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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. 89. How do the Sacraments become effectual means of salvation?
A. The Sacraments become effectual means of salvation, not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them, but only by the blessing of Christ, and the working o his Spirit in them that by saith receive them.
Q. How do they not become effectual?
A. Not from any virtue in them, or in him that doth administer them.
Q. Doth the efficacy of the Sacraments depend upon the goodness or badness of him that doth administer them?