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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
Letter: To the most endeared People, the Inhabibitants of Taunton; Salvation.
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.
3. Often take an account of the souls under your care, concerning their spiritual* estates, make inquiry into their conditions, insist much upon the sinfulness and misery of their natural estate, and upon the necessity of regeneration and conversion, in order to their salvation. Admonish them gravely of their sins, encourage beginnings. Follow them earnestly, and let them have no quiet for you, till you see them in a saving change. This is a duty of high2 ⟨image 90⟩consequence, but (I am afraid) fearfully neglected, even by some that are godly. Doth not Conscience say, Thou art the man?
3. Often take an account of the souls under your care, concerning their spiritual* estates, make inquiry into their conditions, insist much upon the sinfulness and misery of their natural estate, and upon the necessity of regeneration and conversion, in order to their salvation. Admonish them gravely of their sins, incourage beginnings. Follow them earnostly, and let them have no quiet for you, till you see them in a saving change. This is a duty of high2 ⟨image 90⟩consequence, but (I am afraid) fearfully neglected, even by some that are godly. Doth not Conscience say, Thou art the man?
- *Herein you must be followers of Christ, Mat. 13. 10 36. 51.
- 2Mark 4. 10, 11.