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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.
Q. 28. Is this it that is called, The witness of the Spirit in us?
A. Besides all the foresaid Witnessings of the Spirit without us, the Spirit within us, 1. Causeth us to understand and believe the Scripture. 2. Maketh ⟨p. 65⟩it powerful to Sanctify us. 3. And therein giveth us a connaturality and special Love to it, and sense of its inherent Divine Excellency; which is writing it in our Hearts. 4. And causeth us to live by it. 5. And confuteth the Objections made against it. 6. And causeth us to fetch our comfort from it; in a Word, Imprinteth the Image of it on us: and this is the inward Witness.
A. Besides all the foresaid Witnessings of the Spirit without us, the Spirit within us, 1. Causeth us to understand and believe the Scripture. 2. Maketh ⟨p. 65⟩it powerful to Sanctifie us. 3. And therein giveth us a connaturality and special Love to it, and sense of its inherent Divine Excellency; which is writing it in our Hearts. 4. And causeth us to live by it. 5. And confuteth the Objections made against it. 6. And causeth us to fetch our comfort from it; in a Word, Imprinteth the Image of it on us: and this is the inward Witness.
Q. 29. But when we see so much Ignorance, Wickedness, Confusion and Cruelty, Pride, Lust and Worldliness among Christians, and how they live in malicious tearing one another, how can we know that their Goodness is any proof of the truth of Christianity?