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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. I will speak first of the Gospel as such, and then of the Book.
I. You must first know that the Gospel in the ⟨p. 54⟩strict •e•ce, is the History and Doctrine of Christ, necessary to be believed to our Salvation; which is summarily contained in the Baptismal Covenant; For men were Christians when they were Baptized; and they were not adult Christians till they believed the Gospel.
2. You must know, that this Gospel was long preached and believed before it was written: St. Matthew began and wrote eight years after Christs Resurrection, and the Revelation of St. John was written about ninety four years after Christs Birth: Luke's Gospel about fifty, and Marks about fifty nine, and St. Johns about Ninety nine from the Birth of Christ.b
2. You must know, that this Gospel was long preached and believed before it was written: St. Matthew began and wrote eight years after Christs Resurrection, and the Revelation of St. Iohn was written about ninety four years after Christs Birth: Luke's Gospel about fifty, and Marks about fifty nine, and St. Iohns about Ninety nine from the Birth of Christ.b