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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. It consists in serious consideration of the greatness and holiness of that God, whom we approach in hearing the Word, Acts 10.33. —Now therefore we are all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God. And awing the heart even to a degree of holy trembling thereby, Isa. 66.2. ⟨p. 174⟩—To him will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Q. 4. What's the principal consideration thus to awe the heart?
A. The Word is in its own nature an heart-searching Word, Heb. 4.12. For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And that eventually 'twill be the savour of Life or Death to us, 2 Cor. 2.16. To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life, &c.
A. The Word is in its own nature an heart-searching Word, Heb. 4.12. For the word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joynts and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And that eventually 'twill be the savour of Life or Death to us,