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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. 1. Consider that they were written by Moses to that very People who are said to see them. *And if one should now write to us English-men, that God brought us out of another Land by Ten such public Miracles, as the Frogs, the Flies, the Lice, the Darkness, the Waters turned Blood, the Death of their Cattle, and of all their first Born, that he opened the Sea and brought us through it on Foot, that he opened Rocks, fed us with Manna, rained Quails for a Months food, spake from a flaming Mount, and opened the Earth to swallow up Rebels, &c. when we know all this to be false, would not all Men deride and abhor the Reporter? Would any of us receive a Law, and that of such operous, numerous, costly Services, by the Motive of such a report as this?
A. 1. Consider that they were written by Moses to that very People who are said to see them. *And if one should now write to us English-men, that God brought us out of another Land by Ten such publick Miracles, as the Frogs, the Flies, the Lice, the Darkness, the Waters turned Blood, the Death of their Cattel, and of all their first Born, that he opened the Sea and brought us through it on Foot, that he opened Rocks, fed us with Manna, rained Quails for a Months food, spake from a flaming Mount, and opened the Earth to swallow up Rebells, &c. when we know all this to be false, would not all Men deride and abhorr the Reporter? Would any of us receive a Law, and that of such operous, numerous, costly Services, by the Motive of such a report as this?