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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. That body and mind might be free from diversion, weariness and distraction, and fit with pleasure wholly to serve God, in the religious duties of his Worship.
A. That body and mind might be free from diversion, weariness and distraction, and fit with pleasure wholly to serve God, in the religious dutyes of his Worship.
Q. 21. Why doth God mention not only Servants but Beasts?
A. As he would not have Servants enslaved and abused by such Labour as should unfit them for Sabbath-work and Comfort, so he would have man exercise the clemency of his Nature even towards the Brutes: and Beasts cannot labour, but man will be put to some Labour or diversion by it: And God would have the whole place where we dwell, and all that we have to do with, to bear an open signification of our obedience to his Command, and our reverence to his sanctified Day and Worship.
Q. 22. Is this Commandment now in force to Christians?