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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. That the supreme love, fear, and trust of the Soul is God's peculiar right and due. Whosoever places them on any other besides God, is guilty of a very heinous and great sin against him. 1 John 2.15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world; if any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him. Compared with Job 31.24, 28. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; this also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge, for I should have denied the God that is above.
A. That the supream love, fear, and trust of the Soul is God's peculiar right and due. Whosoever places them on any other besides God, is guilty of a very heinous and great sin against him. 1 Iohn 2.15. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world; if any man love the world, the love of the father is not in him. Compared with Iob 31.24, 28. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; this also were an iniquity to be punished by the Iudge, for I should have denied the God that is above.
Q. 12. What is the fifth inference hence?
A. That God's eye discovers the closest Idolatry in the world, whether it be in secret actions; Ezek. 8.12. Hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark? Every man in the chambers of his imaginary; for they say, the Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth. Or inward affections.