A39662:1850
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. 11. What else is forbidden in this Commandment?
A. It forbids the eclipsing of the true worth and honour of others, by a proud exalting of our selves, 1 Cor. 13.4, 5. —Charity envieth not, charity vaunteth not it self, is not puffed up, &c. Or by crying up one to the disparagement of another good Man, 1 Cor. 3.4, 5. For while one saith, I am of Paul, and another I am of Apollo, are ye not carnal? &c.
Q. 12. What is the first Inference from hence?
A. That the best Christians have cause to be humbled for the sins of the Tongue, whereby God is dishonoured, and others are injured, Jam. 3.2. —If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. And ver. 5.6. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things: behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth. And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue amongst our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.