A26693:1868
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. Full contentment.
Q. What frame of spirit doth it require us to have with reference to our neighbour?
A. A right and charitable frame of spirit.
Q. Towards himself only?
A. Towards him, and all that is his.
Q. What is that right and charitable frame of spirit towards our neighbours? Is it to think no evil of them (without manifest cause) and to wish no evil to them, and to rejoice in their joy, and mourn in their affliction?