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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.
He that denieth Christ to be the Lawgiver, denied him to be King, and he that denieth him to be King ⟨p. 199⟩denieth him to be Christ, and is no Christian.
Q. 17. Hath Christ any Vicegerent or Universal Governor under him on Earth?
Q. 17. Hath Christ any Vicegerent or Universal Governour under him on Earth?
A. No: It is his Prerogative to be the Universal Governor: for no mortal Man is capable of it: As no one Monarch is capable of the Civil Government of all the Earth, nor was ever so mad as to pretend to it; much less is any one capable of being an Universal Church-Teacher, Priest, and Governor over all the Earth; when he cannot so much as know it, or send to all, or have access into the contending Kingdoms of the World: To pretend to this is mad Usurpation.l
A. No: It is his Prerogative to be the Universal Governour: for no mortal Man is capable of it: As no one Monarch is capable of the Civil Government of all the Earth, nor was ever so mad as to pretend to it; much less is any one capable of being an Universal Church-Teacher, Priest, and Governour over all the Earth; when he cannot so much as know it, or send to all, or have access into the contending Kingdoms of the World: To pretend to this is mad Usurpation.l