Lots, there is no Question of the Abominableness of them; such as fore-telling of Fortunes, Horo-Scopes, or Deaths; the finding of things lost by naming of all suspected Persons, turning the Ri d e, &c.
2 Concerning those Devilish Lots, there is no Question of the Abominablen•ss of them; such as fore-telling of Fortunes, Horo-Scopes, or Deaths; the finding of things lost by naming of all suspected Persons, turning the Ri d e, &c.
Yet 3. We dare not condemn all Divisory Lots, if rightly gone about.
Because, they are frequently made use of, in the Scripture: Joshua 7. 13, 14, and 15 &c. Acts 1. Yea, they seem to be from the Light of Nature, Jonah 1. 2. The use of them, is Moral and perpetual, Prov. 18. 18. To cause Contentions to cease, and to part between the Mighty. 3. When they are rightly gone about, they are a Honouring of God, and are a Manifest acknowledging of his Providence. I say, Rightly gone about: Where, 1. The matter should be weighty or of some Consequence; that is, It should either be weighty in it self; or it should be so by some Con equence, or Inconvenience; making a light thing in it self weighty, otherwise it is (as Swearing is, in a matter of no moment) but a baffling of his Ordinance.
Be•ause, they are frequently made use of, in the Scripture: