A26879:1605
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.
7. But lastly, the Conscience of Subjects duty to God must be tenderly used and encouraged, and their mistakes through infirmity must be tolerated in all tolerable cases: Some differences and disorders in judgement and practice must be born with by them that would not bring in greater. iGentle reasoning and Loving usage, must cure as much of the rest as will be cured: And our Concord must be placed in the few plain and necessary things: The King hath more wit and clemency than to hang all ignorant, erroneous, faulty Subjects, or else he would have none left to Govern. And if Pastors have not more wit and clemency than to excommunicate all such, they will be no Pastors as having no flocks. But heinous is their sin that can tolerate multitudes of the ignorant and ungodly in their Communion, who will ⟨p. 296⟩but be for their power and wealth, and can tolerate none of the Wise and Conscionable if they do but differ from them in tolerable cases, or dislike them. Yet there goeth more to make a tolerable Christian and Church-member, than a tolerable Subject: And consent to the Relation is necessary to both.
7. But lastly, the Conscience of Subjects duty to God must be tenderly used and encouraged, and their mistakes through infirmity must be tolerated in all tolerable cases: Some differences and disorders in judgement and practice must be born with by them that would not bring in greater. iGentle reasoning and Loving usage, must cure as much of the rest as will be cured: And our Concord must be placed in the few plain and necessary things: The King hath more wit and clemency than to hang all ignorant, erroneous, faulty Subjects, or else he would have none left to Govern. And if Pastors have not more wit and clemency than to excommunicate all such, they will be no Pastors as having no flocks. But hainous is their sin that can tolerate multitudes of the ignorant and ungodly in their Communion, who will ⟨p. 296⟩but be for their power and wealth, and can tolerate none of the Wise and Conscionable if they do but differ from them in tolerable cases, or dislike them. Yet there goeth more to make a tolerable Christian and Church-member, than a tolerable Subject: And consent to the Relation is necessary to both.