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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.
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Q. 12. What special Act of Providence did God exercise towards man in the estate wherein he was created?
A. When God created man, he entered into a Covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience: forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.
A. When God created man, he entred into a Covenant of life with him, upon condition of perfect obedience: forbidding him to eat of the tree of knowledg of good and evil, upon pain of death.
Q. When God created man, what did he do with him?
A. He entered into a Covenant with him.