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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. Some say that by Bread is meant Jesus Christ▪ because there is no Petition that mentioneth him?
A. Every part of the Lord's Prayer includeth Christ: It is by him that God is our Father, by him that the Holy Name of God is hallowed: It is his Kingdom that we pray may come; it is his Law or will which we pray may be done: It is he that purchaseth our right to the Creature and redeemed Nature: It is by him that we must have the forgiveness of Sin, and by his Grace that we are delivered from temptations and all Evil, &c.
Q. 6. Why ask we Bread of God as the Giver?
A. To signify that we are and have nothing but by his gift, and must live in continual dependence on his Will, and begging, receiving, and thanksgiving are our work.d
A. To signifie that we are and have nothing but by his gift, and must live in continual dependance on his Will, and begging, receiving, and thanksgiving are our work.