A39662:1655
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. 1. What is the Rest which God requires on the Sabbath?
Q. 1. VVhat is the Rest which God requires on the Sabbath?
A. It is not a mere natural or civil, but an holy rest, resembling the rest in Heaven. wherein the Mind is most active and busy in the work of God, though the Body be at rest, and the Spirit not wearied with its work; Rev. 4.8. And the four bea••s had each of them six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within, and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
A. It is not a meer natural or civil, but an holy rest, resembling the rest in Heaven. wherein the Mind is most active and busie in the work of God, though the Body be at rest, and the Spirit not wearied with its work; Rev. 4.8. And the four bea••s had each of them six wings about him, and they were full of eyes within, and they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.