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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.
A. God made Man very good at first, and that was in his own Image: And so much of this is either left by the interposition of Grace in lapsed Nature, or by common Grace restored to it, as that all Men, till utterly debauched, would fain be accounted Good, Pious, Virtuous, and Just, and hate the imputation ⟨p. 191⟩of Wickedness, dishonesty and Badness: And on the Regenerate the Divine Nature is so renewed, as that their Inclination is towards God, and HOLINESS TO THE LORD is written on all their Faculties: And the Spirit of God moveth on the Soul, to actuate all his Graces; and to plead for God and our Redeemer, and bring Him to our Remembrance, to our Affections, and to subject us wholly to his Will and Love. And thus as the Law was written in Stone as to the Letter, which is written only on tender fleshy Hearts as to the Spirit and Holy effect and disposition; so the Name of God which is in the Bible in the Letter, is by the same Spirit imprinted on Believers Hearts, that is, They have the Knowledge, Faith, Fear and Love of God.g
A. God made Man very good at first, and that was in his own Image: And so much of this is either left by the interposition of Grace in lapsed Nature, or by common Grace restored to it, as that all Men, till utterly debauched, would fain be accounted Good, Pious, Vertuous, and Just, and hate the imputation ⟨p. 191⟩of Wickedness, dishonesty and Badness: And on the Regenerate the Divine Nature is so renewed, as that their Inclination is towards God, and HOLINESS TO THE LORD is written on all their Faculties: And the Spirit of God moveth on the Soul, to actuate all his Graces; and to plead for God and our Redeemer, and bring Him to our Remembrance, to our Affections, and to subject us wholly to his Will and Love. And thus as the Law was written in Stone as to the Letter, which is written only on tender fleshy Hearts as to the Spirit and Holy effect and disposition; so the Name of God which is in the Bible in the Letter, is by the same Spirit imprinted on Believers Hearts, that is, They have the Knowledge, Faith, Fear and Love of God.g
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