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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. A true Love to his Government, and ⟨p. 243⟩Laws, and Holy Word; and that as it is his, and holy: And this so effectual, as that we unfeignedly desire to obey that word as the Rule of our Faith, and Life, and Hope: and desire to fulfil his Commanding Will.
A. 1. A true Love to his Government, and ⟨p. 243⟩Laws, and Holy Word; and that as it is his, and holy: And this so effectual, as that we unfeignedly desire to obey that word as the Rule of our Faith, and Life, and Hope: and desire to fulfill his Commanding Will.
2. A true Love to the Actions which God commandeth, (though flesh will have some degree of backwardness.)
3. A true Love to those that are likest God in Wisdom, Holiness and doing good; And such a Love to them as is above the Love of Worldly Riches, Honour and Pleasure, so that it will enable us to do them good, though by our suffering or loss in a lower matter, when God calls as to it. For if we see our Brother have need and shut up the bowels of Compassion, so that we cannot find in our hearts to relieve his necessities by the loss of our unnecessary superfluities, how dwelleth the Love of God in us?