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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.
7. And in point of Honour, they are more ambitious to be well thought and spoken of, and praised themselves, both living and dead, than to have God and Truth, and Goodness honoured. And they can more easily bear one that dishonoureth God, and Truth and Holiness, yea and common Righteousness and Honesty, than one that (though justly) dishonoureth them.
7. And in point of Honour, they are more ambitious to be well thought and spoken of, and praised themselves, both living and dead, than to have God and Truth, and Goodness honou•ed. And they can more easily bear one that dishonoureth God, and Truth and Holiness, yea and common Righteousness and Honesty, than one that (though justly) dishonoureth them.
So that all the World may easily see that carnal SELF and specially SELF-WILL is the greatest Idol in the World.s
- s2. Tim. 3. 2, •. Pro. 21.4. Ps. 10.2, 4.
Q. 19. But is not that a mans Idol which he Trusteth most? and all men are so Conscious of their own Insufficiency, that they cannot Trust themselves for their own preservation?