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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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2. Distinguish betwixt these Ten Commandments simply and strictly taken in the matter of them, and more complexly in their full Administration, with Preface, Promises, Sacrifices, &c, in the first sense they are a Law having the matter, but not the form of the Covenant of Works: so Moses by it is said to describe such righteousness as the Covenant of Works doth require, yet he doth not propound it as the righteousness they were to rely on, but his scope is to put them to a Mediators, by revealing sin through the Law, Rom. 10. 3. In the second sense it is a Covenant of Grace, that same in substance with the Covenant made with Abraham, and with the Covenant made with Believers now, but differing in its Administration.
2. Distinguish betwixt these Ten Commandments simply and strictly taken in the matter of them, and more complexly in their full Administration, with Preface, Promises, Sacrifices, &c, in the first sense they are a Law having the matter, but not the form of the Covenant of Works: so Moses by it is said to describe such righteousness as the Covenant of Works doth require, yet he doth not propond it as the righteousness they were to relye on, but his scope is to put them to a Mediators, by revealing sin through the Law, Rom. 10. 3. In the second sense it is a Covenant of Grace, that same in substance with the Covenant made with Abraham, and with the Covenant made with Believers now, but differing in its Administration.
3. Distinguish betwixt Gods intention in giving, and the Believers in Israel their making use of this Law, and the carnal multitude among that people their way of receiving it, and corrupt abusing it contrary to the Lords mind: In the first sense it was a Covenant of Grace, in the second, it turned to be a Covenant of Works to them; and therefore it is that the Lord rejects as we may see Isaiah 1. 13. 66. 2.