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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
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. 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. 3. Jer. 7. 22. their Sacrifices and Services as not commanded, because rested on by them to the prejudice of Grace, and contrary to the strain and scope of this Law complexly considered.
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 contray 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 Jsaiah 1. 13. 66. 2. 3. Jer. 7. 22. their Sacrifices and Services as not commanded, because rested on by them to the prejudice of Grace, and contrary to the strain and scope of this Law complexly considered.
4. Distinguish betwixt the Moral, and Ceremonial, and Judicial Law; the first concerns manners, and the right ordering of a Godly Conversation; and because these things are of perpetual equity and rectitude, the obligation of this Law as to that is perpetual; and therefore in the expounding of it, these two terms, Moral, and of Perpetual Authority, are all one, and to be taken so▪ 2. The Judicial Law is for ⟨p. 5⟩