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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.
III. But if they go from the Country Schools before they are capable of the Larger Catechisms, (as to their great loss most make too much hast away,) why may not their next Tutors make it their chief work to train up their Pupils as the Disciples of Jesus? (and yet not neglect either Aristotle, or any natural light;) To our present Universities I am not so vain as to offer such Instructions, (though to some small part of them I directed my Methodus Theologiae;) I learnt not of them, and I presume not to make my self their Teacher: Their late GUIDES, their WORLDLY-INTEREST, and their GENIUS, have made my Writings odious to many, even that which they like they will not read. But I have oft with Lamentation wondered why Godly Ministers do no more of the work now appropriated to Universities, for their own Sons? Those men whose Church zeal would ruine Non-conformists if they Teach many, ⟨image 4⟩either Boys or Men, have no Law against Parents teaching their own Children.
III. But if they goe from the Countrey Schools before they are capable of the Larger Catechisms, (as to their great loss most make too much hast away,) why may not their next Tutors make it their chief work to train up their Pupils as the Disciples of Iesus? (and yet not neglect either Aristotle, or any natural light;) To our present Universities I am not so vain as to offer such Instructions, (though to some small part of them I directed my Methodus Theologiae;) I learnt not of them, and I presume not to make my self their Teacher: Their late GUIDES, their WORLDLY-INTEREST, and their GENIUS, have made my Writings odious to many, even that which they like they will not read. But I have oft with Lamentation wondered why Godly Ministers do no more of the work now appropriated to Universities, for their own Sons? Those men whose Church zeal would ruine Non-conformists if they Teach many, ⟨image 4⟩either Boyes or Men, have no Law against Parents teaching their own Children.
1. Are you fit for the Ministry your selves? If so, cannot you teach others what you know? if you are defective in some useful Knowledge, let them elsewhere learn that afterwards.