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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.
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?
4. True Love to God doth Love it self. It is a great sign of it, when we so much love to Love God, as that we are gladder when we feel it in us, than for any worldly Vanity; and when we take the Mutual Love of God and the Soul to be so good and joyful a State, as that we truly desire it as our Felicity and best in Heaven, to be perfectly Loved of God, and perfectly to Love him, and joyfully express it in his Everlasting praises. To long to Love God as the best Condition for us, is a sign that we truly Love •im.i
4. True Love to God doth Love it self. It is a great sign of it, when we so much love to Love God, as that we are gladder when we feel it in us, than for any worldly Vanity; and when we take the Mutual Love of God and the Soul to be so good and joyful a State, as that we truly desire it as our Felicity and best in Heaven, to be •erfectly Loved of God, and perfectly to Love him, and joyfully express it in his Everlasting prai•es. To long to Love God as the best Condition for us, is a sign that we truly Love •im.i