A26879:1761
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. 10. But why may not many Wives be permitted now as well as then?
A. 1. No man can either dispense with Gods Laws, or forgive sin against them, but God himself. If he forbear men in a sin, that doth not justify it. 2. If a few men and many Women were cast upon a Wilderness, or sent to plant it by Procreation, the case were liker the Israelites, where the Men were oftener killed by Wars and Gods Judgments than the Women: But with us there is no pretence for the like Polygamy; but it would confound and disquiet Families.
A. 1. No man can either dispense with Gods Laws, or forgive sin against them, but God himself. If he forbear men in a sin, that doth not justifie it. 2. If a few men and many Women were cast upon a Wilderness, or sent to plant it by Procreation, the case were liker the Israelites, where the Men were ofter kill'd by Wars and Gods Judgments than the Women: But with us there is no pretence for the like Polygamy; but it would confound and disquiet Families.
If one should make a difficult case of it, whether a Prince that hath a Barren Wife may not take another, ⟨p. 329⟩for the safety of a Kingdom, when it is in notorious danger of falling into the hands of a destroyer (as Adams own Sons and Daughters lawfully married each other because there were no others in the World,) this would be no excuse, where no such public notorious necessity can be pleaded.
If one should make a difficult case of it, whether a Prince that hath a Barren Wife may not take another, ⟨p. 329⟩