A26879:394
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.
Accordingly God hath had two sort of Ministers: One sort for Legislation, to Reveal ne• Doctrines and Laws: And such was Moses under the Old Administration, and Christ and his Commissioned Apostles under the New: These wer• Eminent Prophets inspired by God infallibly •• record his Laws, and God attested their Office ⟨p. 75⟩and Work, by Multitudes of Evident uncontrolled Miracles. But the Laws being Sealed, the Second sort of Ministers are only to Teach and Apply these same Laws and Doctrines, and not to reveal New ones: And such were the Priests and Levites under Moses, and all the succeeding Ministers and Bishops of the Churches under Christ and the Apostles, who are the Foundation on which the Church is built. And though all Church Guides may determine of the undetermined Circumstances of Holy things, by the General Laws which God hath given therein: Yet to arrogate a power of making a new Word of God, or a Law that shall suspend our Obedience to his Laws, or any Law for the Universal Church, whether it be by Pope or Council, is treasonable Usurpation of a Government which none but Christ is capable of: And as if one King or Council should claim the Civil Sovereignty of all the Earth (which is most unknown to them.)
Accordingly God hath had two sort of Ministers: One sort for Legislation, to Reveal ne• Doctrines and Laws: And such was Moses unde• the Old Administration, and Christ and his Commissioned Apostles under the New: These wer• Eminent Prophets inspired by God infallibly •• record his Laws, and God attested their Offic• ⟨p. 75⟩and Work, by Multitudes of Evident uncontrolled Miracles. But the Laws being Sealed, the Second sort of Ministers are only to Teach and Apply these same Laws and Doctrines, and not to reveal New ones: And such were the Priests and Levites under Moses, and all the succeeding Ministers and Bishops of the Churches under Christ and the Apostles, who are the Foundation on which the Church is built. And though all Church Guides may determine of the undetermined Circumstances of Holy things, by the General Laws which God hath given therein: Yet to arrogate a power of making a new Word of God, or a Law that shall suspend our Obedience to his Laws, or any Law for the Universal Church, whether it be by Pope or Council, is treasonable Usurpation of a Government which none but Christ is capable of: And as if one King or Council should claim the Civil Soveraignty of all the Earth (which is most unknown to them.)