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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. 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.
Yea, they so wilfully sin against Knowledge and Conscience, and will not obey that which they know, that they forfeit further Grace. I will name you briefly many things which every Mans Natural Reason might know, and ask you whether you ever knew any Unbeliever that was not false to this Light of Nature.
1. Doth not Sense and Reason tell men, how vile a thing that Flesh is which they prefer before their Souls? 2. Doth it not certify them that they must die, and so that Fleshly Pleasure is short? 3. Doth it not tell them of the Vanity and Vexation of this World? 4. And that greatest Prosperity is usually parted with, with greatest sorrow? 5. Doth it not tell them, that Mans Nature can hardly choose but fear what will follow after Death? 6. Doth it not tell them that there is a God that made them, and Ruleth all? 7. And that he is infinitely Great, and Wise, and Good, and therefore should be Obeyed,