A37046:930
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.
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.
4. That it is, and must be such a day as was commonly set apart by Christians to God as his; and that with respect to Christ the Mediator, and such a day as was known to them; And by the former practises it is clear, that this day is the first day of the week, being the Lord Christs day, who now having conquered death; and gotten the victory, He doth therefore claim this day as a tribute to him.
This being clear, that no other day can claim this title, and that the First day hath good ground to claim it, we may put it out of question, that it is the First day or no day, or if it were not the First, that to no purpose were the designation of that day inserted, seeing to no other day hath it been applied, nor can it be applied.