A26879:1643
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.
Q. 25. What if Children be rebellious in wickedness, as Drunkenness, Stealing, &c. must the Parents cause them to be put to death, as Moses Law Commanded? or what must they do with them?
A. Moses Law had some special Severities, and was peculiar to that Nation, and is abrogate: whether the Common good and safety require the death of such a Son (or any,) the Supreme Power is judge, and not the Parents: Nor is it meet (though some think otherwise) that Parents have the Power of putting to death their Children: For the Commonwealth, which is better than the Family, is concerned in all the Subjects lives: And experience proveth it, that were this granted, Whores, Beggars and raging passionate Persons would be Common Murderers of their Children.
A. Moses Law had some special Severities, and was peculiar to that Nation, and is abrogate: whether the Common good and safety require the death of such a Son (or any,) the Supream Power is judge, and not the Parents: Nor is it meet (though some think otherwise) that Parents have the Power of putting to death their Children: For the Commonwealth, which is better than the Family, is concerned in all the Subjects lives: And experience proveth it, that were this granted, Whores, Beggars and raging passionate Persons would be Common Murderers of their Children.
But if the Magistrate would appoint one house of Correction in every County for Children that will not be ruled by Parents, where they may be kept •n labour till they are humbled and subdued, it would •e an excellent work.