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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. Yes, as aforesaid, so far as they are hurtful to our Natures, and thereby to our Souls and the ends of Life.k
Q. 13. Doth not naming Bread before Forgiveness and Grace, show that we must first and most desire it.
Q. 13. Doth not naming Bread before Forgiveness and Grace, shew that we must first and most desire it.
A. We before expressed our highest desire of God's Glory, Kingdom and Will; and as to our own Interest, all the three last Petitions go together, and are inseparable;1 ⟨p. 217⟩but the first is the lowest, though it be first in place. Nature sustained is the first, but it will be but the subject of sin and misery without Pardon and Holiness: I told you that the three last Petitions go according to the Order of Execution, from the lowest to the highest step. God's Kingdom and Righteousness must be first sought in order of Estimation and Intention, by all that will attain them.
A. We before exprest our highest desire of God's Glory, Kingdom and Will; and as to our own Interest, all the three last Petitions go together, and are inseparable;1