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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.
This being considered, further think, 1. That All true Christians are Saints: Hypocrites have but the Name and Image: No one soundly and practically believeth in Christ, and consenteth to his Covenant, but he is renewed by the Holy Ghost.
2. Consider how great and excellent a Work this is; to set a Mans Hope and Heart on Heaven; to live by Faith on an unseen World; to place our chiefest Love and Pleasure on God, Holiness and Heaven; to mortify fleshly Lusts, and be above the power of the Love of the World, and Natural Life; to love others as our selves in the measure that God appeareth in them; to love our Enemies, and to make it the work of our Lives to do the most good we can in the World; to bring every true Believe• to this in all Ages and Countries, which neither Princes nor Persuasion alone can do, this is above all Miracles. And this is a standing Witness which every true Christian hath in himself.i
2. Consider how great and excellent a Work this is; to set a Mans Hope and Heart on Heaven; to live by Faith on an unseen World; to place our chiefest Love and Pleasure on God, Holiness and Heaven; to mortifie fleshly Lusts, and be above the power of the Love of the World, and Natural Life; to love others as our selves in the measure that God appeareth in them; to love our Enemies, and to make it the work of our Lives to do the most good we can in the World; to bring every true Believe• to this in all Ages and Countreys, which neither Princes nor Perswafion alone can do, this is above all Miracles. And this is a standing Witness which every true Christian hath in himself.i