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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, it is not principally, or only from thence; for it's not in the power of the holiest Minister in the World to make them effectual, 1 Cor. 3.7. —Neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.
Q. 11. Whence is it that Sacraments become effectual?
A. 'Tis only from the Spirit of Christ working in them, and by them, on the souls of men, 1 Cor. 12.13. For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body, —and have been all made to drink into one spirit.
Q. 12. What's the first Instruction hence?