A39662:1696
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. 2. What is the Duty of Political Fathers or Magistrates, to their Political Children or Subjects?
A. It is to rule and govern the people over whom God hath set them with Wisdom; 2 Chron. 1.10. Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. Justice, 2 Chron. 19.5.6, 7. And •e sit judges in the land, throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city. And he said to the judges, Take heed what ye do; for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment. Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you, take heed and do it, &c. And Piety, 2 Sam. 23.3. —He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. Carefully providing for their Souls in every place of their dominion; 2 Chron. 17.9. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the Lord with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. And for their common outward peace and safety; 2 Chron. 17.12. And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly, and •e built in Judah castles and cities of store.
A. It is to rule and govern the people over whom God hath set them with Wisdom; 2 Chron. 1.10. Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people. Justice, 2 Chron. 19.5.6, 7. And •e sit judges in the land, throughout all the fenced cities of Iudah, city by city. And he said to the judges, Take heed what ye do; for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment. Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you, take heed and do it, &c. And Piety,