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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. Yea all that were Baptized were before taught this Gospel, by Teachers or Catechizers, who had all but one Gospel, one Faith and Baptism.
3. And they were all tried how they understood the foresaid General words; and therefore they were opened in more words, which we call the CREED; which in Substance and Sense was still the •ame, though two or three words be added since the first forming of it. So that every Christian being instructed by the Gospel, and professing the Essence of it in the Creed and Baptism, we have as many Witnesses that this Gospel was then delivered, as there have been Christians.
3. And they were all tryed how they understood the foresaid General words; and therefore they were opened in more words, which we call the CREED; which in Substance and Sence was still the •ame, though two or three words be added since the first forming of it. So that every Christian being instructed by the Gospel, and professing the Essence of it in the Creed and Baptism, we have as many Witnesses that this Gospel was then delivered, as there have been Christians.
4. And no man doubteth but there have been Ministers as long: And what was a Minister but a Preacher, of this same Gospel, and a Baptizer and Guide of them that Believe it?