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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. Out of the true sight of sin, and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ.
Q. Can there be no true repentance without a true sight and discovery of sin?
A. No.
Q. Will it be despair and not repentance, except with the sight of sin there be an apprehension (at least of a possibility) of mercy?
A. Yes.
Q. In and through whom doth the Penitent sinner apprehend some hope of mercy?