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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; some make their sensual Pleasure their chief End. Phil. 3.19. Whose God is their Belly; and some the World, Col. 3.5. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the Earth, and Covetousness, which is Idolatry.
A. No, they do not; some make their sensual Pleasure their chief End. Phil. 3.19. Whose God is their Belly; and some the World, Col. 3.5. Mortifie therefore your members which are upon the Earth, and Covetousness, which is Idolatry.
Q. 8. What are the Signs of a man's making himself his chief End?
A. Those make themselves their chief End, who ascribe the glory of what they have, or do, to themselves, and not to God, Dan. 4.30. The King spake and said, Is not this great Babylon which I have built? Isa. 10.18. For he saith, By the strength of my hand have I done it; and by my wisdom, for I am prudent; therefore they sacrifice to their own net, and burn Incense unto their Drag. Hab. 1.16.