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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.
Q 7. What was the principal Work in which God hath manifested his Goodness to men?
A. The principal manifestation of God's Goodness, was in the Work of Redemption by Christ. Rom. 5.8. God commended his love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 1 John 4.8, 9. In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we might live through him.
Q. 8. But are not the Judgments of God on the wicked, and his Afflictions on the Saints, impeachments of his goodness?
Q. 8. But are not the Iudgments of God on the wicked, and his Afflictions on the Saints, impeachments of his goodness?
A. No, It is the property of Goodness to hate and punish Evil in the impenitent. Exod 34.7. Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty, &c. And the Afflictions of the Saints flow from his Goodness, and end in their true and eternal good. Heb 12.6. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.