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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.
2. They kept constant Church-meetings; and the use of Languages and other extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit were the ordinary Exercises of those Assemblies; so that they could not be unknown.a
3. It was not a few Apostles only that had this extraordinary Spirit, but in one sort or other the generality of the Persons converted by them: Sometime as the Apostles were Preaching, the Spirit came upon the Hearers, as it did on Cornelius and his Assembly, Act. 10. Usually by the laying on of the Apostles Hands the Holy Ghost was given: And this not only to the sincere Christians, but to ⟨p. 53⟩some unsound Ones that sell away: All that did Miracles in Christ's Name, were not saved.
4. Yea those that accused Christ as casting out Devils by Devils, might have seen their own Children cast them out, Matt. 12. And those that were seduced, and quarrelled with the Apostles, could not deny but they themselves had received the Spirit by their Preaching: Paul appealeth to themselves when the Galatians were perverted,