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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
AN EXPOSITION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, Delivered in several LECTURES. › Preface
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.
EXOD. 20. 1. 2. (And God speak all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God. Which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.
EXOD. 20. 1. 2. (And God speake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God. Which have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.
Being (through Gods strength (resolved to Essay the opening of the Ten Commandments, all that we shall say, by way of Preface, shall be to give you an account of the Motives which have engaged us in this Work.
BEing (through Gods strength (resolved to Essay the opening of the Ten Commandments, all that we shall say, by way of Preface, shal be to give you an account of the Motives which have engaged us in this Work.
The first is the Excellency of this Scripture, it being by the Lord himself intended as a comprehensive sum of his peoples duty, and commanded to us from this, that though all the Scripture be his Word, yet this in a singular manner is so; for he spake all these words himself, and by a Voice immediately formed by himself he pronounced them first to his people, and afterward twice by his Finger (that is, immediately by himself, without making use of any Pen-man, as in other Scriptures) he wrote them for his peoples behoof upon two Tables of Stone, which were afterwards commanded in a singular manner to be kept in the Ark,