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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. 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