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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.
A. Yes.
Q. What are they equal in?
A. In power, and glory.
Q. 8. What are the decrees of God?
A. The decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his ⟨p. 10⟩Will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath fore-ordained whatsoever comes to pass.