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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.
VI. One of the most heinous crimes is soul-murder: which is done by all that draw or drive men into sin, or from their duty to God and the care of their Salvation: either by seducing false Opinions, opposing necessary Truth and Duty, or by scorns, or threats. But none here sin so grievously as wicked Rulers, and wicked Teachers and Pastors of the Churches: Others kill Souls by one and one, but these by hundreds and thousands: And therefore it is the Devils main endeavour through the World, to get Rulers and Teachers on his side, and turn the Word and Sword against him that did ordain them. All the Idolatrous ⟨p. 320⟩World that know not Christ, are kept under the Power of the Devil, principally by wicked Rulers and Teachers: And so is the Infidel and Mahometan World. When the Turks had once conquered the Eastern Empire, how quickly did those famous Churches and large Nations forsake Christ, and turn to the grossest of Deceivers! O how many millions of Souls have been since hereby destroyed! And what wicked deceitful, and contentious Teachers have done to the murdering of Souls, alas! the whole Christian World is witness. Some by Heresy, and some by Proud Tyranny, and some by malignant opposition to the serious practice of that holy Law of God which they preach; and some by Ignorance, and some by slothful treacherous negligence, and some by Church-divisions, by their Snares, or contentiousness. Such as Paul speaks of, Phil. 1. 15, 16. & 2. 3. And some in envy malign and hinder the preaching of the Gospel, by such as they distaste, 1 Thes. 2. 16.
VI. One of the most hainous crimes is soul-murder: which is done by all that draw or drive men into sin, or from their duty to God and the care of their Salvation: either by seducing false Opinions, opposing necessary Truth and Duty, or by scorns, or threats. But none here sin so grievously as wicked Rulers, and wicked Teachers and Pastors of the Churches: Others kill Souls by one and one, but these by hundreds and thousands: And therefore it is the Devils main endeavour through the World, to get Rulers and Teachers on his side, and turn the Word and Sword against him that did ordain them. All the Idolatrous ⟨p. 320⟩