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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 those that suffer for endeavouring to preserve the purity of Gods Ordinances, and non-conformity to the contrary injunctions of men, have a good warrant to bear them out in all such Sufferings; Deut. 4.2. Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the Commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you, &c.
Q. 11. What's the third Instruction from the second Commandment?
A. That it is highly sinful and dangerous to innovate and prescribe by Humane Authority, such symbolical Rites in the Worship of God, as he never appointed or allowed in his Word, Matth. 15.9. But in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Q. 12. What's the fourth Instruction hence?