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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. 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.
Q. 9. Why is it called [The Sabbath of the Lord thy God?]
A. Because 1. God did institute and separate it: 2. And it is separated to the honour and Worship of God.