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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.
3. And common reason will tell us, that a Law obeying all men to spend one day of seven in Learn• Gods Word, and offering him holy Worship, •st needs tend abundantly more to the increase of knowledge and Holiness, than if all men were left •heir own or to their Rulers wills herein.
3. And common reason will tell us, that a Law ob•ing all men to spend one day of seven in Learn• Gods Word, and offering him holy Worship, •st needs tend abundantly more to the increase of ••owledge and Holiness, than if all men were left •heir own or to their Rulers wills herein.
4. And common experience puts the matter of fact • of doubt, that where the Lords day is most con•nably spent in holy exercises, there Knowledge, •ty, Charity and all Virtue, do most notably pros•: And where the sanctifying of the Lords day neglected, Ignorance, Sensuality and Worldliness •nd. O how many millions of Souls hath Grace hearted and comforted and edified on the Lords •es! When men are obliged to hear, read, pray, • praise God, and to Catechize their Children and •vants, as that which God requireth, is it not liker •e done, than if they be left to their own errone•, backward, sluggish minds, or to the Will of ers perhaps worse than they?