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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. Each have their proper Work and End, which none of the other can forbid. Self-Government is the Reasonable management of our own Faculties and actions in obedience to God, for our own Salvation. And no King or other can take this from us: And if they forbid us any necessary duty to God, or necessary Means of our Salvation, they do it without Authority, and are not to be therein obeyed.
A Husbands power to govern his Wife, is for the ⟨p. 25⟩necessary Ends of their Relation, which the King hath no power to forbid. A Parents power to rule his Children, is for the Necessary Education of them for the welfare of Soul and Body; and the King hath no power to forbid it. Should he forbid Parents to feed their Children, or teach them Gods Laws, or to choose for them Orthodox fit Tutors, Pastors, and Church-Communion where God is lawfully worshipped; and should he command the Children to use the contrary, it is all Null and powerless.
But it belongeth to the Magistrate only (though not to destroy any of the three former Governments, which are all before his in Nature and Time, yet) to Govern them all, by directing the exercise of them in lawful things to the common good.