A37046:697
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. Believe, and be persuaded of the reality of this Truth concerning the terribleness of the reckoning for this sin, and the fearful Judgement that will certainly follow it.
2. Believe, and be perswaded of the reality of this Truth concerning the terribleness of the reckoning for this sin, and the fearful Judgement that will certainly follow it.
3. Use and mention his Name reverently in Prayer, Hearing, Conference, &c. For, habituating our selves to formality in such duties, maketh way ordinarily for more gross violations of this commands; and study to be more affected even when narratively ye are telling something wherein his Name is mentioned, then otherwise.
4. Tremble at this sin, and suitably resent it; when ye hear it in others, be affected with it, and labour to make them so, that ye may thus train your selves to an abominating of that evil.
5. Let it never pass in your selves, especially, without some special g•ave Animadversion: Look back on all your life, and see if ye can remember when and where ye were grossly guilty; reflect on your worship, and observe omissions and defects, at lest in respect of what ye might have been at, and learn to loath your selves for these, and to be in bitterness for them; especially if the escapes have been more late and recent, let them not sleep with you, lest ye be hardened, and the Sentence stand in force unrepealed against you; What? will ye sleep, and this Word stand in the Bible on record as a Registered Decree against you?