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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. Things are necessary to our well▪being, that are not necessary to our Being: We may ask and thankfully use all that by strengthening and comforting Nature, tendeth to fit the Spirit for the joyful Service of God, and to be helpful to others. But we must neither ask nor use any thing for the service of our Lusts, or tempting unprofitable pleasure.
Q. 15. What if God deny us necessaries, and a Christian should be put to beg or be famished, how then doth God make good his Word, that he will give us whatever we ask through Christ, and that other things shall be added if we seek first his Kingdom and Righteousness, and that Godliness hath the promise of this Life and that to come?
A. Remember as aforesaid, 1. That the things of this Life are promised and given, not as our happiness, but as Means to better. 2. And that we are promised no more than we are fit to receive and use. 3. And that God is the highest Judge, both how far outward things would help or hinder us; and how far we are fit to receive them. Therefore if he deny them, he1 ⟨p. 218⟩certainly knoweth that either we are unmeet for them, or they for us.m
- 1(l) Mat. 6. 33. Joh. 5. 40.