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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.
A. First, it is an awakening Caveat to bid us take special care that we break not this Commandment 2. And then that we must prepare before it comes ⟨p. 275⟩to avoid the things that would hinder us in the duty, and to be fit for it's performance.
A. First, it is an awakening Caveat to bid us take special care that we break not this Commandement 2. And then that we must prepare before it comes ⟨p. 275⟩to avoid the things that would hinder us in the duty, and to be fit for it's performance.
Q. 8. Why is [Remember] put before this more than before the rest of the Commandments?
Q. 8. Why is [Remember] put before this more than before the rest of the Commandements?
A. Because, 1. Being but of Positive institution, and not naturally known to man, as other duties are, they had need of a positive excitation and Remembrance. And 2. It is of great importance to the constant and acceptable worship, and the avoiding of impediments to keep close to the due Time which God hath appointed for it: And to violate it, tendeth to Atheistical ungodliness.