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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.
If therefore the earnest Calls of your suffering Ministers, the dreadful Charge of immortal souls, the strict Commands of your Maker and Judg, have engaged you in a resolution to set up this much neglected, but necessary and most beneficial exercise, let me advise you to take this plain method. First, let those under your charge learn the Answers in the Assemblies Catechism, Then ask them these little Questions drawn from thence, and if they are at a loss, show them out of which part of the greater Answer, they should have made return to the lesser Question. And this would be the more effectual, if you did run over all a second time, that they might observe the force of every clause and word in the Answer out of the Assembly, before you pass to examine them further on. Do not put them upon learning the Scriptures, till they ean get through all the Catechism, and then examine them, how they can prove such ⟨image 3⟩or such a clause in the answer, leaving the order that the Scriptures lie in. And as ever you desire to see the happy issue, of this most useful exercise.
If therefore the earnest Calls of your suffering Ministers, the dreadful Charge of immortal souls, the strict Commands of your Maker and Judg, have engaged you in a resolution to set up this much neglected, but necessary and most beneficial exercise, let me advise you to take this plain method. First, let those under your charge learn the Answers in the Assemblies Catechism, Then ask them these little Questions drawn from thence, and if they are at a loss, shew them out of which part of the greater Answer, they should have made return to the lesser Question. And this would be the more effectual, if you did run over all a second time, that they might observe the force of every clause and word in the Answer out of the Assembly, before you pass to examine them further on. Do not put them upon learning the Scriptures, till they ean get through all the Chatechism, and then examine them, how they can prove such ⟨image 3⟩or such a clause in the answer, leaving the order that the Scriptures ly in. And as ever you desire to see the happy issue, of this most useful exercise.