A39662:1737
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. 4. Doth this Command only respect the lives of others?
A. No, it primarily respects our own lives, and forbids us all things that tend to the shortening and ruin of them, Eph. 5.29. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church.
Q. 5. How many ways may men sin against this Command, with respect to their own lives?
A. A Man sinneth against his own Life, not only by destroying himself, as the Jailer would have done. Acts 16.27. And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled; But by refusing Food or Physic to preserve Life, or macerating our Bodies with excessive Sorrows.