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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.
10. And Hypocrisy it self is a heinous taking Gods name in Vain. When we offer God the dead Carcass of Religious acts without the Life and Soul; and present him with Ceremony, self-exalting Pomp, mere heartless words, an artificial Image of Religion, that hath not the Spiritual Nature, Life, or serious ⟨p. 269⟩desire of the Heart; This is seeking to mock God, or making him like an Idol that seeth not the Heart, and knows not what is offered him. Alas! how much of the Preaching, Hearing, Praying and Sacraments of many is a taking God's Name in vain, as if he did accept a Lye?
10. And Hypocrisie it self is a hainous taking Gods name in Vain. When we offer God the dead Carkass of Religious acts without the Life and Soul; and present him with Ceremony, self-exalting Pomp, meer heartless words, an artificial Image of Religion, that hath not the Spiritual Nature, Life, or serious ⟨p. 269⟩desire of the Heart; This is seeking to mock God, or making him like an Idol that seeth not the Heart, and knows not what is offered him. Alas! how much of the Preaching, Hearing, Praying and Sacraments of many is a taking God's Name in vain, as if he did accept a Lye?
11. Another way of this Profanation is making Gods Name and acts of Religion an engagement to wickedness: As when men bind themselves to Treason, Murder or any sin, by taking the Sacrament. As many, Alas, (which I unwillingly Name) have done •n a blind zeal for the Roman Usurpation, being told •hat it pleaseth God and Saint Peter, and meriteth •alvation, to destroy the Enemies of the Church, that •s, of the Pope and his Clergy. And those that •ound themselves with an Oath to kill Paul, thought God accepted the Oath and deed. And the General Council at Lateran under Innocent the 3. which bound Temporal Lords to take an Oath to Exterminate such as they called Heretics, fathered the work on God by that Oath. And the Pope (and Council of Trent) which hath brought in on all the Clergy a new Oath to many new and sinful things, by that Oath make God the approver of all. And the Mahometans that give liberty of Religion, yet think t pleaseth God and meriteth Heaven to kill the Enemies of Mahomet. And Christ saith, They that kill you shall think they do God good service. And is t not profaning the Name of God, to make him the Author of the murder of his Servants?