A26879:1630
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.
A. 1. To take due care of their Lives, Health and •cessary Maintenance. q2. To teach them when •ey are capable to know God and his Word (his Do•ine, Laws, Promises and Penalties;) to know •emselves, their Souls, their Relation to God, their •ty to him, their Original pravity, and guilt, and anger: To know Jesus Christ, his Person, Life, doctrine, Death, Resurrection, Ascension Glory, •ngdom, Intercession, and Judgment: To know •e Holy Ghost as sent by Christ, to indite and •l the Scripture, qualify the Apostles and Evan•lists to deliver infallibly Christs Commands, and •ord them to all after Ages, and accordingly set• the Churches; to confirm their Ministry by Mi•les, and to sanctify all true Christians to the end • the world: To know the use of the ordinary •nistry, and of the Communion of Saints: To know • Covenant of Grace, and the Grace of Pardon, option and Sanctification which we must here re•ve, and the Glory which we shall receive hereafter ⟨p. 302⟩at Death and at the General Resurrection; A• the great duties of Faith and Repentance, of Obedience and Love to God and Man, and renounce the Lusts of the flesh, the world and the Devil, wh• must be done by all that will be Glorified by a• with Jesus Christ.r