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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. 11. What is this GOD to us?
A. He is our Maker; and therefore our absolute Owner, our Supreme Ruler, and our Chief Benefactor and Ultimate End.
A. He is our Maker; and therefore our absolute Owner, our Supream Ruler, and our Chief Benefactor and Ultimate End.
Q. 12. And how stand we related to him? what duty do we owe him? and what may we expect from him?
A. We are his Creatures; and all that we are and have is of him; we are his Subjects, made with Life, Reason and Free-will, to be ruled by him: He is the Infinite Good, and Love it self. ⟨p. 13⟩Therefore we owe him perfect Resignation, perfect Obedience, and perfect Complacency and Love▪ All that we are, and all that we have, and all that we can do, is due to him in the way of our Obedience; to pay which, is our own Rectitude and Felicity as it is our Duty: But all this you must much better learn from his Word, than Nature alone can teach it you. Though Mans Nature and the frame of Nature about us, so fully proveth what I have said, as leaveth all the Ungodly without excuse.