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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.
The Sum of all that is said, is This: I. If any History in the world be sure, the History of the Gospel is sure. II. And if the History be sure, the Doctrine must needs be sure. III. The continued Evidences: 1. In the Holiness of the Doctrine: And 2. In the Holiness of all true serious Believers, are a standing proof of both, as the Miracles were to all the beholders, who did not Blaspheme the Holy Ghost.
The Summ of all that is said, is This: I. If any History in the world be sure, the History of the Gospel is sure. II. And if the History be sure, the Doctrine must needs be sure. III. The continued Evidences: 1. In the Holiness of the Doctrine: And 2. In the Holiness of all true serious Believers, are a standing proof of both, as the Miracles were to all the beholders, who did not Blaspheme the Holy Ghost.
Q. 32. But how comes it to be so hard then to the most to become serious Believers and Godly, when the Evidence is so clear?
A. A Blind, Dead, Worldly, Fleshly Heart doth undispose them, and they will not Consider such things, nor use the means.