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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. Some proper to Church Officers, and some •ommon to all.
Q. 11. What are his Laws about Church-Officers?
A. First, He chose himself the first chief Officers, •nd he gave them their Commission,† describing their Work and Office; and he Authorized them to gather •nd form particular Churches, and their fixed Officers •t Pastors, and necessary Orders, and gave them the extraordinary Conduct and Seal of his Spirit, that ⟨p. 196⟩their determinations might be the infallible significations of his Will, and his recorded Law to his Universal Church to the end of the World: His Spirit being the Perfecter of his Laws and Government.
A. First, He chose himself the first chief Officers, •nd he gave them their Commission,† describing their Work and Office; and he Authorized them to gather •nd form particular Churches, and their fixed Officers •t Pastors, and necessary Orders, and gave them the •xtraordinary Conduct and Seal of his Spirit, that ⟨p. 196⟩