A39662:1932
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. The sin of Oppression is noted in Scripture for a crying sin, Hab. 2.11. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the o•am out of the timber shall answer it. Especially the oppression of the Widow and Fatherless, Exod. 22.22, 23. Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry.
Q. 4. What is reckoned in Scripture an heinous sin against the First Table.
A. The sin of Atheism, or denying the Being of God, is a sin of the first magnitude, Job 31.28. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge: for I should have denied the God that is above. This was the sin of Pharaoh, Exod. 5.2. And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice, to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.
A. The sin of Atheism, or denying the Being of God, is a sin of the first magnitude, Iob 31.28. This also were an iniquity to be punished by the Iudge: for I should have denyed the God that is above. This was the sin of Pharaoh, Exod. 5.2. And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice, to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.