A39662:1797
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 required in this Commandment?
A. It requires of every Man diligence in a lawful Calling, to get and preserve an Estate for his own and others good, Prov. 13.11. —He that gathereth by labour, shall increase. Eph. 4.28. —But rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Q. 3. What else is required in this Commandment?
A. It requires us not only to get and keep the things of the World in a lawful manner, but to distribute and communicate them to those that are in want, and not cast them into temptations of sin or inevitable ruin, Isa. 58.10. And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day.