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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. Experience assureth us that there is no hope of any great Cure of this, by the common helps of Nature and humane Reason: For it is that Reason that is diseased, and blinded, and therefore unapt to cure it self, as an Infant or Fool is to teach himself. And as Philosophers are a small part of the World (for few will be at the cost of getting such knowledge) so they are woefully Dark themselves in the greatest things, and of a Multitude of Sects, contradicting one another, and few of them have Hearts and Lives that are answerable to that which they teach others; and the wisest confess that they must expect few Approvers, much less Followers▪ And every Mans own experience tells him, how hard it is to Inform the Judgment about Holy things, and to conform the Will to them, and to Reform the life to a Holy and Heavenly State.g
2. Experience assureth us that there is no hope of any great Cure of this, by the common helps of Nature and humane Reason: For it is that Reason that is diseased, and blinded, and therefore unapt to cure it self, as an In•ant or Fool is to teach himself. And as Philosophers are a small part of the World (for few will be at the cost of getting such knowledge) so they are wofully Dark themselves in the greatest things, and of a Multitude of Sects, contradicting one another, and few of them have Hearts and Lives that are answerable to that which they teach others; and the wisest confess that they must expect few Approvers, much less Followers▪ And every Mans own experience tells him, how hard it is to Inform the Iudgment about Holy things, and to conform the Will to them, and to Reform the life to a Holy and Heavenly State.g