A39662:2009
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. 11. What's the second Inference from hence?
A. Hence it follows that it is dangerous on the one side not to strive in all the ways of Duty for Christ and Salvation, contrary to Luke 13.24. Strive to enter in at the strait gate, for many I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. And as dangerous on the other side to rest in, and depend on our own Works and Duties. Phil. 3.9. And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law; but that which is through the faith of Christ: the righteousness which is of God by faith.
A. Hence it follows that it is dangerous on the one side not to strive in all the wayes of Duty for Christ and Salvation, contrary to Luke 13.24. Strive to enter in at the strait gate, for many I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. And as dangerous on the other side to rest in, and depend on our own Works and Duties. Phil. 3.9. And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the law; but that which is through the faith of Christ: the righteousness which is of God by faith.
Q. 12. What's the third Inference hence?