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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. 13. Is this Commandment of the Law of Nature as are the rest?
Q. 13. Is this Commandement of the Law of Nature as are the rest?
A. It was more of the Law of Nature to Adam than to us; his nature knowing otherwise than ours, both when God ended his works, and how beautiful they were before the Curse. It is now of the Law of Nature (that is, known by Natural light without other Revelation.) 1. That God should be worshipped: 2. That Societies should assemble to do it together: 3. That some set Time should be separated statedly to that use: 4. That it should be done with the whole heart, without worldly diversions or distractions.
But I know nothing in Nature alone from whence a man can prove that 1. It must be either just one day in seven, 2. Or just what day of the seven it must be: 3. Nor just what degree of Rest is necessary. Though reason may discern that one day in seven is a very convenient proportion.
Q. 14. Are the words [Six days shalt thou labour, &c.] a Command, or only a License?