A37046:955
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.
2. Thus, if the very day of Christs rest in the new World be to be rested on, and sanctified as the Sabbath, then the First day is to be rested on and sanctified; but by Analogy from the works of Creation, we may see that the First day of rest after the finishing of the work of Redemption is to be sanctified, Ergo, &c. and Psalm 118. is very considerable to this purpose, wherein there is 1. a Prophecy of Christ▪ 2. O• a day which God hath singularly made for us to joy in▪ 3. That day is the day wherein the rejected stone is made the head of the Corner, which day is clear from Rom. 2. 4 to be the Resurrection day, yea, suppose that day there doth signify the time of the Gospel, wherein we should joy, yet even that way, the first day is by proportion that day eminently, wherein Christs Victory was manifested, and so the day wherein Christians ought especially to rejoice.
2. Thus, if the very day of Christs rest in the new World be to be rested on, and sanctified as the Sabbath, then the First day is to be rested on and sanctified; but by Analogy from the works of Creation, we may see that the First day of rest after the finishing of the work of Redemption is to be sanctified, Ergo, &c. and Psalm 118. is very considerable to this purpose, wherein there is 1. a Prophecy of Christ▪ 2. O• a day which God hath singularly made for us to joy in▪ 3. That day is the day wherein the rejected stone is made the head of the Corner, which day is clear from Rom. 2. 4 to be the Resurrection day, yea, suppose that day there doth signifie the time of the Gospel, wherein we should joy, yet even that way, the first day is by proportion that day eminently, wherein Christs Victory was manifested, and so the day wherein Christians ought especially to rejoyce.