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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. 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.
Q. 3. Is the reading of the Scripture an Ordinance of God for mens Salvation?
A. Yes, it is, Deut. 17.19. And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes to do them. And in reading of it, God sometimes comes in by his Spirit to mens conversion, Acts 8.27, 28, 29. And he arose and went, and behold a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning, and sitting in his chariot, read Isaiah the prophet. Then the spirit said to Philip, go near, and join thy self to his chariot, &c.