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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. 10. Why is this description of Gods Sovereignty, and Mans Subjection, and the Ground of it, set before the Commandments?
Q. 10. Why is this description of Gods Soveraignty, and Mans Subjection, and the Ground of it, set before the Commandements?
A. Because, 1. Faith must go before Obedience.c He that will come to God and obey him, must Believe that God is God, and that he is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, Heb. 11. 6. And he that will obey him as our Redeemer, must believe that we are Redeemed by Jesus Christ, and that he is our Lord and King. 2. And Relations go before the Duties of Relation: And our Consent foundeth the mutual Relation. The nature and form of Obedience is, To Obey another's Commanding will because he is our Rightful Governor. No Man can Obey him formally whom he taketh not for his Ruler. And Subjection or Consent to be Governed, is Virtually all Obedience.
A. Because, 1. Faith must go before Obedience.c He that will come to God and obey him, must Believe that God is God, and that he is the Rewarder of them that diligently seek him, Heb. 11. 6. And he that will obey him as our Redeemer, must believe that we are Redeemed by Jesus Christ, and that he is our Lord and King. 2. And Relations go before the Dutyes of Relation: And our Consent foundeth the mutual Relation. The nature and form of Obedience is, To Obey anothers Commanding will because he is our Rightful Governour. No Man can Obey him formally whom he taketh not for his Ruler. And Subjection or Consent to be Governed, is Virtually all Obedience.
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