A39662:1845
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. It especially forbids Perjury or false Swearing, whereby not only the Names, but Estates and Lives of the innocent are injured and ruined, Psal. 35.11. False witnesses did rise up: they laid to my charge things that I knew not. Prov. 19.5. A false witness shall not be unpunished: and he that speaketh lies shall not escape. A sin which God will punish, Mal. 3.5. And I will come near to you to judgment, and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, &c.
Q. 9. What else is forbidden in this Commandment?
A. It forbids all whisperings and back-bitings of others secretly, 2 Cor. 12.20. —Lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, back-bitings, whisperings, &c. And all Tale-carrying from one to another to our Neighbours injury, Levit. 19.16. Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people, &c. And 1 Tim. 5.13. —And not only idle, but ta•lers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
A. It forbids all whisperings and back-bitings of others secretly,