A39662:1853
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. 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.
A. That the best Christians have cause to be humbled for the sins of the Tongue, whereby God is dishonoured, and others are injured, Iam. 3.2. —If any man offend not in word, the same is a per•ect 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.
Q. 13. What's the second Inference from hence?
A. 'Tis our great concernment to walk with that Piety and Justice towards God and Men, as to cut off all just occasions of reproach from our own Names, 2 Cor. 11.12. But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion, &c.