A26879:1188
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. 11. Why say we [Give us] rather than [Give me]?
A. To exercise our common Love to one another, and renounce that narrow selfishness, which confineth Mens regard and desires to themselves: And to show that we come not to God merely in a single Capacity, but as Members of the World, as Men, and Members of Christ's Body or Church, as Christians: And that in the Communion Saints as we show our Charity to one another, so we have a part in the Prayers of all.
A. To exercise our common Love to one another, and renounce that narrow selfishness, which consineth Mens regard and desires to themselves: And to shew that we come not to God meerly in a single Capacity, but as Members of the World, as Men, and Members of Christ's Body or Church, as Christians: And that in the Communion Saints as we shew our Charity to one another, so we have a part in the Prayers of all.
Q. 12. May we then pray against Poverty and Sickness, and hurt?
A. Yes, as aforesaid, so far as they are hurtful to our Natures, and thereby to our Souls and the ends of Life.