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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. 11. Is àll use of Images unlawful?
A. God did so much hate Idolatry, and the Neighbourhood of the Idolaters made it so dangerous to the Israelites, that he did not only forbid the Worshipping of Images, but all such making or using of them as might become a snar• or temptation to any. So that though it be lawful to make Images for Civil uses, and when they are made, to fetch holy Thoughts or Meditation• from them, as from all other Creatures, or thing• in the World; yet in any case when they becom• a snare or danger (being not necessary things • they become a sin, to those that so use them as snare to others or themselves.g
Q. 12. Is it lawful to make any Picture of God?