A39662:1750
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.
A. That we have great cause to bless God for his protecting Law, and for Humane Laws grounded upon his Law for the protection of our Lives; Rom. 13.4. —For he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath, upon him that doth evil.
Q. 11. What's the second Inference hence?
A. That all that are guilty of this Sin, have great cause to be humbled and afflicted: For it's a crying Sin, Gen. 4.10. —The voice of thy brothers blood crieth unto me from the ground. Yet not to despair of Mercy upon true Repentance. Manasseh shed innocent blood, and yet was pardoned upon Repentance, 2 Kin. 21.16. Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had f•••ed Jerusalem from one end to another, &c.
A. That all that are guilty of this Sin, have great cause to be humbled and afflicted: For it's a crying Sin, Gen. 4.10. —The voice of thy brothers blood cryeth unto me from the ground. Yet not to despair of Mercy upon true Repentance. Manasseth shed innocent blood, and yet was pardoned upon Repentance, 2 Kin. 21.16. Moreover Manasseth shed innocent blood very much, till he had f•••ed Ierusalem from one end to another, &c.