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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.
CHAP. VIII. Of BELIEVING, what it signifieth in the Creed.
Qu. 1. I Understand by what you have said, that as Mans Soul hath three Powers, the Understanding, the Will, and the Executive: So Religion being but the true qualifying and guidance of these three Powers, must needs consist of three parts. I. Things to be known and believed. II. Things to be Willed, Loved, and Chosen: And III. Things to be Done in the Practice of our Lives: And that the Creed is the Symbol or Sum of so much as is necessary to our Christianity, of the first sort; and the Lords Prayer the Rule and Summary of the second; and the Ten Commandments of the Third.a ⟨p. 78⟩I entreat you therefore first to expound the Cree• to me, and first the first word of it [I Believe] • it belongs to all that followeth.
Qu. 1. I Understand by what you have said, that as Mans Soul hath three Powers, the Understanding, the Will, and the Executive: So Religion being but the true qualifying and guidance of these three Powers, must needs consist of three parts. I. Things to be known and believed. II. Things to be Willed, Loved, and Chosen: And III. Things to be Done in the Practice of our Lives: And that the Creed is the Symbol or Summ of so much as is necessary to our Christianity, of the first sort; and the Lords Prayer the Rule and Summary of the second; and the Ten Commandments of the Third.a