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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.
9. Another way is by false Vows made to God himself. When men either Vow to God, to do that which he abhorreth or hath forbidden: Or when they Vow that which is good with a false deceitful Heart, and as Ananias and Sapphira with false reserves; or when they Vow and pay not, but wilfully break the Vows which they have made. The breach of Covenants between Princes, or between them and Subjects, or between Husband and Wife confirmed by appeal to God, is a dreadful sin; But the violation of the great Baptismal Vow in which we are all solemnly devoted and obliged to God, is one of the heinousest sins in the World: When it is not about a lesser duty, but even our Oath of Allegiance to God, by solemn Vow taking him for our God, our Saviour and Sanctifier, and giving up our selves to him accordingly, renouncing the contrary, and laying on this Covenant all our Hopes of Grace and Glory, Pardon and Salvation, what can be more heinous than to be false to such a Vow and Covenant?c
9. Another way is by false Vows made to God himself. When men either Vow to God, to do that which he abhorreth or hath forbidden: Or when they Vow that which is good with a false deceitful Heart, and as Ananias and Sapphira with false reserves; or when they Vow and pay not, but wilfully break the Vows which they have made. The breach of Covenants between Princes, or between them and Subjects, or between Husband and Wife confirmed by appeal to God, is a dreadful sin; But the violation of the great Baptismal Vow in which we are all solemnly devoted and obliged to God, is one of the hainousest sins in the World: When it is not about a lesser duty, but even our Oath of Allegiance to God, by solemn Vow taking him for our God, our Saviour and Sanctifier, and giving up our selves to him accordingly, renouncing the contrary, and laying on this Covenant all our Hopes of Grace and Glory, Pardon and Salvation, what can be more hainous than to be false to such a Vow and Covenant?c