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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
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The third Conclusion is, that both Ministers in preaching, and people in practising of this Law, would carry with subordination to Christ▪ and that the duties called for here are to be performed as a part of the Covenant of Grace, and of the obligation that lieth upon us thereby, & so all our obedience to God ought still to run in that Channel.
The third Conclusion is, that both Ministers in preaching, and people in practising of this Law, would carry with subordination to Christ▪ and that the duties called for here are to be performed as a part of the Covenant of Grace, and of the obligation that lyeth upon us thereby, & so all our obedience to God ought still to run in that Channel.
If we ask how these two differ, to wit, the performing the duties of the Law, as running in the Channel of the Covenant of Grace, and the performing of them as running in the▪ Channel of the Covenant of Works, or how we are to go about the duties of the Law with subordination to Christ and his Grace? I answer, they differ in these four things, which show, that these duties are not only to be done, but to be done in a way consistent with, and flowing from Grace: which also follows from this, that in the Preface to the Commandments, he stileth and holdeth himself forth as Redeemer to be the object of our duty, and the motive of it.
If we ask how these two differ, to wit, the performing the duties of the Law, as running in the Channel of the Covenant of Grace, and the performing of them as running in the▪ Channel of the Covenant of Works, or how we are to go about the duties of the Law with subordination to Christ and his Grace? I answer, they differ in these four things, which shew, that these duties are not onely to be done, but to be done in a way consistent with, and flowing from Grace: which also follows from this, that in the Preface to the Commandments, he stileth and holdeth himself forth as Redeemer to be the object of our duty, and the motive of it.