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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. 17. Which is the greatest and commonest Idol of the World?
A. Carnal-self: By sin man is fallen from God to his Carnal-self; to which he giveth that which is Gods proper due.
Q. 18. How doth this Selfishness appear and work as Idolatry?
A. 1. In that such men love their Carnal-self and Pleasure and Prosperity, and the Riches that are the provision for the Flesh, better than God: I mean not only more sensibly, but with a preferring, choosing Love: And that which as Best is most loved, i• made a mans God. The Images of Heathens wer• not so much their Idols as Themselves: For non• of them loved their Images better than themselves nor than a Worldling loveth his Wealth, Power an• Honour.o
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