A39662:1934
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 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.
Q. 5. What other sin is heinous in Gods account?
A. The sin of Idolatry is a most heinous sin, and goes nearer to the heart of God than other sins do, Ezek. 6.9. And they that escape of you, shall remember me among the nations whither they ⟨p. 156⟩shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols, and they shall loath themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.