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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. 5. Why is it added [as it is done in Heaven?]
A. To mind us, 1. Of the perfect Holy Obedience of the Glorified. 2. And that we must make that our Pattern, and the End of our Desires. 3. And to keep up our Hopes and Desires of that Glorio• Perfection: And strive to do God's will understandingly, sincerely, fully, readily, delightfully, without unwillingness, unweariedly, concordantly, without division, in perfect Love to God, his work, an• one another: For so his will is done in Heaven. An• ⟨p. 211⟩these Holy heavenly Desires, are the Earnest of our Heavenly possession.
Q. 6. What is it that we pray against in this Petition?
A. Against all sin, as a Transgression of his Law, and against all distrust of his Promises, and Discontentedness with his Disposals: and so against every will, that is contrary to the will of God.