A37046:680
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.
We come now to the threatening or certification wherewith this Command is pressed, The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain. In which, three things are contained: 1. The fearfulness and terribleness of the Judgement and Punishment, whereby the Lord will avenge the breach of this Command. 2. The Extent of it, as to every particular individual person sound guilty, the Lord will not hold him guiltless. Him, whoever he be, whatever he be; if there were but one, he shall not escape; and if there be many, not one of them shall be missed or passed by in this reckoning. 3. There is the peremptoriness and infallible certainty of it, God will not be dissuaded from it, nor will he alter this Sentence, but it must and shall stand against him.
We come now to the threatning or certification wherewith this Command is pressed, The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh His Name in vain. In which, three things are contained: 1. The fearfulness and terribleness of the Judgement and Punishment, whereby the Lord will avenge the breach of this Command. 2. The Extent of it, as to every particular individual person sound guilty, the Lord will not hold him guiltless. Him, whoever he be, whatever he be; if there were but one, he shall not escape; and if there be many, not one of them shall be missed or passed by in this reckoning. 3. There is the peremptoriness and infallible certainty of it, God will not be disswaded from it, nor will he alter this Sentence, but it must and shall stand against him.
The punishment is implied in that, Not to be holden guiltless, wherein there is more contained then is expressed, implying these Three: 1. That he shall not be forgiven nor absolved, and so shall never enjoy Gods favour and friendship, which no man, who hath sinned, can without pardon, enjoy; thus the Judgement is negatively to be understood, He shall never enter into Heaven, nor see the Face of God, if he repent not. 2. Positively it implieth that he shall be found guilty, and shall be dealt with as a guilty person, that he shall be eternally condemned, shut out from Gods presence, and cast into Hell to be there tormented for ever ⟨p. 114⟩