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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.
Q. Doth it forbid the taking away the life of our neighbour in any case whatsoever?
A. No.
Q. How then doth it forbid us to take away our Neighbours life?
A. Unjustly.
Q. May there be a just cause of taking away our Neighbours life, as in executing a Malefactor at the command of a Magistrate, or in a lawful war, or upon the necessary defence of our selves?
Q. May there be a just cause of taking away our Neighbours life, as in executing a Malefoctor at the command of a Magistrate, or in a lawful war, or upon the necessary defence of our selves?