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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. 17. But why was it that Christ forbade some to declare that he was the Christ?
Q. 17. But why was it that Christ forbad some to declare that he was the Christ?
A. Because the time was not come, till the Evidences were given by which it must be proved: It was not a matter to be rashly believed, and taken upon the bare word of himself or any other: That a Man living in a mean Condition was the Son of God, and Saviour, and Lord and Teacher of the World, and the Judge of all Men, was not to be believed without good proof: And the Chief proof was to be from all Christs own Miracles, and his Resurrection, and Ascension, and the great gift of the Holy Ghost, and Tongues and Miracles of the Apostles and other Disciples: And these were not all done or given then: Yet because the ⟨p. 47⟩Jews received Moses and the Prophets, he sometimes showed how they Prophesied of him: Yea, his very Doctrine, whose frame had a self-evidencing Light, was not fully revealed till it was done by the Spirit in the Apostles.r
A. Because the time was not come, till the Evidences were given by which it must be proved: It was not a matter to be rashly believed, and taken upon the bare word of himself or any other: That a Man living in a mean Condition was the Son of God, and Saviour, and Lord and Teacher of the World, and the Judge of all Men, was not to be believed without good proof: And the Chief proof was to be from all Christs own Miracles, and his Resurrection, and Ascension, and the great gift of the Holy Ghost, and Tongues and Miracles of the Apostles and other Disciples: And these were not all done or given then: Yet because the ⟨p. 47⟩Iews received Moses and the Prophets, he sometimes shewed how they Prophesied of him: Yea, his very Doctrine, whose frame had a self-evidencing Light, was not fully revealed till it was done by the Spirit in the Apostles.