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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. 29. But is it not more spiritual to make e• day a Sabbath?
A. It is most Christian-like to obey Christ • King. Thus the same men pretend to make ev• meal a Sacrament, that they may break the Law Christ who instituted the Sacrament. Satan's way drawing men from Christs Laws, is sometime by •tending to do more and better. But to keep ev••• day a Sabbath, is to keep none. It is not lawful cast off our outward labour all the six days: nor • mind or body bear it to do nothing but religious W•• s•ip. These men mean no more but to follow th• earthly business with a spiritual mind, and at so• seasons of the day to worship God solemnly: And • is but what every good Christian should do every • But who knoweth not that the mind may with more advantage attend Gods instructions, and be •ed to him in holy Worship, when all worldly averting businesses are laid by, and the whole man •• ployed towards God alone.
A. It is most Christian-like to obey Christ • King. Thus the same men pretend to make ev• meal a Sacrament, that they may break the Law Christ who instituted the Sacrament. Satans way drawing men from Christs Laws, is sometime by •tending to do more and better. But to keep ev••• day a Sabbath, is to keep none. It is not lawful cast off our outward labour all the six dayes: nor mind or body bear it to do nothing but religious W sip. These men mean no more but to follow th earthly business with a spiritual mind, and at so seasons of the day to worship God solemnly: And is but what every good Christian should do every But who knoweth not that the mind may with more advantage attend Gods instructions, and be ed to him in holy Worship, when all worldly verting businesses are laid by, and the whole man ployed towards God alone.