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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. 6. Why are the Ordinances called means of Salvation?
A. Because by and through them, the Spirit of the Lord conveys Spiritual Graces into Mens Souls, 1 Cor. 1.21. —It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 1 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. 7. Whence is the virtue of Ordinances?
Q. 7. Whence is the vertue of Ordinances?
A. 'Tis not in and from themselves, or the gifts and abilities of him that administers them, but from the Blessing and Spirit of the Lord, 1 Cor. 3.7. —Neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth, but God that giveth the increase.