A26879:1695
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. Because a mans Life is more precious than the ••cidents of his Life; Death depriveth him of all • time of Repentance and earthly Mercies; and depriveth all others of the benefit which they might ••ceive by him. They rob God and the King of Subject: Therefore God who is the giver of Life, a dreadful avenger of the sin of Murder; Cain ••as cast out with terror for this sin: for it was the •evils first Service, who was a Murderer from the ••ginning: Therefore God made of old the Law against eating Blood, lest men should be hardened • cruelty, and to teach them his hatred of blood••iltiness. aAnd it was the Murder of the Prophets and of Christ himself and his Apostles, that ••ought that dreadful destruction on the Jews, when wrath came upon them to the uttermost.b
A. Because a mans Life is more precious than the ••cidents of his Life; Death depriveth him of all • time of Repentance and earthly Mercies; and ••priveth all others of the benefit which they might ••ceive by him. They rob God and the King of Subject: Therefore God who is the giver of Life, a dreadful avenger of the sin of Murder; Cain ••as cast out with terrour for this sin: for it was the •evils first Service, who was a Murderer from the ••ginning: Therefore God made of old the Law •gainst eating Blood, lest men should be hardened • cruelty, and to teach them his hatred of bloodiltiness.