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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. All Truths are Truths, which is, to be equally True in themselves: And so if by certainty you mean nothing but infallible Truth, every Truth is so certain; and all Gods words are True: But if by [certain] you mean that which is so evident to us that we may our selves be fully certain of the Truth, so the parts of Gods word have different degrees of Certainty. We suppose false Translations and false Printings are none of Gods Word: Nor the Words of Satan or fallible men recited in the Bible, save only the historical Assertion that such words were spoken by them. But that which is Gods Word indeed, is none of it so far void of proof, but that we may come to a certainty that it's true: And if we had equal evidence that every word is Gods Word, we should have equal Evidence that all is true. For that God cannot Lie, is the foundation Truth of all our certainty. But God did not Reveal every Truth in the Bible with equal evidencing attestation from Heaven. Some of them much more concern us than others, and therefore were more fully sealed and attested.n
- nHeb. 7. 22. & 9. 15, 16, 17, 18. 9. 13. & 8. 10. & 10. 16. Matth. 4.
Q. 8. How are we sure of the Law that was given ⟨p. 33⟩to Adam, and that he sinned, as is written, and had after a pardoning Law.
A. 1. The Law of Nature given him is yet Gods common Law to the World, saving the strictness of it as a Condition of Life. 2. The fall of Man hath too full proof in all the pravity of Mankind from the Birth. 3. The Pardoning Act is evident in the Execution, God giveth all Men Mercy contrary to their deserts, and useth none in the utmost rigour. 4. The notorious Enmity between Christ and Satan, and their Seeds, through all Ages and Places of the World doth prove the Sentence, and the Law of Grace. 5. The universal Curse or Punishment on Mankind, showeth somewhat of the Cause. 6. The Tradition of Sacrificing was so universally received over all the World, as confirmeth to us, that God delivered it to Adam, as a Symbol and a Type of the Grace then promised. 7. But our fullest proof of all that History, is that which after proved the Word that revealed it to us.