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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. 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 ⟨p. 38⟩certain Testimony of God's Spirit. And this Testimony consisteth of these several parts: I. The foregoing Testimony of the Spirit by all the Prophesies of the Old Testament, and the Typical Prefigurations; which became a fuller proof than before, when they were seen all to be fulfilled in Christ: Yet many were fulfilled before. When Abraham had no Child, he was promised the Multiplication of his Seed, and that all Nations should be blessed therein, Gen. 12. 2. & 13. 16. & 15. 5. & 17. 2. & 18. 11, 12. The 400 Years of their abode in Egypt and Canaan before were foretold and punctually fulfilled, Gen. 15. 13, 14. Ex. 12. 31, 32. So was Jacob's Prophecy of Judah's Sceptre, Gen. 42. 8, 9, 10. And Joseph's dreams: And verily Balaam's last Prophecy was marvellous; who when he had blessed Israel and foretold their Victories, foretold also the Sceptre of David and Christ, and the success of the Assyrians, and after that of Chittim against the Hebrews themselves, Numb. 24. And who seeth not the fulfilling of the terrible Prophecy of Moses against the Jews,