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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. A mean of Salvation signifies any appointment of God, whereby he promotes and accomplishes his design of saving our Souls, so the word is a mean, Rom. 1.16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation, to every one that believeth.
Q. 5. How doth the Word and Sacraments differ as means of Salvation?
A. The Word is appointed to be the first means of begetting Faith; 1 Cor. 3.5. Who then is Paul? or who is Apollo? but ministers by whom ye believed, &c. Sacraments are to seal and confirm it, Rom. 4.11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith, &c.
A. The Word is appointed to be the first means of begeting Faith; 1 Cor. 3.5. Who then is Paul? or who is Apollo? but ministers by whom ye believed, &c. Sacraments are to seal and confirm it, Rom. 4.11. And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of faith, &c.