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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. 6. Which be the chief ways of taking Gods Name in vain?
Q. 6. Which be the chief wayes of taking Gods Name in vain?
A. 1. Fathering on him false Doctrine, Revelations or Laws; saying as false Prophets, God sent me, and Thus saith the Lord, when it is false; saying, This Doctrine or this Prophecy Gods Spirit revealed to me, when it is not so; therefore all Christians must be very fearful of false Revelations and Prophecies, and see that they believe not every Spirit, nor pretend to Revelations; and to take heed of taking ⟨p. 265⟩the Suggestions of Satan, or their crazed melancholy Fancies, for the Revelations of God.
2. So also Gathering false Doctrines out of Scripture by false Expositions, and fathering these on God. And therefore all men should in dark and doubtful cases, rather suspend their judgments till they have overcome their doubts by solid Evidence, than rashly to conclude, and confidently and fiercely dispute for Error. It's a great profanation to father Lies on God, who is the Hater of them, when Lying is the Devils work and character.
2. So also Gathering false Doctrines out of Scripture by false Expositions, and fathering these on God. And therefore all men should in dark and doubtful cases, rather suspend their judgments till they have overcome their doubts by solid Evidence, than rashly to conclude, and confidently and fiercely dispute for Errour. It's a great prophanation to father Lies on God, who is the Hater of them, when Lying is the Devils work and character.