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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. 14. Are the words [Six days shalt thou labour, &c.] a Command, or only a License?
Q. 14. Are the words [Six dayes shalt thou labour, &c.] a Command, or onely a License?
A. They are not only a License but a Command to man, cto live in an ordinary calling or Lawful course of Labour, according to each ones ability and ⟨p. 277⟩place, and diligently to exercise it, and not spend time in Idleness: And the ordinary time is here assigned thereto.
Q. 15. Then how can it be lawful to spend any of the week-days in Religious Exercises, any more than to spend any part of the Sabbath day in Labour?
Q. 15. Then how can it be lawful to spend any of the week-dayes in Religious Exercises, any more than to spend any part of the Sabbath day in Labour?