A39662:1870
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: Some Christians have attained to a very great measure and eminent degree of Contentment in the midst of changeable and afflictive Providences, Phil. 4.11. —I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. Psal. 16.5, 6. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places: yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Q. 4. Is there no danger of the sin of discontent in a full and prosperous condition?
A. Fullness of the World secures no Man from the sin of Discontentment with his own, or coveting that which is another's; because the desires enlarge as the Estate doth, Psal. 62.10. —If riches increase, set ••t your hearts upon them. An instance whereof we have in Ahab, 1 Kings 21.4. And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased, because of the word, which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers, and he laid him d•wn upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
A. Fulness of the World secures no Man from the sin of Discontentment with his own, or coveting that which is anothers; because the desires enlarge as the E•tate doth,