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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. 20. Is there not much selfishness in all? By this you will make all men, even the best, to be Idolaters. But a man cannot be saved that l•veth in Idolatry.
A. It is not every subdued degree of any fault that denominateth the man, but that which is predominant in him: every man hath some Unbelief, some backwardness to God and Goodness, some hypocrisy, pride, &c. and yet every man is not to be called An Infidel, an enemy to God and Goodness, an hypocrite, &c. So every man hath some Idolatry and some Atheism remaining, and yet is not an Idolater or Atheist: If a man could not be saved till he were perfectly healed of every degree of these heinous sins, no man could be Saved. But Gods Interest is predominant in holy Souls.
A. It is not every subdued degree of any fault that denominateth the man, but that which is predominant in him: every man hath some Unbelief, some backwardness to God and Goodness, some hypocrisie, pride, &c. and yet every man is not to be called An Infidel, an enemy to God and Goodness, an hypocrite, &c. So every man hath some Idolatry and some Atheism remaining, and yet is not an Idolater or Atheist: If a man could not be saved till he were perfectly healed of every degree of these hainous sins, no man could be Saved. But Gods Interest is predominant in holy Souls.
Q. 21. Doth not Paul say, of all save Timothy, That All seek their own, and not the things that are Jesus Christ's?