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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.
14. Lastly, another way of taking Gods Name vain, is by an unholy, unreverent tossing of it in co• mon talk in jest, and on every Ludicrous occasion Plays and Play-books use it: It's made an ordinal accident to all Common and Profane discours• Beggars profanely beg by it: Children cry by • [O God, and O Lord], is become an Interjection.
14. Lastly, another way of taking Gods Name vain, is by an unholy, unreverent tossing of it in co• mon talk in jest, and on every Ludicrous occasio• Playes and Play-books use it: It's made an ordina• accident to all Common and Prophane discours• Beggers prophanely begg by it: Children cry by • [O God, and O Lord], is become an Interjection.
Q. 7. Why do we take ordinary light Swearing, s• cially by God or by Sacred things, to be a sure sign a wicked man?
A. Because it showeth a predominant habit ⟨p. 271⟩Profaneness; that the man liveth without the reverence of Gods Holiness, Majesty, Knowledge and Presence, and is hardened into a senselessness or contempt of God and of his dreadful judgment, as if he derided God or dared him; or as if he did believe that there is no God that heareth him. To •ive in the fear of God, and Subjection to his Government, is the property of every godly man.