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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 learn the abominable Nature of Popery. The Pope being that lawless One, who will not be bound to the Laws of God himself. 2 Thes. 2.8. Then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. But assumes Power to dispense with God's Laws to others.
A. Hence we learn the abominable Nature of Popery. The Pope being that lawless One, who will not be bound to the Laws of God himself. 2 Thes. 2.8. Then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. But assumes Power to dispence with God's Laws to others.
Q. 8. What is the second Inference hence?
A. That man dieth not as Beasts die; which are under no Moral Law, and therefore capable of no sin, but must come to Judgment after Death. Eccles. 3.21. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? Heb. 9.27. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the Judgment.
A. That man dieth not as Beasts die; which are under no Moral Law, and therefore capable of no sin, but must come to Judgment after Death.