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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.
3. To say these three Words [I believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,] without understanding them, was easy, but would make no true Christians: Therefore if we had never read more of the Apostles Practice, we might justly conclude that those inspired Teachers, before they Baptized Men at Age, taught them the meaning of those three Articles, and brought them accordingly to Confess their Faith: And this is the Creed. And though a Man might speak his Profession in more or various Words, the Matter was still the same; and the words made necessary, must not be too many, nor left too much at mens liberty to alter, lest corruption should Creep into the Common Faith. For the Baptismal Confession was the very Symbol, Badge or Test, by which all Christians were visibly to pass for Christians: And as Christianity must be a known certain thing, so must its Symbol be.
3. To say these three Words [I believe in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,] without understanding them, was easie, but would make no true Christians: Therefore if we had never read more of the Apostles Practice, we might justly conclude that those inspired Teachers, before they Baptized Men at Age, taught them the meaning of those three Articles, and brought them accordingly to Confess their Faith: And this is the Creed. And though a Man might speak his Profession in more or various Words, the Matter was still the same; and the words made necessary, must not be too many, nor left too much at mens liberty to alter, lest corruption should Creep into the Common Faith. For the Baptismal Confession was the very Symbol, Badge or Test, by which all Christians were visibly to pass for Christians: And as Christianity must be a known certain thing, so must its Symbol be.
4. And infallible historical Tradition assureth us, that accordingly ever since the Apostles days, before any adult were Baptized, they were Catechized, and brought to understand and profess these same Articles of the Faith. And if the Greeks and the Latins used not the same Words, they used Words of the same Signification (two or three words being added since.)
4. And infallible historical Tradition assureth us, that accordingly ever since the Apostles dayes, before any adult were Baptized, they were Catechized, and brought to understand and profess these same Articles of the Faith. And if the Greeks and the Latines used not the same Words, they used Words of the same Signification (two or three words being added since.)