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The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their householdsThe catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds
The catechizing of families a teacher of householders how to teach their households : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small catechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...The catechizing of families a teacher of housholders how to teach their housholds : useful also to school-masters and tutors of youth : for those that are past the common small chatechisms [sic], and would grow to a more rooted faith, and to the fuller understanding of all that is commonly needful to a safe, holy comfortable and profitable life / written by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1683
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. 9. What is the Sin which is contrary to this?
A. Profaneness; that is, using God's Name as a common thing: cAnd in this instance, to study Philosophy, Astronomy, or any Science, or any Creature whatsoever, only to know the thing it self, to delight our mind with the Creature-knowledge, and to be able to talk as knowing Men, or the better to serve our Worldly Ends, and not to know and glorify God, is to profane the works of God. And alas then how common is profaneness in the World!
A. Prophaneness; that is, using God's Name as a common thing: cAnd in this instance, to study Philosophy, Astronomy, or any Science, or any Creature whatsoever, only to know the thing it self, to delight our mind with the Creature-knowledge, and to be able to talk as knowing Men, or the better to serve our Worldly Ends, and not to know and glorifie God, is to prophane the works of God. And alas then how common is prophaneness in the World!
- cPsal. 14. 1, 2. Psal. 50 21. & •8. 19. Tit. 1. 16.
Q. 10. What is it to Sanctify God's Name as in our Redemption?