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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. No: if they are able: It is part of Gods Service, and Riches are his gift: And to whom he giveth much, from them he expecteth not less but more: Shall servants work less because they have more wages? It is not only for their own supplies that God commandeth men to Labour, but also for the public good, and the benefit or relief of others: and the health of their Bodies, and the suitable employment of their minds, and that none of their short precious time be lost in sinful idleness.f
A. No: if they are able: It is part of Gods Service, and Riches are his gift: And to whom he giveth much, from them he expecteth not less but more: Shall servants work less because they have more wages? It is not only for their own supplyes that God commandeth men to Labour, but also for the publick good, and the benefit or relief of others: and the health of their Bodies, and the suitable employment of their minds, and that none of their short precious time be lost in sinful idleness.f
- fSee Prov. 31. 27, &c.
Q. 18. But it will seem sordid for Lords, and Knights, and Ladies to labour?
A. It is swinish and sinful not to Labour: But they must do it in works that are suitable to their places. As Physicians, School-masters, and Church-Ministers, labour not in the same kind of employment as Plough-men and Tradesmen do; so Magistrates have their proper Labour in Government, and Rich Persons have Families, Children and Servants to oversee, their poor Neighbours and Tenants to visit, encourage and relieve, and their equals so to converse