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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. Yes, it doth, as a Rule to order their Conversations by. Jam. 2.8, 9, 10. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self; ye do well, but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors; for whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, is guilty of all?
A. Yes, it doth, as a Rule to order their Conversations by. Iam. 2.8, 9, 10. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy self; ye do well, but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors; for whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, is guilty of all?
Q. 6. Is the Moral Law the same thing with the Covenant of Works, and imposed for the same end?
A. God never designed the Law to be the way of Man's Justification since the Fall. Gal. 3.21, 22. Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid! for if there had been a law-giver which could have given life, verily, righteousness should have been by the law; but the Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ night be given to them that believe. But it was promulged to convince Men of Sin. Rom. 7 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! Nay, I had not known sin, but by the ⟨p. 104⟩