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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.
I. Some of them deny some Essential Article of Faith or Practice: As the Immortality of the Soul, the Godhead, or Manhood, or Offices of Christ; or the Holy Ghost, or the Scripture, &c.
II. Some of them pretend new Revelations falsely, and set their pretences of the Spirits Inspirations, against the sealed Word of God.
III. Some of them set up an Usurped Power of their own, against the Office, Authority or sufficiency of the said Sealed Scriptures: Pretending that they are Successors to the Apostles, in the Power and Office of making Laws for the Universal Church, and being the Judges of the sense of Scripture, yea and what is to be taken for ⟨p. 74⟩Gods Word, and what not, and Judges of all Controversies about it: Of these, the Papists pretend that the Pope and a General Council, are Supreme visible Governors under Christ of all the Christian World; and that none may appeal from them • God, to Christ, to the Scripture, or to the Day o• Judgment: Others pretend to such a Power i• every Patriarchal, National or Provincial Church▪ And all of them, instead of a humble, helping, guiding Ministry, set up a Church Leviathan, a silencing Abaddon and Apollyon; a destroying Office: Setting up their Usurped power above •• equal in Effect with Gods Word.
III. Some of them set up an Usurped Power of their own, against the Office, Authority or sufficiency of the said Sealed Scriptures: Pretending that they are Successours to the Apostles, in the Power and Office of making Laws for the Universal Church, and being the Judges of the sence of Scripture, yea and what is to be taken for