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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.
Q. 3. But if those additions be for the more decent worshipping of God, is it not allowed by 1 Cor. 14.40. Let all things be done decently and in order?
A. No; That Scripture commands that Gods Institutions be regularly and decently performed, but not that we invent Ceremonies that are symbolical, to make them more decent than Christ left them.
Q. 4. Why is the second Commandment left out in all the public Offices of the Popish Church?
Q. 4. Why is the second Commandment left out in all the publick Offices of the Popish Church?
A. Because it expressly condemns their Idolatrous Images, kneeling at the Sacrament, Prayers to Saints, and all their Superstitious Crosses, Surplices, Chrism, as sinful.
A. Because it expresly condemns their Idolatrous Images, kneeling at the Sacrament, Prayers to Saints, and all their Superstitious Crosses, Surplices, Chrisme, as sinful.