A39662:1833
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. This Command requires every Man to take care of preserving his own good Name, by ordering his Conversation in universal Integrity, 1 Pet. 3.15, 16. But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience▪ that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
A. This Command requires every Man to take care of preserving his own good Name, by ordering his Conversation in universal Integrity, 1 Pet. 3.15, 16. But sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready alwayes to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience▪ that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers, they may be ashamed that falsly accuse your good conversation in Christ.
Q. 3. What's the second thing required in this Commandment?
A. It requires all due care to preserve the good Name and Honour of other Men, as well as our own; for Christians are not to be of narrow and private Spirits, which centre only in ⟨p. 147⟩their own interests and concernments, Phil. 2.4. Look not every man on his own things; but every man also on the things of others.