A39662:1888
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 calls all men to humiliation for the inordinacy of their Affections towards the World, their discontent with their own, and envyings of others conditions.
Q. 13. What's the second Inference hence?
A. As ever we would keep clear from this sin, let us make God our portion, Psal. 16.5, 6. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. And labour to ⟨p. 152⟩get the Soul-satisfying comforts of his Spirit, John 4.14. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst, &c. 2 Cor. 6.10. —As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
A. As ever we would keep clear from this sin, let us make God our portion, Psal. 16.5, 6. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. And labour to ⟨p. 152⟩get the Soul-satisfying comforts of his Spirit, Iohn 4.14. But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst, &c. 2 Cor. 6.10