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A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are…
A most familiar explanation of the Assemblies shorter catechism wherein their larger answers are broken into lesser parcels, thereby to let in the light by degrees into the minds of the learners : to which is added in the close, a most brief help for the necessary but much neglected duty of self-examination to be daily perused : and to this is subjoined a letter of Christian counsel to a destitute flock / by Jos. Allaine.
London: printed for Edw. Brewster, 1674
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. Set to every one his task, according to their several capacities, and be punctual in requiring it, and show your selves as zealous for the doing of Gods work, as you are for your own. But let not the explicatory Questions and Answers be learnt without book by any, because this would be a needless burden, and they are in effect learnt already by them that can give an account of the Catechism it self.
2. Set to every one his task, according to their several capacities, and be punctual in requiring it, and shew your selves as zealous for the doing of Gods work, as you are for your own. But let not the explicatory Questions and Answers be learnt without book by any, because this would be a needless burden, and they are in effect learnt already by them that can give an account of the Catechism it self.
This I cannot omit, that it is my fervent desire, that not only the younger, but also the elder sort would become students of the Catechism, and (if able) commit it to memory. Beloved, would you know wherein you might rejoice the soul of your Minister, would you do me a pleasure ⟨image 4⟩and refresh me in my tribulations for your sakes? why, herein you may do it. This would be no little pleasure to me, and (I am sure) no little profit to you. O the miserable defect of knowledge, even among Professors themselves, for want of humility and diligence to commit to memory the principles of religion?
This I cannot omit, that it is my fervent desire, that not only the younger, but also the elder sort would become students of the Catechism, and (if able) commit it to memory. Beloved, would you know wherein you might rejoice the soul of your Minister, would you do me a pleasure ⟨image 4⟩and refresh me in my tribulations for your sakes? why, herein you may do it. This would be no little pleasure to me, and (I am sure) no little profit to you. O the miserable defect of knowledg, even among Professors themselves, for want of humility and diligence to commit to memory the principles of religion?