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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 we see the miserable state of them that grow worse and worse. Jude, Verse 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds. Trees whose fruit withereth; without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the root.
A. Hence we see the miserable state of them that grow worse and worse. Iude, Verse 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feas• with you, feeding themselves without fear. Clouds they are without water, carried about of winds. Trees whose fruit withereth; without fruit, twice dead, pluckt up by the root.
Q. 11. What is the third Inference?
A. Christians should not be discouraged at their weakness in Grace, for they have a merciful Christ. Isa. 42.3. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. And a sure Promise. Job 17.9. The righteous also shall hold on his way; and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
A. Christians should not be discouraged at their weakness in Grace, for they have a merciful Christ. Isa. 42.3. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoaking flax shall he not quench, he shall bring forth judgment unto truth. And a sure Promise. Iob 17.9