A39662:1993
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. 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, Acts 3.19. —That your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; but lye under wrath as others do, Eph. 2.3, 12. —And were by nature the children of wrath even as others. Ver. 12. That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Q. 4: If it be God that can only work these Graces in us, to what purpose is our striving?