A39662:1991
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. 2. Are these things in Mans power to perform that God requires of him?
A. Though they are our Duties, yet we have no power in our selves by Nature to perform them, but the power is of ⟨p. 160⟩God, 2 Cor. 3.5. Not that we are sufficient of our selves to think any thing as of our selves, but our sufficiency is of God.
Q. 3. But if Men be in Christ, and justified from Eternity, what need of this?
A. Though God from Eternity decreed, and Christ long since purchased the Salvation of the Elect; yet have they no union with Christ, till they believe, Ephes. 3.17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye being rooted and grounded in love. Nor remission of Sin,