A39662:1677
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. 11. Is it not enough to sanctify this day in our own persons?
Q. 11. Is it not enough to sanctifie this day in our own persons?
A. No; if God hath put any under our Authority, their profaning the Sabbath will become our sin, though we be never so strict in the observation of it our selves.
Q. 12. May we continue our civil Employments to the last moment of our common time?
A. Except Necessity or Mercy urge us, we ought to break off before, and allow some time to prepare for the Sabbath; Luke 23.54. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.