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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. Though he was upright, yet his will was mutable; and by abusing that liberty, he fell. Eccles. 7.29. Lo this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions.
Q. 3. How did God leave him to abuse the freedom of will?
A. Not by inclining him to abuse it; but by with-holding that further grace which he was no way obliged to continue to him.
Q. 4. Did the will of man lose its liberty to good, by the Fall?