A39662:1905
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 is because the Law of God is perfect, and the best of Men in this life are imperfect, Psal. 19.7. The law of the Lord is perfect, &c. Eccles. 7.20. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
Q. 6. But may not Men perfectly keep it, when regenerate, and born of God?
A. No, because even in the regenerate there is a Law of Sin which wars against the Law of God, Gal. 5.17. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, &c. Rom. 7.22, 23. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man. But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, &c. And though they are said not to sin, 1 John 3.9. (Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit sin, &c.) that is not to be taken absolutely; but comparatively, as they once did, and others still do.
A. No, because even in the regenerate there is a Law of Sin which wars against the Law of God, Gal. 5.17. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, &c. Rom. 7.22, 23. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man. But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind, &c. And though they are said not to sin,