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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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. Hence learn, that it is both sinful and dangerous to frame an Image or Picture of God. Who can make an Image of his Soul? which yet is not so perfect a Spirit as God is? And as it is sinful to attempt it, so it is impossible to do it; Deut. 4.15, 16. Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves; for ye saw no manner of Similitude, on the day that the Lord spoke to you in Horeb out of the ••ast of the Fire; lest ye corrupt your selves, and make you a graven Image, the similitude of any figure, &c.
Q. 6. What else may be inferred from thence?
Q. 6. What else may be inferr'd from thence?
A. That our Souls are the most noble and excellent part of us which most resembles God; and therefore our chief regard and care should be for them, whatever becomes of the vile Body, Mat. 16.26. For what is a man profited if he gain the ⟨p. 8⟩whole world, and lose his own Soul? Or what shall a man give in Exchange for his Soul?