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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. 2. Now what is the Christian Religion?
A. The Christian Religion as Doctrinal, is, The Revelation of Gods will concerning his Kingdom as our Redeemer;] or the Redeeming and saving sinful miserable Man by Jesus Christ.
A. The Christian Religion as Doctrinal, is, The Revelation of Gods will concerning his Kingdo• as our Redeemer;] or the Redeeming and savin• sinful miserable Man by Jesus Christ.
And the Christian Religion as it is in us, is [Th• true Conformity of our Understanding, Will, an• Practice to this Doctrine] or [The true Belief o• the Mind, the Thankful Love and Consent of th• ⟨p. 71⟩Will, and the sincere Obedience of our Lives, to God as our Reconciled Father in Christ, and to Jesus Christ as our Saviour, and to the Holy Ghost as our Sanctifier, to deliver us from the guilt and power of Sin, from the Flesh, the World and the Devil, from the revenging Justice of God, and from everlasting Damnation; giving us here a Union with Christ, the Pardon of our Sins, and Sanctifying Grace, and hereafter everlasting heavenly Glory.a