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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. The Idolatry forbidden in the first Commandment is a sin respecting the object of worship, when we set up any thing in the place of God, which by nature is not God. Gal. 4.8. Howbeit then when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. But that against the second Commandment is, when we pretend to worship the true God, but do it by such means, and in such a manner as he hath not required, or hath forbidden▪ Exod. 32.4, 5. And he received them at their hands, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made a molten calf, and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the house of Egypt.
Q. 8. What is the first inference from the first Commandment?
A. That it is a special mercy to be brought forth in a land where the true God is known and worshipped. Psal. 147.20. He hath not dealt so with any nation; and as for his judgments they have not known them; praise ye the Lord.