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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.
A. You must first know what the word signifieth in Common use: To Believe another, Signifieth [T• trust him as True or Trusty, and to Believe a thing, signifieth to Believe that it is True, because a Trusty Person speaketh it.] The Things that you must Believe to be True, are called, The Matter, or Materi• Object of your Faith: The Persons Trustiness tha• you believe or trust to, is called, The formal Object of your Faith, for which you Trust the Person▪ and believe the thing. The Matter is as the Body of Faith, and the Form as its Soul. The Matter which the Church hath believed, hath by Go• had alterations: And to this Day more is reveale• to some than to others. But the formal Reason • your Faith is still and in all the same, even Gods Fidelity, who because of his Perfection cannot Li•b
Q. 2. How may I be sure that God cannot Li• who is under no Law?
A. His Perfection is more than a Law. 1. W see that God who made Man in his own Image and reneweth them to it, making Lying a hate Vice to humane Nature and Conversation: N Man would be counted a Liar: And the bette any Man is, the more he hateth it.