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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. 19. What doth daily Bread oblige us to?
A. Daily Service, and daily Love, and thankfulness to God, and to mind the end for which it's given, to be always ready at the end of a Day, to give up our account and end our journey.
A. Daily Service, and daily Love, and thankfulness to God, and to mind the end for which it's given, to be alwayes ready at the end of a Day, to give up our account and end our journey.
Q. 20. What is the sin and danger of the love of Riches?
A. The Love of Money or Riches, is but the fruit of the Love of the Flesh, whose Lust would never want Provision: But it is the Root of a Thousand ⟨p. 219⟩farther Evils. As it shows a wretched Soul, that doth not truly believe and trust God for this Life, much less for a better, but is Worldly and Sensual, and Idolatrous; so it leadeth a Man from God, Holiness, Heaven, yea and from common honesty, to all Iniquity: A Worldling, and lover of Riches, is false to his own Soul, to God and Man, and never to be much trusted.