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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.
12. Lastly, the Sacred Scriptures, which contain all that God thought needful to be transmitted to Posterity for History and Doctrine, have been most certainly kept and delivered to us; so sure and full is our Tradition.
12. Lastly, the Sacred Scriptures, which contain all that God thought needfull to be transmitted to Posterity for History and Doctrine, have been most certainly kept and delivered to us; so sure and full is our Tradition.
Q. 24. That Christianity hath been propagated none can doubt: But how are we sure that those Christians of the first age did indeed see, or believe that they saw and heard those Miracles?
A. 1. To be a Christian was to be one that believed them. It was half their belief in Christ, and in the Holy Ghost, and so the very Essence of Christianity to believe that Christ wrought his Miracles and rose again, and that the Apostles by the Holy Spirit did work theirs, and that Believers received the Spirit by their Ministry.
2. They had not been made Christians but by these Miracles: They all professed that it was the Gifts of the Spirit that Convinced and Converted them.