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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. 1. By the matter which is different from it. 2. And by the Scripture which saith, There were Ten, and without this there is but Nine. 3. And by historical Tradition; which we can prove that the Papists falsify.
A. 1. By the matter which is different from it. 2. And by the Scripture which saith, There were Ten, and without this there is but Nine. 3. And by historical Tradition; which we can prove that the Papists falsifie.
Q. 3. What is the true Meaning of the Second Commandment? and wherein doth it differ from the ••rst?
Q. 3. What is the true Meaning of the Second Commandement? and wherein doth it differ from the ••rst?
A. The first Commandment bindeth us to give ⟨p. 252⟩God his own, or his due as God, both in heart and life, and to give it to no other. The second commandeth men to keep so wide a difference between God and Heathen Idols, as not to worship him as the Heathens do their Idols, nor yet to seem by their bodily action to worship an Idol, though they despise it in their Thoughts, and pretend to keep their hearts to God. Corporal and outward and seeming Idolatry is here forbidden. For though a man renounce in Heart all other Gods, yet if he be seen to bow down before an Image, •. He seemeth to the▪ beholder to mean as Idolaters do, while he symbolizeth with them. And as Lying and Perjury with the Tongue is sin, though a mans inward thoughts do own the truth, so bowing as Worshippers do before an Image, is Bodily Idolatry, though the mind renounce all Idols: And God is the God of the Body as well as of the Soul: And God would not have others encouraged to Idolatry by so scandalous an Example. 2. And if it be the true God that such profess to worship, it is interpretative Blasphemy; As if they told men, that God is like to that Creature whose Image they make. So that andal and Bodily Idolatry and Blasphemy are the things directly forbidden in this Commandment, as the real choosing and Worshipping a false God is in the first.