A37046:654
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 should be Necessary, that is a thing, that without many Inconveniences, cannot be in another way decided: otherwise to put God to reveal his mind, in an Extraordinary way, when there is an Ordinary at hand, is a tempting of God; even as, to leap over a Wall is, while there is an ordinary passage to go through by.
2. It should be Necessary, that is a thing, that without many Inconveniences, cannot be in another way decided: otherwise to put God to reveal his mind, in an Extraordinary way, when there is an Ordinary at hand, is a tempting of God; even as, to leap over a Wall is, while there is an ordinary passage to go thorow by.
3. It should be with a due Respect to God, acknowledging him, to be the Decisor, calling on his Name in the use of it, and looking to him for the Decision, as we see almost in all Lottings, and even of those Heathens, Jonah 1.
4. It should be gone about, in the right manner. 1. With Reverence, as if we were to hear God pronounce the Sentence, and speak his Mind; as while Saul is a-taking, the People stand before the Lord, 1 Sam. 10. 19, 22. 2. In the Faith that God guideth it; and so, without Anxiety and fear. 3. In Singleness, Committing it to Him, even in Heart, as well as in Appearance; Abstaining from all Fraud or Tricks, or any thing which may have influence, as a second cause, to mar or cast the Decision; this were a high way of mocking God, to put the Decision to Him, and yet to endeavour to give the Answer our selves,