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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.
Q. 14. But how few be there that do all this?
A. 1. I shall further answer that anon: None do it in Perfection, but all found Christians do it in Sincerity. 2. But at present, it is the perfection of the Doctrine of Christ, and of the Sacred Scriptures that I am proving: And it is not Mens breaking the Law, that will prove that God made it not.
Q. 15. You have told me of the foregoing Testimony of the Spirit to Christ and the Gospel, and of the Inherent Constitutive Testimony or Proof: Is there any other?
A. Yes, III. There is the Concomitant Testimony, by the Works of Christ: Nicodemus could say, We know that thou art a Teacher come from God, for no Man can do the Works that thou dost, except God were with him, Joh. 3. 2. He cleansed the Lepers with his word, he cast out Devils, he healed the Lame, the Deaf, the Blind, yea that were born Blind; he healed Palsies, Fevers, and all manner of sicknesses with a touch, or a word▪ ⟨p. 43⟩