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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.
Accordingly having in my Poor Mans Family Book, written two Catechisms of the former rank, I here add the third, for those that have learned the two first: Far am I from thinking that I have done any one of these to perfection; I never yet saw a Catechism without some notable imperfection: And no doubt mine are not free from such. But while I avoid what I see amiss in others, I hope God will illuminate some to do yet better, and to avoid what is amiss in mine. The degree which yet pretendeth to greater accurateness in Method, I have given in a Latin Methodus Theologiae.
Accordingly having in my Poor Mans Family Book, written two Catechisms of the former rank, I here adde the third, for those that have learned the two first: Far am I from thinking that I have done any one of these to perfection; I never yet saw a Catechism without some notable imperfection: And no doubt mine are not free from such. But while I avoid what I see amiss in others, I hope God will illuminate some to do yet beter, and to avoid what is amiss in mine. The degree which yet pretendeth to greater accurateness in Method, I have given in a Latine Methodus Theologiae.
The Uses for which I have written this, are these. I. For Masters of Families, who should endeavour to raise their Children and Servants to a good degree of Knowledge: I have divided it into short Chapters, that on the Lords days, or at nights when they have leisure, the Master may read to them one Chapter at a time, that is, the Exposition of one Article of the Creed, one Petition of the Lords Prayer, and one Commandment Expounded.
The Uses for which I have written this, are these. I. For Masters of Families, who should endeavour to raise their Children and Servants to a good degree of Knowledge: I have divided it into short Chapters, that on the Lords dayes, or at nights when they have leisure, the Master may read to them one Chapter at a time, that is, the Exposition of one Article of the Creed, one Petition of the Lords Prayer, and one Commandement Expounded.