A39662:1729
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 natural order of these Commandments in the second Table?
A. In these Commands God begins with the nearest concern of Man, which is Life, Job 2.4. —Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath, will he give for his life. Next to that his Command guards his nearest Relative, from whom the best outward comfort is to rise, his Wife ▪ Mark 10.8. And they twain shall be one flesh, &c. After that his good Name, which is very precious to him ▪ Eccles. 7.1. A good name is better than precious ointment. And then his Goods, which support his life, Isa. 3.1. For behold, the Lord, the Lord of hastes, doth take away from Jerusalem, and from Judah, the ••ay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water.
A. In these Commands God begins with the nearest concern of Man, which is Life, Iob 2.4. —Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath, will he give for his life. Next to that his Command guards his nearest Relative, from whom the best outward comfort is to rise, his Wife ▪