A26879:1669
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. 36. But what if we have Slaves, that are no Christians?
A. You must use them as Men, that are Capable of Christianity, and do your best with pity to cure their Ignorance and Unbelief and sin, and to make them Christians, preferring their Souls before your worldly commodity.
A. You must use them as Men, that are Capable of Christianity, and do your best with pity to cure their Ignorance and Unbelief and sin, and to make them Christians, preferring their Souls before your wordly commodity.
Q. 37. Is it lawful to buy and use men as Slaves?
A. It is a great mercy accidentally for those of Guinea, Brazil, and other Lands, to be brought among Christians, though it be as Slaves: But it is a sin in those that Sell and buy them as Beasts, merely for Commodity, and use them accordingly: But to buy them in compassion to their Souls as well as for their Service, and then to sell them only to such as will use them Charitably like men, and to employ them as aforesaid, preferring their Salvation, is a lawful thing, specially such as Sell themselves, or are sold as Malefactors.