A37046:863
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.
In sum, suppose now the first day being instituted, that the Command were to sanctify the Sabbath▪ we would understand it of the first day, because its already instituted; and the same reasons will enforce it, even so the seventh day came in then, because it was formerly instituted; beside the Sabbatism signifieth not this or that day, but what day soever, shall be by God solemnly set, or is set apart for holy rest; and the Command will run for our observing the Lords day, supposing its institution as well as it did for that; although it more directly tie them, yet it doth so but as a reason, even as the preface prefixed to all the Commands, and the ⟨p. 152⟩promise affixed to the fifth, concern them literally; yet are binding in so far as they are moral, as appeareth by the Apostles applying the last, Ephes. 6. 2. without relation to that particular Land or People, but as applicable and common to any Land or People making conscience of obedience to Gods commands.
In sum, suppose now the first day being instituted, that the Command were to sanctifie the Sabbath▪ we would understand it of the first day, because its already instituted; and the same reasons will inforce it, even so the seventh day came in then, because it was formerly instituted; beside the Sabbatisme signifieth not this or that day, but what day soever, shall be by God solemnly set, or is set apart for holy rest; and the Command will run for our observing the Lords day, supposing its institution as well as it did for that; although it more directly tye them, yet it doth so but as a reason, even as the preface prefixed to all the Commands, and the ⟨p. 152⟩promise affixed to the fifth, concern them literally; yet are binding in so far as they are moral, as appeareth by the Apostles applying the last, Ephes. 6. 2. without relation to that particular Land or People, but as applicable and common to any Land or People making conscience of obedience to Gods commands.