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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. 4. That is to be afterward explained: But Magistracy, or Civil Government is certainly of Natural Institution, though it is uncertain how God would have governed Man in such Societies by man, if they had not sinned. The Law of Nature teacheth man the necessity of Civil Society, and of Government therein; and therefore obligeth man thereto.
Q. 13. This seemeth to be but the effect of mens own perceived necessity, and so to be but their arbitrary choice.
A. Their Necessity is Natural, and the notice of it is Natural, and the desire of Remedy is natural, and the fitness of Magistracy to its use is natural: Therefore it is the Law of God in Nature that bindeth them to choose and use it: And if any Country should choose to live without Magistracy, they would sin against the Law of Nature, and their own good.
A. Their Necessity is Natural, and the notice of it is Natural, and the desire of Remedy is natural, and the fitness of Magistracy to its use is natural: Therefore it is the Law of God in Nature that bindeth them to choose and use it: And if any Countrey should choose to live without Magistracy, they would sin against the Law of Nature, and their own good.