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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.
6. The sixth distinction is of the Moral Law in two Tables, first and second; The first contains our immediate worship, and service and obedience to God himself, and is comprehended in the first four Commandments; the second contains our mediate obedience to God in all the duties we owe to other, in the last six▪ they were at first so divided by the Lord himself, for there are Ten in all, Dent. 4. 13▪ From this distinction take notice: 1. That all the Commandments of the second Table are of like Authority with the first, God spake all these words; yea, as it appears from Acts 7. 38. it was our Lord Jesus. 2. The sins immediately against the first Table, are greater then those against the second; for this cause, Matth. 22. 38. the first is called the First and Great Commandment: Therefore 3. In Morals (if they be things of the same nature) the duties of the second Table cede and give place to the duties of the first Table, when they cannot stand together; as in the case of love to God, and the exercise of love to our Father and Neighbour, Luke 14. 26. Matth. •0. 37. when obedience to God and obedience to our superiors cannot consist▪ we are to obey God rather then man, Acts 4. 19. and we are to lore the Lord, and hate Father and Mother▪ Luke 14. 6. 4. Yet take notice, that Ceremonials or positives of the first Table, for a time cede and give place to Morals in the second; as for relieving or preserving our Neighbours life in hazard, we may travel on the Sabbath day, according to that Scripture, I will have Mercy and not Sacrifice, and the Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath, &c.
6. The sixth distinction is of the Moral Law in two Tables, first and second; The first contains our immediate worship, and service and obedience to God himself, and is comprehended in the first four Commandments; the second contains our mediate obedience to God in all the duties we owe to other, in the last six they were at first so divided by the Lord himself, for there are Ten in all, Dent. 4. 13 From this distinction take notice: 1. That all the Commandments of the second Table are of like Authority with the first, God spake all these words; yea, as it appears from