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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. 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.
Q. Why was the forbidden tree, called the tree of Knowledge, of good, and evil.
A. Because thereby man came to know good, and evil; good by the loss of it, and evil by the feeling of it.
Q. Under what penalty did God forbid him to eat?
A. Upon pain of death.