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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.
3. Look to it in all times and states of the Church, and ye will find it remarkably Characterized with a special Observation, As 1. In innocency it's instituted and set a part from others, and blessed: and Heb. 4. It is called the rest from the beginning of the World. 2. Before the Law was given, the Sanctification of i• was intimated as necessary. 3. In the giving of the Law it is remembered, & a Command given to us for remembering it. 4. After the Law, it is urged by the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, and kept by the Godly, Psal. 92. 5. In the time, or after the time of the Captivity the breach of it is reproved, Ezek. 20. And its Observation restored by Godly Nehemiah.
3. Look to it in all times and states of the Church, and ye will find it remarkably Characterized with a special Observation, As 1. In innocency it's instituted and set a part from others, and blessed: and Heb. 4. It is called the rest from the beginning of the World. 2. Before the Law was given, the Sanctification of i• was intimated as necessary. 3. In the giving of the Law it is remembred, & a Command given to us for remembring it. 4. After the Law, it is urged by the Prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah, and kept by the Godly, Psal. 92. 5. In the time, or after the time of the Captivity the breach of it is reproved, Ezek. 20. And its Observation restored by Godly Nehemiah.
Hitherto there is no difficulty, the pinch will lye in this, If the Scriptures speak of it as belonging to the days of the Gospel, In which (for making of it out) 1. We have these hints,