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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. It is so: And as it is this that must Rule and Judge the Church, so we have to us fuller proof of this than of the Old Testament: Because that the narrowness of the Jews Country in comparison of the Christian World, and the many Thousand Years distance, and a Language whose Phrase and Proverbial speeches, and the very sense of the common words of it, must needs make it more unknown to us than the Language that the Gospel is Recorded in. And it is not the least proof of the Truth of the Old Testament, that it is attested and confirmed by the New.
A. It is so: And as it is this that must Rule and Judge the Church, so we have to us fuller proof of this than of the Old Testament: Because that the narrowness of the Iews Countrey in comparison of the Christian World, and the many Thousand Years distance, and a Language whose Phrase and Proverbial speeches, and the very sence of the common words of it, must needs make it more unknown to us than the Language that the Gospel is Recorded in. And it is not the least proof of the Truth of the Old Testament, that it is attested and confirmed by the New.
Q. 13. Will you first tell me, How the Apostles and that first Age were sure that the Gospel of Christ was the very Word of God?
A. Here I must first tell you that the great Mystery of the Blessed Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Ghost, being One God, is made necessary to us to be believed, not only as to the Eternal unsearchable Inexistence, but specially for the Knowledge of Gods three great sorts of Works on Man: That is, As our Creator, and the God of Nature; as our Redeemer, and the God of Governing and and reconciling Grace; and as our Sanctifier, and the Applier and Perfecter of all to fit us for Glory. And so the Son as Redeemer, is the way to the Father, (to know him and his Love, and be reconciled to him:) And the Holy Ghost is the Witness of the Son. The proof therefore of the Gospel of Christ in one word is the Holy Ghost; that is, the