A37046:787
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. By this Command there is more required then secret or solitary sanctifying of the Sabbath, even a peculiar sanctification of it within one Family distinct from another: I say▪ 1. more then solitary worship, because the Lords saying thou, without repeating Son, Daughter, &c. had been sufficient to have laid it on all separately for themselves; the enumeration therefore of the whole Members of a Family must import some other thing, for the former is implied in all Commands, as Thou shalt not kill, that is, as far as in thee lieth, thou nor thy Son, &c. There must I say, be something more understood by the peculiar enumeration pressed in this fourth Command. I say, 2. Even a peculiar worship, because it's something laid on by this Command which is holden within Gates or doors, and neither goeth to the Congregation, nor to the persons of other Families, at least ordinarily, but reacheth the Members of such a Family who are within such a ⟨p. 135⟩Mans Gates or Doors; therefore it must be a distinct Family-worship mainly performed by that Family together.
2. By this Command there is more required then secret or solitary sanctifying of the Sabbath, even a peculiar sanctification of it within one Family distinct from another: I say▪ 1. more then solitary worship, because the Lords saying thou, without repeating Son, Daughter, &c. had been sufficient to have laid it on all separately for themselves; the enumeration therefore of the whole Members of a Family must import some other thing, for the former is implyed in all Commands, as Thou shalt not kill, that is, as far as in thee lyeth, thou nor thy Son, &c. There must I say, be something more understood by the peculiar enumeration pressed in this fourth Command. I say, 2. Even a peculiar worship, because it's something laid on by this Command which is holden within Gates or doors, and neither goeth to the Congregation, nor to the persons of other Families, at least ordinarily, but reacheth the Members of such a Family who are within such a ⟨p. 135⟩Mans Gates or Doors; therefore it must be a distinct Family-worship mainly performed by that Family together.