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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.
I here bewail it as my great sin against God, that in the Youth of my Ministry, Pride made me often blush with shame for want of Academical Degrees; but usually God will not have us bring our own humane honour to his Service, but fetch honour from him, in faithful serving him: Fringes and Laces must be last set on, when the Garment is made, and not be the ground or Stamen of it. There have been men that have desired their Sons to learn all the Oriental Tongues, and the rare Antiquities and critical applaud•d sort of Learning, not for its own worth, but that they might Preach the Gospel with the advantage of a greater name and honour: And this course hath so taken up and formed such Students into the quality of their Studies, when their Souls should have been taken up with Faith and Love, and Heavenly Desires and Hopes, that it hath overthrown the end to which it was intended, and rendered such Students unfit for the Sacred Ministry, and caused them to turn to other things: When others, ⟨image 7⟩who (as Usher, Bochart, Blondel, &c.) have first taken in a digested Body of saving Truth, have after added these Critical Studies at full maturity, have become rare Blessings to the Church.
I here bewail it as my great sin against God, that in the Youth of my Ministry, Pride made me often blush with shame for want of Academical Degrees; but usually God will not have us bring our own humane honour to his Service, but setch honour from him, in faithful serving him: Fringes and Laces must be last set on, when the Garment is made, and not be the ground or Stamen of it. There have been men that have desired their Sons to learn all the Oriental Tongues, and the rare Antiquities and critical applaud•d sort of Learning, not for its own worth, but that they might Preach the Gospel with the advantage of a greater name and honour: And this course hath so taken up and formed such Students into the quality of their Studies, when their Souls should have been taken up with Faith and Love, and Heavenly Desires and Hopes, that it hath overthrown the end to which it was intended, and rendred such Students unfit for the Sacred Ministry, and caused them to turn to other things: When others, ⟨image 7⟩who (as Usher, Bochart, Blondel, &c.) have first taken in a digested Body of saving Truth, have after added these Critical Studies at full maturity, have become rare Blessings to the Church.