A37046:943
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 this is not commended only to them, but commanded and enjoined even in reference to the day, and will the Apostle load Churches with Commands in that circumstance without ground, and universally (to speak so) prefer one day to another, and so as he will have uniformity in the very day in the Church of Corinth, with other Churches unnecessarily? Let it not be said, nay nor thought.
3. That this is not commended onely to them, but commanded and enjoyned even in reference to the day, and will the Apostle load Churches with Commands in that circumstance without ground, and universally (to speak so) prefer one day to another, and so as he will have uniformity in the very day in the Church of Corinth, with other Churches unnecessarily? Let it not be said, nay nor thought.
4. That this day was commanded even in the Churches of Galatia, in which Churches he had condemned the observation of days, whereby it would seem to be clear, that he counteth not the preferring of this first day, as one of these days the ⟨p. 165⟩observation whereof is prohibited and condemned by him, no• willeth it to be laid aside; and that purposely he passed the seventh day as amongst these days, which were not to be observed and retained but laid aside.
4. That this day was commanded even in the Churches of Galatia, in which Churches he had condemned the observation of dayes, whereby it would seem to be clear, that he counteth not the preferring of this first day, as one of these dayes the ⟨p. 165⟩observation whereof is prohibited and condemned by him, no• willeth it to be laid aside; and that purposely he passed the seventh day as amongst these dayes, which were not to be observed and retained but laid aside.