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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.
Q 3. If God be thus Infinite, and no understanding can comprehend him, How then is it said in 1 John 3.2. We shall see him as he is?
Q 3. If God be thus Infinite, and no understanding can comprehend him, How then is it said in 1 John 3.2. VVe shall see him as he is?
A. The meaning is not, that glorified Saints shall comprehend God in their understandings; but that they shall have a true apprehensive Knowledge, though not a comprehensive Knowledge of God: and that we shall see him immediately, and not as we do now through a glass darkly.
A. The meaning is not, that glorified Saints shall comprehend God in their understandings; but that they shall have a true apprehensive Knowledge, though not a comprehensive Knowledge of God: and that we shall see him immediately, and not as we do now thorow a glass darkly.
Q. 4. What is the first Lesson to be learnt from God's Infinity?