A26693:1883
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. What is envy?
A. Grieving at the good of our neighbour.
Q. May we grieve and grudge at their honour, riches, preferment, esteem, and applause?
Q. May we grieve and grudg at their honour, riches, preferment, esteem, and applause?
A. No.
Q. Or at their eminency above us in gifts, or graces, or precedency before us, secretly wishing that they stood out of our light?