A37046:774
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.
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.
1. By worship, is understood some Tribute payed, by the reasonable Creature to God, as the great and soveraign Lord Creator; whether it be immediatly 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.