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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. Works, or obedience.
Q. Why was the first Covenant called a Covenant of works?
A. Because works or obedience, was the alone condition of this Covenant.
Q. What special command did God give to man, for the trial of his obedience?
Q. What special command did God give to man, for the tryal of his obedience?
A. He forbade him to eat of the tree of Knowledge, of good, and evil.
A. He forbad him to eat of the tree of Knowledge, of good, and evil.