A37046:812
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. The Lord by his Covenant doth especially (though not alway) derive mercies to Families taking them in together, and making promises to them, and conferring privileges on them. So Abraham's whole Family was taken in Covenant, Genes. 17. And in the New Testament whole Families were at once Baptized, which certainly calleth them to a peculiar way of being answerable to such privileges and engagements: And is not this one special and very proper way of being answerable to them, that they worship God together, and join in blessing him for such mercies, and in prayer to him for grace to carry suitably to them?
3. The Lord by his Covenant doth especially (though not alway) derive mercies to Families taking them in together, and making promises to them, and conferring priviledges on them. So Abrahams whole Family was taken in Covenant, Genes. 17. And in the New Testament whole Families were at once Baptized, which certainly calleth them to a peculiar way of being answerable to such priviledges and ingagements: And is not this one special and very proper way of being answerable to them, that they worship God together, and joyn in blessing him for such mercies, and in prayer to him for grace to carry suitably to them?
4. The mutual interest that usually is in the condition of members of the same Family, calleth for joint-seeking of God, and worshipping of him, as they are jointly concerned in the same dangers, the same sins often, the same strokes, the same duties, the same mercies; for what is so to one, is ordinarily some way so to all, therefore ought they to join in confessing of sins, acknowledging mercies, deprecating dangers and strokes, and discharging of duties.
4. The mutual interest that usually is in the condition of members of the same Family, calleth for joynt-seeking of God, and worshipping of him, as they are jointly concerned in the same dangers, the same sins often, the same stroaks, the same duties, the same mercies; for what is so to one, is ordinarily some way so to all, therefore ought they to joyn in confessing of sins, acknowledging mercies, deprecating dangers and stroaks, and discharging of duties.