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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. This very Prayer puts us in hope that there are yet better things on Earth to be expected than the Church hath yet enjoyed. For when Christ bids us pray that [His Name may be hallowed, his Kingdom come, and his Will done on Earth as it is done in Heaven,] we may well hope that some such thing will be granted; for he hath promised to give us whatever we ask according to his Will in the Name of Christ: And he hath not bid us pray in vain.
But whether there shall be a Resurrection of th• Martyrs a thousand years before the general Resurrection; or whether there shall be only a Reformation by a holy Magistracy and Ministry; and how far Christ will manifest▪ himself on Earth; • confess are Questions too hard for for me to determine: He that is truly devoted to Christ, shall have his part in his Kingdom, though much be now unknown to him, of the Time, Place and Manner.t