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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. 28. Doth not Paul tell us that all days are alike, •• we must not judge one another for days? Why then ••d Christians make a difference, and not serve God ••lly every day?
Q. 28. Doth not Paul tell us that all dayes are alike, •• we must not judge one another for dayes? Why then ••d Christians make a difference, and not serve God ••lly every day?
A. Paul tells you, that Christ hath taken away the ••ish Ceremonial difference of days; for neglect •• which none is to be judged: But it followeth not ••• Christ hath made no difference himself, and hath •• stated a day for Christian Work in Communion ••ve the rest. One hour of the day doth not in ••lf now differ from another. And yet every wise ••ter of a Family will keep the Order of stated ••s, for Dinner and for Prayer. And so will a ⟨p. 284⟩Congregation for Lectures and other ordinary oc•• scions. I told you in the beginning that the Light • Law of nature tells us, that Gods public Wors••• should have a stated day; in which as free from versions and distractions, we should wholly ap• our selves thereto. And that all the Christians in world assemble for the same work on the same d hath much of laudable concord, harmony and mal help. And therefore it concerned him who o is the King and Law-giver to the universal Chur to make them a Law for the determination of day, which he hath done.