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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. Because it must be the Third in our Desires: I told you this Prayer in perfect Method beginneth at that which must be the first in our Intention; and that is, God's Interest as above our own, which is consistent and expressed in these three gradations: 1. The highest Notion of it is, The Hallowing and Glorifying of his Name, and resplendent perfections. 2. The Second is that in which this is chiefliest notified to Man, which is his Kingdom. 3. The Third is the Effect of this Kingdom in the fulfilling of his will.
A. Because it must be the Third in our Desires: I told you this Prayer in perfect Method beginneth at that which must be the first in our Intention; and that is, God's Interest as above our own, which is consistent and exprest in these three gradations: 1. The highest Notion of it is, The Hallowing and Glorifying of his Name, and resplendent perfections. 2. The Second is that in which this is chiefliest notified to Man, which is his Kingdom. 3. The Third is the Effect of this Kingdom in the fulfilling of his will.
Q. 2. What will of God is it that is here meant?
A. His Governing and Beneficent will: expressed in his Laws and Promises, concerning Man's Duty, and God's Rewards and Gifts.a