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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 24. How prove you all this?
A. 1. As Moses was Ruler or Mediator to none but the Jews, and the words of the Decalogue are appropriate to them as redeemed from Egyptian bondage, so the Tables were delivered to no other: and a Law cannot bind any without promulgation. All the world was not bound to send to the Jews for Revelation, nor to be their Proselytes.
A. 1. As Moses was Ruler or Mediator to none but the Iews, and the words of the Decalogue are appropriate to them as redeemed from Egyptian bondage, so the Tables were delivered to no other: and a Law cannot bind any without promulgation. All the world was not bound to send to the Iews for Revelation, nor to be their Proselytes.
2. The Scripture expressly affirmeth the change, 2 Cor. 3. 3, 7, 11. If the ministration of death written and engraven in stones was glorious, so that the Children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the Glory of his Countenance, which was to be (or is) done away, &c. For if that which is done away was Glorious (or, By Glory) much more that which remaineth is Glorious (or In glory.) Here it is evident that it is the Law written on Stone that is mentioned, and that it is not (as some say) the Glory only of Moses Face or the flaming mount which is done away; (for that was done away in a few days;) But it is the Law which is called Glorious that is said to be done away. ⟨p. 281⟩The words can bear no other sense. It's too tedious to cite all: The Texts following fully prove it;