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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. No, they do not; Baptism may pass on a cast-away, Acts 8.23. For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. And the Lords Supper may be received unworthily, 1 Cor. 11.27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
Q. 9. What's the reason they prove not effectual to all?
A. Because their virtue and efficacy is not in themselves, but in God; for we see they work as Gods Spirit concurs, or not concurs with them, as in the instance before given.
A. Because their vertue and efficacy is not in themselves, but in God; for we see they work as Gods Spirit concurs, or not concurs with them, as in the instance before given.
Q. 10. But is not that for want of wisdom, holiness or zeal in the Minister, that they have no more efficacy?