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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.
Our purpose is not to aim at any great accuracy, nor to multiply questions and digressions, nor to insist in application and use, but plainly and shortly (as we are able) to give you the meaning of the Law of God: 1. By holding forth the Native Duties required every Commandment. 2. The sins which properly oppose and contradict each Commandment, that by these we may have some direction and help in duty, and some spur to repentance, at least a furtherance in the work of Conviction, that so by it we may be led to Christ Jesus, who is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believes, Rom. 104. which is the principal intent of this Law, as it was given to Israel.
Our purpose is not to aim at any great accuracy, nor to multiply questions and digressions, nor to insist in application and use, but plainly and shortly (as we are able) to give you the meaning of the Law of God: 1. By holding forth the Native Duties required every Commandment. 2. The sins which properly oppose and contradict each Commandment, that by these we may have some direction and help in duty, and some spur to repentance, at least a furtherance in the work of Conviction, that so by it we may be led to Christ Jesus, who is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that belives, Rom. 104. which is the principal intent of this Law, as it was given to Israel.
To make way for the Exposition, we shall 1. Lay down some Conclusions which arise from the Preface. 2. Give you some ordinary distinctions. 3. Clear and confirm some Rules or Observations useful for understanding of the whole Law.
The first Conclusion that we take for granted is, that this Law (as 'tis Moral) doth tie even Christians and Believers now, as well as of old; which appears from this, that he who is God the Law-giver here, Acts 7. 38