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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. Why do you call it a Covenant of life?
A. Because in this Covenant God promised eternal life.
Q. How many Covenants hath God made with man?
A. Two, the Covenant of works, and the Covenant of grace.
Q. Which of these was the Covenant, which God entered into first with man, when he was created?
A. The Covenant of works.