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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. 12. What's the first benefit of a strong Faith?
A. A strong Faith gives much Glory to God, Rom. 4.19, 20. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarahs womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief: but was strong in faith, giving glory to God.
Q. 13. What's the second benefit of a strong Faith?
A. It gives the Soul the ravishing foresight and foretasts of Heaven upon Earth, 1 Pet. 1.8. Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
A. It gives the Soul the ravishing foresight and foretasts of Heaven upon Earth,