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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. 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, 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.
Q. 5. What else belongs to due preparation to hear?
A. The discharging of the heart from worldly cares, Matth. 13.7. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. And carnal lusts, Jam. 1.21. Wherefore lay apart, all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.