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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. God hath by nature made it necessary that ⟨p. 24⟩there be Magistracy; that is, some men in power over Societies to enforce the obedience of Gods own common Laws, and to make their subordinate Laws about undetermined mutable matters to that end, for the honour of God and the Good of the Society.
But, 1. Whether this Government shall be exercised by one or many: 2. And who shall be the Persons, Gods Law hath left undetermined to humane Liberty: The Form and the Persons are chosen, neither by the said persons, nor by the People only, but by the mutual consent and contract of both: 3. And also by this contract the Degree of power and order of the exercise may be Stated and limited: But for all that, when humane consent hath chosen the persons, the essential Power of Governing in Subordination to Gods Laws, floweth (not from man, but) immediately from Gods Law of Nature.
Q. 15. But what if these sorts of Government prove cross to one another; and Reason commandeth one thing, an Husband another, a Parent another, and the Magistrate another; which must be obeyed?