A39662:1885
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's the mischief of Covetousness?
A. It distracts the Heart in Duties, Ezek. 33.31. And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee, as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. Provokes the wrath of God, Isa. 57.17. For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him, &c. And where it reigns, it becomes Idolatry, Col. 3.5. —And covetousness which is Idolatry.
Q. 12. What's the first Inference hence?
A. It calls all men to humiliation for the inordinacy of their Affections towards the World, their discontent with their own, and envyings of others conditions.