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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.
CHAP. VII. Of the Christian Religion, what it is, and of the Creed.
Q. 1. Now you have laid so good a Foundation, by showing me the certain Truth of the Gospel, I would better know what Christianity is? and what it is to be a true Christian?
Q. 1. NOw you have laid so good a Foundation, by shewing me the certain Truth of the Gospel, I would better know what Christianity is? and what it is to be a true Christian?
A. First, I must tell you what Religion is i• general, and then what the Christian Religion is▪ Religion is a Word that signifieth either that which is without us, the Rule of our Religion, or tha• which is within us, our conformity to that Rule The Doctrinal Regulating Religion, is the Signification of Gods will, concerning Mans Duty to God, and his Hopes from God. The inward Religion of our Souls, is our Conformity to this revealed regulating Will of God, even our absolute resignation to God as being his own, our absolute subjection to him a• our absolute Sovereign Ruler, and our prevailing chief Love to him as our chief Benefactor, and a• Love and Goodness it self. Thus Religion is ou• Duty to God, and Hope from God.