A26879:1400
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. Scandal is enticing, tempting or encouraging others to sin, by doing or saying that which is like to be abused by them to such an effect: or laying a Stumbling-block in the way of blind or careless Souls. If they will make our necessary duty the occasion of sin, we may not therefore omit our duty, if indeed it be an in indispensable duty at that time: But if it be no duty, yea or if it be only a duty in other Seasons and Circumstances, it is a heinous sin to give such Scandal to another, much more to Multitudes or public Societies.
A. Scandal is enticing, tempting or encouraging others to sin, by doing or saying that which is like to be abused by them to such an effect: or laying a Stumbling-block in the way of blind or careless Souls. If they will make our necessary duty the occasion of sin, we may not therefore omit our duty, if indeed it be an in indispensable duty at that time: But if it be no duty, yea or if it be only a duty in other Seasons and Circumstances, it is a hainous sin to give such Scandal to another, much more to Multitudes or publick Societies.
Q. 5. Wherein lieth the evil of it?
Q. 5. Wherein lyeth the evil of it?
A. 1. It is a countenancing and furthering sin. 2. It is uncharitableness and cruelty to mens Souls. 3. And therefore it is the Devils work.b
- bMat. 18. 6, 7. 8, 9, &c. & 13. 41. 1 Cor. •. 13.