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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. 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
- oRom. 12. 3. & 14. 7. Mat. 16. •• ▪ & 18. 4. & 23. 12. Mar. 12. 33. Phil. 2. 4. 21.