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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.
CHAP. XXX. And lead us not into Temptation, but deliver us from Evil.
Qu. 1. Why is this made the Sixth Petition?
Qu. 1. WHy is this made the Sixth Petition?
A. Because it is the next in order to the attainment of our ultimate End; Our Natures being maintained, and our sin and punishment forgiven, we next need deliverance from all Evils that we are in danger of for the time to come; and then we are saved.
Q. 2. What is meant by Temptation?
A. Any such Trial as may overcome us or hurt us, whether by Satan, or by the strong allurements of the World and Flesh, or by Persecutions or other heavy Sufferings, which may draw us to sin, or make us miserable.