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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. Ye will see it thus practised and pressed before the Flood; God was honoured and worshipped in families after it (before the Law) by Abraham, Job, and others in their Families; under it, there was the Observation of it, and that by peculiar Ordinances, as namely, by the Passover yea, it is mentioned, and that most expressly in the very Law, as is said; it was kept up under the Captivity, and after the return renewed by Zachariah especially; yea, it is also renewed in the New Testament, whereby it appeareth to be of very special Observation; from all which it is not a little commended to us.
3. Ye will see it thus practised and pressed before the Flood; God was honoured and worshipped in families after it (before the Law) by Abraham, Iob, and others in their Families; under it, there was the Observation of it, and that by peculiar Ordinances, as namely, by the Passover yea, it is mentioned, and that most expresly in the very Law, as is said; it was kept up under the Captivity, and after the return renewed by Zachariah especially; yea, it is also renewed in the New Testament, whereby it appeareth to be of very special Observation; from all which it is not a little commended to us.
4. If we consider the many ways whereby the Scriptures press this duty, it will be found that there is hardly any duty more cleared and pressed then it. Its pressed: 1. By Command? 2. By examples of Godly-men held forth as Patterns for imitation. 3. By promises made to it, and 4. By blessings conferred on the conscientious practisers of it, Genes. 18. Deut. 11. verse 18. 19. 20. 21. 5. As evidencing sincerity, Genes. 18. Joshua 24. 6. As making Folks liable to the curse and wrath of God when neglected.