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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. Yes: 1. The Preface: Hear O Israel: And [that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.] 2. The stating the Seventh ⟨p. 231⟩Day for the Sabbath, and the strict Ceremonial Rest commanded as part of the Sanctifying of it.
A. Yes: 1. The Preface: Hear O Israel: And [that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage.] 2. The stating the Seventh ⟨p. 231⟩Day for the Sabath, and the strict Ceremonial Rest commanded as part of the Sanctifying of it.
Q. 4. How doth Christ and his Apostles contract all the Law into that of Love?
A. God who as Absolute Lord, Owneth, moveth and disposeth of all,d doth as Sovereign Ruler give us Laws and execute them, and as Love and Benefactor giveth us all, and is the most Amiable Object and End of all: So that as to Love and Give is more than to Command, so to be Loved is more than as a Commander to be Obeyed: But ever includeth it, though it be eminently in its Nature above it. So that, 1. Objectively, Love to God, our Selves and Others in that measure that it is exercised Wisely, is Obedience Eminently and somewhat higher. 2. And Love as the Principle in Man, is the most powerful Cause of Obedience, supposing the Reverence of Authority and the fear of punishment, but is somewhat more Excellent than they. A Parents Love to a Child makes him more constant and full in all that he can do for him,e