A26879:299
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.
4. And that while the Apostles lived their Preaching had as much Authority as their Writing: But they being to die, were moved by the Spirit to write that they had preached, that it might be certainly without Change delivered to Posterity to the end of the World; For had it been left only to the Memory of man, it would soon have been variously reported and corrupted.
5. And you must know, that this Scripture is so far from being insufficient as to the Matter of our Faith, as that it containeth not only the Essentials, but the Integrals and useful Accidents of the Gospel; as a complete Body hath every part, and the very Ornament of Hair and Colour. So that a man may ⟨p. 55⟩be a Christian that knoweth not many hundred words in the Scripture, but not unless he know and believe the Essentials of the Gospel.
5. And you must know, that this Scripture is so far from being insufficient as to the Matter of our Faith, as that it containeth not only the Essentials, but the Integrals and useful Accidents of the Gospel; as a compleat Body hath every part, and the very Ornament of Hair and Colour. So that a man may ⟨p. 55⟩be a Christian that knoweth not many hundred words in the Scripture, but not unless he know and believe the Essentials of the Gospel.
6. And you must note therefore, that the foresaid Miracles were wrought primarily to confirm the Gospel, and that they do confirm all the Accidental passages in the Bible but by Consequence, because the same Persons by the same Spirit wrote them.