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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. The Covenant of Grace in the last Edition is his Law, hby which he obligeth Men to Repent and Believe in him as Incarnate, Crucified, and Ascended, and Interceding and Reigning in Heaven, and as one that will Judge the World at the Resurrection: As one that pardoneth Sin by his Sacrifice and Merit, and Sanctifieth Believers by his Spirit: And to believe in God as thus reconciled by Him, and in the Holy Ghost as thus given by him: And he promiseth Pardon, Grace and Glory to all true Believers, and threateneth Damnation to impenitent Unbelievers: And he commandeth all Believers to devote themselves thus to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, by a solemn Vow in Baptism, and live in the Communion of Saints, in his Church, and Holy Worship, and the frequent Celebration of the Memorial of his Death in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood, especially on the first Day of the Week which he hath separated to that Holy Commemoration and Communion by his ⟨p. 198⟩Resurrection, and the sending of his Spirit, and by his Apostles. And he hath commanded all his Disciples to live in Unity, Love and Beneficence, taking up the Cross, and following him in Holiness and Patience, in hope of Everlasting Life.i
A. The Covenant of Grace in the last Edition is his Law, hby which he obligeth Men to Repent and Believe in him as Incarnate, Crucified, and Ascended, and Interceding and Reigning in Heaven, and as one that will Judge the World at the Resurrection: As one that pardoneth Sin by his Sacrifice and Merit, and Sanctifieth Believers by his Spirit: And to believe in God as thus reconciled by Him, and in the Holy Ghost as thus given by him: And he promiseth Pardon, Grace and Glory to all true Believers, and threatneth Damnation to impenitent Unbelievers: And he commandeth all Believers to devote themselves thus to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, by a solemn Vow in Baptism, and live in the Communion of Saints, in his Church, and Holy Worship, and the frequent Celebration of the Memorial of his Death in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood, especially on the first Day of the Week which he hath separated to that Holy Comemoration and Communion by his ⟨p. 198⟩