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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.
4. And it is the belief of all Christians, that it •s a damnable Sin to add or alter in this Book: And the Book it self so concludeth: Therefore if •ome had agreed so to do, the rest would have detected and decried it. 5. They took this Book •o be the Charter for their Salvation. And therefore would never agree to alter it; when Men keep the Deeds, Evidences, Leases and Charters of their Estates, and Worldly Privileges unaltered.
4. And it is the belief of all Christians, that it •s a damnable Sin to add or alter in this Book: And the Book it self so concludeth: Therefore if •ome had agreed so to do, the rest would have detected and decryed it. 5. They took this Book •o be the Charter for their Salvation. And therefore would never agree to alter it; when Men keep the Deeds, Evidences, Leases and Charters of their Estates, and Worldly Priviledges unaltered.
6. When a few Heretics rose up that forged some new Books, as Apostolical, and rejected some that were such indeed; the Christian Churches condemned and rejected them, and appealed to the Churches that had received the Apostles own Epistles and kept them.
6. When a few Hereticks rose up that forged some new Books, as Apostolical, and rejected some that were such indeed; the Christian Churches condemned and rejected them, and appealed to the Churches that had received the Apostles own Epistles and kept them.
7. The many Heresies that rose up did so divide Men, and set them in cross Interests and Jealousies against each other, that it was impossible for any one Sect to have altered the Scripture, but the rest would have fallen upon them with the loudest Accusations. But all sorts of Adversaries are agreed that these are the same Books.