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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.
5. And one of the greatest motives of all, for your keeping them long enough at home, is, that you will thereby have time to judge whether they are like to become fit for the Ministry or not: Oh, how many good men send Plagues into the Church, by devoting unproved Lads to the Ministry, hoping that God will hereafter give them Grace, and make them fit, who never promised it? When you send them at fifteen or sixteen years of Age to the University, from under your own eye, you are unlikely to know what they will prove, unless it be some few that are very early sanctified by Grace; and when they have been a few years at the University, be they never so unmeet, they will thrust themselves into the Ministry, and (miserable men) for a Benefice take the charge of Souls; whereas if you will keep them with you till twenty years of Age, you may see what they are like to prove, and dispose of them accordingly.
If you say, They will lose the advantage of their Degrees, it's an Objection▪ unfit for a Christians ⟨image 5⟩mouth; will you prefer Names, and airy Titles before Wisdom, Piety, and mens Salvation and the Churches good? must they go out of their way for a Peacocks feather, when they are in a Race as for Life or Death?
If you say, They will lose the advantage of their Degrees, it's an Objection▪ unfit for a Christians ⟨image 5⟩mouth; will you prefer Names, and aiery Titles before Wisdom, Piety, and mens Salvation and the Churches good? must they go out of their way for a Peacocks feather, when they are in a Race as for Life or Death?