A37046:773
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 shall here, 1. show you, that, This Command holdeth forth a Family, or Domestic Worship. 2. We shall confirm it more largely from other Scriptures, and grounds of Reason. 3. We shall show, wherein it consisteth in particular, and on whom it mainly lieth to be discharged. 4. We shall show the advantages, of conscientious discharging of it, and the Prejudices of neglecting it, with the Aggravations of that sin.
We shall here, 1. shew you, that, This Command holdeth forth a Family, or Domestick Worship. 2. We shall confirm it more largely from other Scriptures, and grounds of Reason. 3. We shall shew, wherein it consisteth in particular, and on whom it mainly lyeth to be discharged. 4. We shall shew the advantages, of conscientious discharging of it, and the Prejudices of neglecting it, with the Aggravations of that sin.
That there is such a thing as Family-worship, included in this Command, will be clear, by considering, 1. What worship to God in general is. 2. What Family-worship is. 3. What this Command requireth
1. By worship, is understood some Tribute payed, by the reasonable Creature to God, as the great and sovereign Lord Creator; whether it be immediately and directly payed, and performed to him, as prayer and praise; or for him and at his Command, and for his honour, as preaching, hearing, and receiving of Sacraments; which are worship, when rightly gone about. In a word, we call that worship, more strictly and properly, which is a duty of the first Table; and cometh in as commanded in it, for the honour of God, and not for our own, or others external profit; which, though commanded in the second Table, cannot be so properly called worship, much less Immediate - worship. Thus, Teaching others the Duties of Piety, may be worship, when teaching the Duties of any other ordinary calling, is not.