A39662:1828
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 general scope and aim of the ninth Commandment?
A. The ninth Command aims chiefly at the preservation and promoting of Truth amongst Men, Zech. 8.16. —Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour, &c. This being of indispensable necessity to the subsistence and welfare of Humane Society, Eph. 4.25. Wherefore p•tting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour, for we are members one of another.
A. The ninth Command aimes chiefly at the preservation and promoting of Truth amongst Men, Zech. 8.16. —Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour, &c. This being of indispensable necessity to the subsistence and welfare of Humane Society, Eph. 4.25. Wherefore p•tting away lying, speak every man truth with his neig•b•ur, for we are members one of another.