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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.
A. 2. The Governing power of the Husband over the Wife; whose very nature as well as Original shows that she was made to be Subject, though under the Law of Love.
A. 2. The Governing power of the Husband over the Wife; whose very nature as well as Original shews that she was made to be Subject, though under the Law of Love.
Q. 10. But is not this by consent rather than by nature?
A. It is by Consent that a woman is married: but when she hath made her self a Wife, Nature maketh her a Subject; unless madness or disability make the man unmeet for his place.
Q. 11. Which is the next sort of Natural Government?
A. 3. The Parents Government of their Children: