A37046:928
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.
1. That after Christs Ascension, there was a peculiar day belonging to the Lord beside and beyond other days.
2. That it was not the old Sabbath, for 1. Johns scope being particularly to clear the time of the Vision by the Circumstance of the day, the particular day as distinct from other days, to call the Sabbath then used amongst the Jews; the Lords day had more obscured it then cleared it, yea 2. In that its called the Lord, according to the phrase of the New Testament, it supposeth some relation to Christ the Mediator, as being derived from him which cannot be said of the seventh day Sabbath.
2. That it was not the old Sabbath, for 1. Johns scope being particularly to clear the time of the Vision by the Circumstance of the day, the particular day as distinct from other dayes, to call the Sabbath then used amongst the Jews; the Lords day had more obscured it then cleared it, yea 2. In that its called the Lord, according to the phrase of the New Testament, it supposeth some relation to Christ the Mediator, as being derived from him which cannot be said of the seventh day Sabbath.
3. That it was not any indefinite day of the Lord: For, 1. there is great odds betwixt the Lords day, and the day of the Lord, the former looketh to a constant special right and peculiar interest that God hath in that day beside other days, even as when the seventh day was called his Day before, the Temple, his Temple, the prescribed Service, his Service, and the Sacrament of the Supper, his Supper, &c. 2. That day would be still dark to the Church if it were indefinite, contrary to Johns scope.
3. That it was not any indefinite day of the Lord: For, 1. there is great odds betwixt the Lords day, and the day of the Lord, the former looketh to a constant special right and peculiar interest that God hath in that day beside other dayes, even as when the seventh day was called his Day before, the Temple, his Temple, the prescribed Service, his Service, and the Sacrament of the Supper, his Supper, &c. 2. That day would be still dark to the Church if it were indefinite, contrary to Johns scope.