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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. 8. What do the words signify [that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt?]
Q. 8. What do the words signifie [that brought thee out of the Land of Egypt?]
A. That besides the Right of Creation, God hath a Second Right to us as our Redeemer: The deliverance from Egypt was that Typical one that founded the Relation between him and the Common-wealth of Israel. But as the Decalogue is the Law of Christ, the meaning is [I am the Lord thy God who Redeemed thee from sin and misery by Jesus Christ. bSo that this signifieth the nearest Right and Reason of this Relation between God and Man. He giveth us his Law now not only as our Creator, but as our Redeemer: and as such we must be his willing Subjects and obey him.
A. That besides the Right of Creation, God hath a Second Right to us as our Redeemer: The deliverance from Egypt was that Typical one that founded the Relation between him and the Common-wealth of Israel. But as the Decalogue is the Law of Christ, the meaing is [I am the Lord thy God who Redeemed thee from sin and misery by Iesus Christ. bSo that this signifieth the nearest Right and Reason of this Relation between God and Man. He giveth us his Law now not only as our Creator, but as our Redeemer: and as such we must be his willing Subjects and obey him.