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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.
2. Because we daily renew our sins, by omission and commission, and though the foundation of our Pardon be laid in our Regeneration, that it may be actual and full for following sins, we must have renewed Repentance, Faith and Prayer.
Q. 10. God is not changeable, to forgive to day what he forgave not yester day: What then is his forgiving Sin?
A. The unchangeable God changeth the Case of Man: And, 1. By his Law of Grace, forgiveth penitent Believers who were unpardoned in their impenitence and unbelief: And, 2. By his Executive Providence he taketh off and preventeth punishments both of Sense and Loss, and so forgiveth.
Q. 11. How can we pray for pardon to others, when we know not whether they be penitent Believers, capable of Pardon?