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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.
A. By the Word is meant the Word of God, consigned to writing in the Books of the Old and New Testament, which though it be ministered by men, yet it is no other than the very Word of God, and as such to be received, 1 Thess. 2.13. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because when ye received the word of God, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men: but (as it is in truth) the word of God, &c.
A. By the Word is meant the Word of God, consigned to writing in the Books of the Old and New Testament, which though it be ministred by men, yet it is no other than the very Word of God, and as such to be received, 1 Thess. 2.13. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because when ye received the word of God, which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men: but (as it is in truth) the word of God, &c.
Q. 2. Whence is the efficacy of this Word?
A. It is wholly from the Spirit of God that it becomes effectual to any mans Salvation, 1 Cor. 3 6, 7. I have planted, and Apollo watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.