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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. They are bound to do their duty whoever is their Monitor: But if Prelates bid them sin, they sin by obeying them: Nor may a Magistrate punish a Man merely because Bishops judge him punishable, without trying the Cause themselves.
A. They are bound to do their duty whoever is their Monitor: But if Prelates bid them sin, they sin by obeying them: Nor may a Magistrate punish a Man meerly because Bishops judge him punishable, without trying the Cause themselves.
Q. 30. But if it be not of Divine Institution that all the Church on Earth should have one Governing Unifying Head (Monarchical or Aristocratical) is it not meet as suited to humane Prudence?
A. Christ is the builder of his own Church or House, and hath not left it to the Wit or Will of Man,q to ⟨p. 205⟩make him a Vicegerent, or an Unifying Head or Ruler of his whole Church, that is, to set up an Usurper against him under his own Name, which is Naturally uncapable of the Office.