A37046:852
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.
Arg. 4. If the moral grounds and reasons which press this Command do most directly respect a seventh day, and not the seventh; then its not the seventh day, but a seventh day, which is primarily commanded in it (for the reasons bear out especially what is moral in it, and principally intended) but the moral reasons pressing it plead more strongly and directly for a seventh day, and but indirectly for the seventh day as it was then instituted; Ergo, &c. That the reasons do directly press a seventh day, and in a manner stick closely to it, may thus be made out.
1. If the reasons equally press on us the first day, and the observation of it (supposing it now to be observed according to Divine warrant) then they do not primarily press the seventh, but the reasons equally press on us the first day, Ergo, &c. the major is clear, for the same thing cannot press two different days ⟨p. 150⟩primarily nor equally; that the reasons concern us as well as them upon the supposition aforesaid, may thus appear:
1. If the reasons equally press on us the first day, and the observation of it (supposing it now to be observed according to Divine warrant) then they do not primarily press the seventh, but the reasons equally press on us the first day, Ergo, &c. the major is clear, for the same thing cannot press two different dayes ⟨p. 150⟩primarily nor equally; that the reasons concern us as well as them upon the supposition aforesaid, may thus appear:
1. They are universal, and do not belong to that people more then any other, for the concession of six days is to all, and Gods example of resting, concerneth all.