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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. No: To be the Instruments of Divine Legislation, and make Laws which God will call His Laws, is a special Prophetical Power and Office, such a• Moses had in making the Jewish Laws; which no• had that came after him. But when Prophetical Revelation hath made the Law, the following Office• have nothing to do; But, 1. To preserve that Law 2. And to expound it and apply it, and guide th• People by it, and themselves obey it. 3. And to ⟨p. 197⟩determine undetermined mutable Circumstances. As the Jewish Priests and Levites were not to make another Law, but to preserve, expound and Rule by Moses Law; so the ordinary Ministers, Bishops or Councils are to do as to the Laws of God, sufficiently made by Christ, and the Spirit in his Apostles.g
A. No: To be the Instruments of Divine Legislation, and make Laws which God will call His Laws, is a special Prophetical Power and Office, such a• Moses had in making the Iewish Laws; which no• had that came after him. But when Prophetical Revelation hath made the Law, the following Office• have nothing to do; But, 1. To preserve that Law 2. And to expound it and apply it, and guide th• People by it, and themselves obey it. 3. And to ⟨p. 197⟩determine undetermined mutable Circumstances. As the Iewish Priests and Levites were not to make another Law, but to preserve, expound and Rule by Moses Law; so the ordinary Ministers, Bishops or Councils are to do as to the Laws of God, sufficiently made by Christ, and the Spirit in his Apostles.g