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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.
3. Consider, that Practised Sacramental Symbols from the first Day were so uninterruptedly kept, as was a fuller proof of the Fact than the bare Writings. 1. All their Males from the Promise to Abraham, were constantly Circumcised (save in the Wilderness Travels) and are to this Day. 2. From the very Night that the First-Born were killed in Egypt, and they driven hastily out; they yearly continued the Eating of the Passover with unleavened Bread, as in a hasting posture. 3. Since the Law given in the Wilderness, they constantly used the Sacrifices, the Oblations, the Tabernacle, the Priesthood and Ceremonies as that Law prescribed them. And the National constant use of these was an ascertaining Tradition of the matters of Fact which were their cause. 4. Yea, so tenacious were they of this Law, that (as they taught the very Syllables of it to their Children, and kept in the Ark the very Tables of Stone that had the Ten Commandments, so) they were Enemies to Christianity because the Christians were against the Gentiles Observation of their Law, and for its abrogation.
3. Consider, that Practised Sacramental Symbols from the first Day were so uninterruptedly kept, as was a fuller proof of the Fact than the bare Writings. 1. All their Males from the Promise to Abraham, were constantly Circumcised (save in the Wilderness Travels) and are to this Day. 2. From the very Night that the First-Born were kill'd in Egypt, and they driven hastily out; they yearly continued the Eating of the Passover with unleavened Bread, as in a hasting posture. 3. Since the Law given in the Wilderness, they constantly used the Sacrifices, the Oblations, the Tabernacle, the Priesthood and Ceremonies as that Law prescribed them. And the National constant use of these was an ascertaining Tradition of the matters of Fact which were their cause. 4. Yea, so tenacious were they of this Law, that (as they taught the very Syllables of it to their Children, and kept in the Ark the very Tables of Stone that had the Ten Commandments, so) they were Enemies to Christianity because the Christians were against the Gentiles Observation of their Law, and for its abrogation.
4. Consider again, that the Matter of Fact, and the Divine Institution is since made certain to us by Christs Testimony.