A37046:891
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. 3. If by Christ in the new World all the Levitical services be changed, and the Ceremonial Worship of that day; then it is meet that the day also should be changed: 1. For showing the expiration of that Worship and Law, it being hard to keep that day, and to distinguish it from the Jewish former Worship: 2. To keep Christians more Judaizing, and to abstract them even from former services of the Sabbath now abolished; just as now no particular family hath the Priesthood, as Levi had it before, nor no particular Nation hath the Church confined in it, as that of the Jews had (though these were not typical properly) yea, it would be such a day as would point out the evanishing of former Ceremonies, which the inbringing of the first day abundantly doth.
Arg. 3. If by Christ in the new World all the Levitical services be changed, and the Ceremonial Worship of that day; then it is meet that the day also should be changed: 1. For shewing the expiration of that Worship and Law, it being hard to keep that day, and to distinguish it from the Jewish former Worship: 2. To keep Christians more Judaizing, and to abstract them even from former services of the Sabbath now abolished; just as now no particular family hath the Priesthood, as Levi had it before, nor no particular Nation hath the Church confined in it, as that of the Jews had (though these were not typical properly) yea, it would be such a day as would point out the evanishing of former Ceremonies, which the inbringing of the first day abundantly doth.
Arg. 4. If the Worship and Ordinances of the new Gospel-world be eminently to hold their Institution of Christ the Mediator, and to be made some way relative to his Redemption past; then it is meet for that end that the Sabbath-day be changed, so as it may be dependant on him as all other worship is, that is moral-positive or positive moral, and that cannot be done well, if the former day be kept unchanged, at least not so well, as when it is changed; but the former is true, all Gospel-worship holdeth of him Sacraments, Prayer, Praise, Ministry, &c. (now Sacraments, as they seal are not ceremonial, for the Tree of Life was instituted to be a seal of the Covenant of works in the state of Innocency before the fall, while there were no typical Institutions of a Saviour to come, and so Sacraments as they are Seals may be continued, as perpetual pieces of worship, without hazard of typifying a Saviour to come) therefore he instituted new ones, and that with relation to his work of Redemption, considered as past: Hence also his Prayer or Pattern is called the Lords Prayer, and his Sacrament of the Supper is called the Lords Supper, because instituted by him and relating to him; in this sense it is peculiarly said