A26879:1812
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.
2. The Laws about such restraint of Marriage are Laws of Order: And therefore bind when • der is necessary for the thing ordered; but not wh• it destroyeth the good of the thing ordered, whi• is its End. Therefore Incest is unlawful out of • cases of Necessity; but to Adams Sons and Daug• ters it was a Duty: And all the Children of No• three Sons must needs marry either their own B• theirs and Sisters, or the Children of their Faith Brethren, which moved Lo•s Daughters to do w• they did.
2. The Laws about such restraint of Marriag• are Laws of Order: And therefore bind when • der is necessary for the thing ordered; but not wh• it destroyeth the good of the thing ordered, whi• is its End. Therefore Incest is unlawfull out of • cases of Necessity; but to Adams Sons and Daug• ters it was a Duty: And all the Children of No• three Sons must needs marry either their own B• thers and Sisters, or the Children of their Fath• Brethren, which moved Lo•s Daughters to do w• they did.
3. In these matters of Order some Laws of Land must be obeyed, though they restrain more than the Laws of God.