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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. 24. What is the meaning and extent of the promise of Mercy to thousands of them that Love him and keep his Commandments?
Q. 24. What is the meaning and extent of the promise of Mercy to thousands of them that Love him and keep his Commandements?
A. 1. As to the Subject it must be noted, that such a Belief in God as causeth men to Love him and keep his Commandments, is the qualification ⟨p. 261⟩of them that have the promise of Gods saving Mercy: Faith working by Love and Obedience.
A. 1. As to the Subject it must be noted, that such a Belief in God as causeth men to Love him and keep his Commandements, is the qualification ⟨p. 261⟩of them that have the promise of Gods saving Mercy: Faith working by Love and Obedience.
2. The words signify Gods wonderful Mercy and his delight to do good to those that are qualified to receive it.
2. The words signifie Gods wonderful Mercy and his delight to do good to those that are qualified to receive it.