A26879:1631
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.
This is the Catechism which Parents must te• their Children.
Q. 20. Alas, it will be a hard and long work • teach Children all this; or Servants either that • at age?
A. All this is but the plain meaning of the Cr• and ten Commandments; which the Church re• reth all to learn; And no more than in their B• tism the Parents should, and the Godfathers do, • lemnly Promise to see them taught. It is these thi• for which God hath given them life, and time, and • son; and on which their present safety and comfy and their Everlasting Life dependeth: And will y• set them seven years Apprentice to a Trade, • set them Seven and Seven to Schools and Univ• sities, and Inns of Court, where study must be th• daily business: And will you think it too much teach them the sense of the Creeds, Lords Pr• er and ten Commandments, needful to far gre• er and better ends?s