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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.
Q. 23. But hath not Christ his Subordinate Official Governors?
Q. 23. But hath not Christ his Subordinate Official Governours?
A. Yes: Magistrates by the Sword, and Pastors by the Word and Keys: These are Rulers in their several Circuits, as all the Judges and Justices, and Schoolmasters of England are under the King: But he that should say, that all these Judges and Justices are one Sovereign Aristocracy, to make Laws and Judge by them by Vote (as one Person political, though many Natural) would give them part of the Supreme power, and not only the Official: All the Pastors in the World, Guide all the Churches in the World, by parts, and in their several Provinces, and not as One Politic Person.
A. Yes: Magistrates by the Sword, and Pastors by the Word and Keyes: These are Rulers in their several Circuits, as all the Judges and Justices, and Shoolmasters of England are under the King: But he that should say, that all these Judges and Justices are one Sovereign Aristocracy, to make Laws and Judge by them by Vote (as one Person political, though many Natural) would give them part of the Supream power, and not only the Official: All the Pastors in the World, Guide all the Churches in the World, by parts, and in their several Provinces, and not as One Politick Person.
Q. 24. But how is the Universal Church visible, if it have no Visible Unifying Head and Government under Christ?