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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. 4. If God hate murder, why did he Command • Israelites to kill all the Canaanites, Men, Women ••d Children?
A. Justice done by God or his Authority on Capital Malefactors, is not murder. You may as well • why God will damn so many in Hell, which worse than Death. The Curse was fallen on Chams posterity: They were Nations of Idolaters, and Murderers ⟨p. 316⟩of their own Children, offering them to Idol and so drowned in all wickedness, that God justly ma• the Israelites his Executioners to take away th• forfeited Lands and Lives.c
A. Justice done by God or his Authority on Ca••tal Malefactors, is not murder. You may as well • why God will damn so many in Hell, which worse than Death. The Curse was fallen on Chams •osterity: They were Nations of Idolaters, and Murderers ⟨p. 316⟩of their own Children, offering them to Ido• and so drown'd in all wickedness, that God justly ma• the Israelites his Executioners to take away th• forfeited Lands and Lives.c