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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. 1. It binds us to a continual humble sense of our own corrupt dispositions, apt to yield to Temptations, and of our danger, and of the evil of Sin: And it condemneth the unhumbled that know not, or fear not their pravity or danger.
2. It binds us all to fly from Temptations as far as ⟨p. 227⟩Lawfully we can; and condemneth them that rush fearlessly on them, yea, that tempt themselves and others. The best Man is not safe that will not avoid such Temptations as are suited to his corrupt Nature, when he may: While the bait is still near unto his Senses, he is in continual danger.h
2. It binds us all to fly from Temptations as far as ⟨p. 227⟩Lawfully we can; and condemneth them that rush fearlesly on them, yea, that tempt themselves and others. The best Man is not safe that will not avoid such Temptations as are suited to his corrupt Nature, when he may: While the bait is still near unto his Senses, he is in continual danger.h