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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. 31. But sure Unity is so excellent that we may conceive God delighteth in all that promoteth it?
A. Yes: And therefore he would not leave the Terms of Unity to the Device of Men, in which they will never be of a mind, nor would he have Usurpers divide his Church by imposing impossible Terms of Unity. Must God needs make one Civil Monarch or Senate to be the Unifying Governor of all the Earth as one Kingdom, because he is a lover of Unity? The World is politically Unified by one God and Sovereign Redeemer, as this Kingdom is by one King, and not by one Civil humane Supreme Ruler, Personal or Collective: Men so mad as to dream of one Unifying Church Governing Monarch or Aristocracy, are the unfittest of all Men to pretend to such Government.r
A. Yes: And therefore he would not leave the Terms of Unity to the Device of Men, in which they will never be of a mind, nor would he have Usurpers divide his Church by imposing impossible Terms of Unity. Must God needs make one Civil Monarch or Senate to be the Unifying Governour of all the Earth as one Kingdom, because he is a lover of Unity? The World is politically Unified by one God and Soveraign Redeemer, as this Kingdom is by one King, and not by one Civil humane Supream Ruler, Personal or Collective: Men so mad as to dream of one Unifying Church Governing Monarch or Aristocracy, are the unfittest of all Men to pretend to such Government.r