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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. God hath Blessings and Curses for Societies as well as for individual persons; And societies are constituted and known by the Symbols of public profession. And as Gods public Worship is the Symbol of his Church which he will bless, so Idolatrous Worship is the Symbol of the societies which he will Curse and Punish. And it was Specially needful that the Israelites should know this, who could never else have been excused from the guilt of Murdering Man, Woman and Child of all the Nations which they conquered, had not God taken it on himself as judging •hem to death for their Idolatry and other Crimes, •nd making the Israelites his Executioners.i
A. God hath Blessings and Curses for Societies as well as for individual persons; And societies are constituted and known by the Symbols of publick profession. And as Gods publick Worship is the Symbol of his Church which he will bless, so Idolatrous Worship is the Symbol of the societies which he will Curse and Punish. And it was Specially needful that the Israelites should know this, who could never else have been excused from the guilt of Murdering Man, Woman and Child of all the Nations which they conquered, had not God taken it on himself as judging •hem to death for their Idolatry and other Crimes, •nd making the Israelites his Executioners.i
- iJer. 10. 25. Deu. 2. 34. & 3. 6. & 4. 26. Num. 33. 50, 51, 52. Deu. 7. 2, 23, 24. & 12. 2, 3. • 20. 17, 20.